Treasure (from Greek θησαυρός - thēsauros, meaning "treasure store",romanized as thesaurus) is a concentration of riches, often those that originate from ancient history, considered lost and/or forgotten until being rediscovered. Some jurisdictions legally define what constitutes treasure, such as in the British Treasure Act 1996.
The phrase "blood and treasure" or "lives and treasure" has been used to refer to the human and monetary costs associated with massive endeavours such as war that expend both.
Searching for hidden treasure is a common theme in legend; treasure hunters do exist, and can seek lost wealth for a living.
A buried treasure is an important part of the popular beliefs surrounding pirates. According to popular conception, pirates often buried their stolen fortunes in remote places, intending to return for them later (often with the use of treasure maps).
There are three well known stories that helped popularize the myth of buried pirate treasure: "The Gold-Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Wolfert Webber" by Washington Irving and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. They differ widely in plot and literary treatment but all are derived from the William Kidd legend. Stevenson's Treasure Island was directly influenced by Irving's "Wolfert Webber", Stevenson saying in his preface "It is my debt to Washington Irving that exercises my conscience, and justly so, for I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther.. the whole inner spirit and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters.. were the property of Washington Irving."
A church treasure (German: Kirchenschatz) is the collection of historical art treasures belonging to a church, usually a monastery (monastery treasure), abbey, cathedral. Such "treasure" is usually held and displayed in the church's treasury or in a diocesan museum. Historically the highlight of church treasures was often a collection of reliquaries.
As a result of gifts and the desire to acquire sacred artifacts, many churches over the centuries gathered valuable and historic collections of altar plate, illuminated manuscripts of liturgical or religious books, as well as vestments, and other works of art or items of historical interest. Despite iconoclasm, secularism, looting, fire, the enforced sale of treasure in times of financial difficulty, theft and other losses, much of this treasure has survived or has even been repurchased. Many large churches have been displaying their riches to visitors in some form for centuries.
Treasure is a limited edition compilation album by Holly Cole Trio. It was released in Canada in 1998 on Alert Records. It is a collection of "Hits and Previously Unreleased Tracks" from 1989-1993.
[*]Previously Unreleased [#]New Recording
Mallory is an English surname. Spelling variants include Mallary, Mallery, Malorie, Mallorie, and Mallorey. Mallory is also a given name derived from the surname.
Mallory is an English surname and given name.
Mallory may also refer to:
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A fraternal alternate of Quinn Mallory was a main character during the fifth and last season of the show Sliders played by Robert Floyd. This version of Quinn Mallory is usually just called Mallory but sometimes he is credited or referred to as Quinn 2 or Quinn Mallory (2).
The Quinn from Earth Prime was merged with this fraternal alternate of Quinn Mallory by Dr. Oberon Geiger as a science experiment. This version of Quinn Mallory, along with a scientist Dr. Diana Davis, joined the sliders (who were Rembrandt Brown and Maggie Beckett at the time) in order to find a way to unmerge the two Quinns.
This Quinn Mallory is not a genius and not a scientist, as the Quinn Mallory who grew up on Earth Prime was. He was used as a guinea pig for Dr. Geiger's experiments. Mallory had muscular dystrophy and lived in a wheelchair for a while, until Dr. Geiger cured him by extracting some DNA from an unaffected alternate of Quinn Mallory and merging it with Mallory.
Mallory never liked the other Quinn Mallory being merged inside of him and wanted him to be removed.