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About $22 Billion In Gold, Diamonds, Jewels Found In Indian Temple

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About $22 Billion In Gold, Diamonds, Jewels Found In Indian Temple

"In Southern India a story that sounds like the plot line of a Hollywood adventure is unfolding. Over the past week, on orders from the country's Supreme Court, a panel has found a treasure estimated to be worth $22 billion in the underground vaults of a Hindu temple in Trivandrum, India."

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"The vaults had not been opened in about 150 years and the treasure spans some 500 years. India's Supreme Court ordered that the vaults of the temple be inventoried after a man filed a suit that worried about how the trust was caring for the riches."

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7 responses to “About $22 Billion In Gold, Diamonds, Jewels Found In Indian Temple”

  1. Norman Costa

    A billion here. A billion there. Pretty soon we will be talking about real money.

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  2. Dean C. Rowan

    My sole visit, many years ago, to India was to Trivandrum, where I lost my wallet.

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  3. Sujatha

    How many years ago was this, Dean? Apart from the trauma of the lost wallet, how did you find Trivandrum?

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  4. Ruchira

    Dean, you’ve been to India and never told me?
    The wallet you lost is part of the $22 billion booty. The good folks of Trivandrum donated it to the Padmanabhaswamy Temple!

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  5. Dean C. Rowan

    Sorry, it was only a tepid joke, the implicit punch line being that the $22B was in my wallet. Heck, I haven’t even been to Indiana.

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  6. Ruchira

    Dean, I ought to know you by now and should have cottoned on to that one. Actually, it was a pretty good joke.

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  7. Sujatha

    My being bamboozled by Dean’s ‘tepid joke’ is way funnier :D

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