Irish folklore has it that there is a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow.

Tom filled the pot with water.

The Italian word pignatta means fragile pot.

There's a lid for every pot.

There is a lid for every pot.

She put new soil in the flower pot.

Polish authorities initiate a search for a train containing Nazi gold.

Brides are commonly draped from head to toe in gold.

The princess gave her lover a sabre covered with gold.

The princess gave her lover a sabre covered with gold.

The country is also rich in gold, copper and other minerals.

This would be their first and last album with Goodhand Tait.

You're paying for the bling, that they're encrusted with gold and platinum.

Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

Alternatively, are they willing to face the pain of internal devaluation, a process that failed under the gold standard and is failing under the euro?

Polish loggers have begun cutting down trees over an underground tunnel where, according to some reports, a train containing gold from the Third Reich is located.

The Romans had to debase their coins, owing to the continuous loss of gold to India. The Spanish empire flooded the world with silver coins as it paid for its many wars.

They could not simultaneously debase the currency and back it with gold at a fixed rate.

The Romans had to debase their coins, owing to the continuous loss of gold to India.

Many have turned to weapons, slave, or gold trafficking some are demanding independence.

One hundred years later, our trading consists of raw materials, mainly gold, timber and cocoa.

The leaden coffin was covered by a rich purple pall, on which was embroidered in gold the Canterville coat of arms.

On August 31, the Governor for Poland's Lower Silesia Province, Tomasz Smolarz, suggested that new evidence about the existence of a train containing gold were no more convincing than previous claims.

And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other upon the six steps there was not the like made in any kingdom.

In Taiwan, outgoing President Chen Shui bian is stirring the independence pot, knowing that the Olympic spotlight will limit Beijing s ability to respond forcefully.

However, this idea is more romantic than real, as a rooster can and will crow at any time of the day.

Indeed, US and global equities have vastly outperformed gold since the sharp rise in gold prices in early 2009.

Three days earlier, Poland's Deputy Minister of Culture, Piotr Zuchowski, stated that local treasure hunters, with a 99 percent degree of certainty , had found the very same train containing gold from the Third Reich that is talked about in the legends.

Some have argued instead that gold s long upward march has been partly driven by the development of new financial instruments that make it easier to trade and speculate in gold.

Their route went through Tadó, a little town very rich in gold, currently part of the department of Chocó, where hundreds of African slaves used to work.

Bretton Woods I collapsed in 1971, when the dollar s peg to gold became untenable, and Bretton Woods II ended in 2008, owing to the misallocation of capital.

In the first, a century ago, confidence was underpinned by gold in the more recent wave of globalization, it depended upon the power of the human intellect to solve policy problems.

Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment you cannot pay for your groceries with it.

The Golden Rule states that over the course of an economic cycle, government can borrow only to invest and not to finance current spending.

There is an analogy to the problems countries faced when they tried to re establish the gold standard after World War I. Until the war, money was backed by gold and could be redeemed at a fixed rate.

He had told his advisers, Get me all the scholars to translate any book they can get their hands onto into Arabic, and I will pay them its weight in gold.

Despite fulfilling his promise of filling one room with gold and two with silver, he was convicted for killing his brother and plotting against Pizarro, and was executed.

Reportedly, some art sales today result in paintings merely being moved from one section of a storage vault to another, recalling how the New York Federal Reserve registers gold sales between national central banks.

Medal hopefuls must go farther, faster, up and over, in their quest for gold, sometimes to the finish, other times back and forth up and down the court.

The first is the Amber House inside of the Tsikevicius Manor House, which houses some 20,000 pieces of Amber, otherwise known as Baltic Gold (some dated at 40 million years before the history of Lithuania began!).

Nor is it clear why investors should stock up on gold if the global economy dips into recession again and concerns about a near depression and rampant deflation rise sharply.

'How would it do to appoint Countess Mary Borisovna, Minister of War? and Princess Vatkovskaya, Chief of the Staff?' said a grey haired old man in a gold embroidered uniform to a tall and beautiful Maid of Honour, in answer to her question about the promotions

Plenty of evidence suggests that we are in something of a golden age for citizen speculation, documentation, and inference that takes shape usually on the Internet and spreads virally around the globe.

But his rather technical discussion (which focused on monetary economics and the gold standard) forged no new consensus among economists, and the news media reported no clear sense of alarm.

Some Europeans suggest that Asian central banks should hold a greater part of their reserves in euros, an echo of the General's unsuccessful attempt to force America to its knees by selling dollars for gold.