Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-04-06
Books mentioned on Selects: All the Gold In Fort Knox: Meh
When Fort Knox was built in the 1930s to house America’s gold supply, it was billed as an impenetrable, impregnable, don’t-even-think-of-trying vault. But as the world has moved further away from gold, the stockpile’s lost a bit of its luster.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Johann Gutenberg and his Bible
Johann Gutenberg and his Bible by Janet Thompson Ing is a scholarly examination of the historical production and significance of the famed Gutenberg Bible, printed on the revolutionary press of Johann Gutenberg.
Discussed“Um, it's actually served as the site, the storehouse for some like truly valuable stuff, um, like the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, um, the Gettysburg Address, a Gutenberg Bible, um, the Magna Carta, actually during World War II, England's like, hey, can you hang on to this for us, 'cause the Germans are really like up our”
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