Benjamin "Ben" Franklin Gates is a member of a family of treasure hunters. At a young age, his grandfather tells him the legend of the hidden treasures of the Founding Fathers of the USA. His grandfather teaches him that the men and women of American history buried the treasure somewhere within the country and have hidden highly cryptic clues throughout various lands within the nation's borders.
Years later, after a dead-end in the family's momentum of discovery and generations of failed attempts to progress the research, the Gates family has publicly acquired a reputation of conspiracy theorists who profess myth. Ben, however, believes he has found a new lead to solve the mystery of the treasure, which will allow him to prove that his family's legacy isn't a joke. One of the clues lead him to believe a map is on the back of the Declaration of Independence. In a race to find the historical discovery and to preserve it in a national museum, Ben must outpace the villainous plans of his former associate-turned-enemy named Ian Howe. Meanwhile, the FBI grows suspicious of his actions. Upon learning that Ian intends to take the document and find the treasure for personal gain, Ben decides to steal the file himself in order to preserve it, as well as the national treasure.
Several years since Benjamin "Ben" Franklin Gates found the Knight's Templar national treasure and gained fame and wealth from a self-imposed minimal 1% finder's fee, the Gates family finds themselves once again defending their family name.
The series follows a Hispanic Latina-American lead character named Jess Valenzuela, who is a 20-year-old DREAMer who sets off on an exploration to discover the mystery of her family history, and with the help of her friends seeks to recover historical lost treasure. The co-writers additionally serve as creators, and executive producers, on the series, while Jerry Bruckheimer also serves as a producer. The project is a joint-venture production between Jerry Bruckheimer Television and ABC Signature.[16]
More than 140 years later, famed treasure hunter Ben Gates tells Thomas' story at a Civilian Heroes conference. Black market dealer Mitch Wilkinson produces the page fragment, with Thomas Gates' name next to those of Mary Surratt and Dr. Samuel Mudd. The public believes Thomas helped kill Lincoln, and Ben and his father Patrick set out to disprove it. Using spectral imaging, Ben discovers traces of the cipher on the diary page, that, when solved using the keyword, points to the smaller Statue of Liberty in Paris. Traveling there, Ben and his friend Riley Poole discover an engraving referencing the Resolute desks. They head to London, reluctantly recruiting Ben's estranged girlfriend, Dr. Abigail Chase, along the way. Ben and Abigail sneak a peek at the Buckingham Palace desk, and obtain a Pre-Columbian carved plank from a secret drawer. Mitch, who had secretly cloned Patrick's cell phone in order to track Ben's whereabouts, pursues the trio, and eventually obtains the wooden plank, but not before Ben manages to photograph it.
Ben manipulates the President's birthday party to be hosted at Mount Vernon to convince the President to explore a secret tunnel with him. There, Ben activates a secret sliding door, separates the President from the U.S. Secret Service, and asks him about the book, while safely leading the President to freedom at the other end of the tunnel. The President sympathetically warns Ben that his actions, while innocently meant, will be interpreted as attempted kidnapping. He then reveals the book is hidden in a safe at the Library of Congress. Pursued by the FBI, Ben, Abigail, and Riley manage a brief look at the book. They find a photograph of the missing plank and an entry by Calvin Coolidge. He found the plank in 1924, translated it, had it destroyed, and commissioned Gutzon Borglum to carve Mount Rushmore, to hide evidence of a hidden treasure nearby.
After consulting Emily about the glyphs, Ben, Riley, Abigail, and Patrick head to Mount Rushmore. They meet Mitch and Emily there, as Mitch kidnapped her. Mitch already has acquired, memorized, and destroyed the final clue, forcing the group to bring him along. He helps the group find the entrance of a cave full of booby traps. After briefly getting separated, the group finds a pit containing Cíbola, a Native American city of gold. An ancient dam fails, and it becomes clear one of the group must sacrifice themselves in the quickly flooding cave to hold open the door for the others. Ben initially does so, but Mitch takes over when Ben is knocked away, and he begs Ben to give him posthumous credit for finding the treasure.
Ben and the rest return to the surface, where the President prevents Ben from being arrested by claiming Ben saved him from the tunnel's accidental closing. Ben ensures that Mitch receives joint credit for the discovery, and clears Thomas Gates' name by proving that Booth had consulted him about the treasure, not the assassination. Emily and Patrick lead an expedition of Cíbola while Ben rekindles his relationship with Abigail.
For the first time on a Vera Lynn collection, the album features over 40 top 25 chart hits from 1940 - 1945, including five #1 hits, three previously unreleased songs, one previously unissued alternative take and many recordings which have been completely re-mastered for this release, using special state of the art audio transfer techniques from the original un-played source.
The National Treasure series centers on Jess, (Lisette Alesis), a young, brilliant and resourceful DREAMer who embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to uncover the truth about her family's mysterious past and save a lost Pan-American treasure.
This series is in the spirit of the National Treasure movie franchise and follows Lisette Alexis (Total Eclipse), a naturally inquisitive and talented puzzle-solving Latinx youth, on an adventure to uncover her truth and to save a lost pan-American treasure in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The series also stars Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago) as a billionaire, black-market antiquities expert and treasure hunter who transformed herself from a penniless orphan to a shrewd, stylish businesswoman and adventurer.
Margaret MacMillan, PhD, Professor of International History, University of Oxford, and Xerox Foundation Distinguished Scholar, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins SAIS, writes:
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Timed to commemorate the centenary of Fred Meijer's birth and to celebrate his role as one of America's foremost patrons of the arts, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park is honored to announce A National Treasure: Fred Meijer, His Collection and Legacy. Opening on February 1, 2019, this exclusive exhibition is a celebration of Meijer's desire to build a world-class sculpture collection. This exhibition will run through August 25, 2019 and will display eleven different 'chapters', each based around original works of art from Meijer Gardens' permanent collection as well as exclusive loans from sculptors and galleries that Meijer knew and admired. In addition, the exhibition will debut a series of important recent acquisitions to Meijer Gardens' permanent collection.
Partie de bateau or Canotier au chapeau haut de forme painted by Gustave Caillebotte between 1877 and 1878 and presented at the fourth Impressionist exhibition in 1879 has joined the collections of the Musée d'Orsay. A major work by the artist, but also, by its subject, its workmanship and its history, of the Impressionist movement, it was classified as a national treasure in 2020 by the Ministry of Culture. Thanks to the exclusive sponsorship of LVMH, its acquisition will enrich the Musée d'Orsay's Impressionist collection with a masterpiece that has no equivalent in French public collections.
By its iconography, its style and its history, Partie de bateau appears as one of the major works of the artist, and even of the impressionist painting of the 1870s. Caillebotte takes up a subject characteristic of naturalism, the emergence of a society of leisure and more particularly here the development of water sports, treated by Thomas Eakins in the United States or, in France, by Claude Monet, Édouard Manet or Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The theme was very attractive to Caillebotte, who himself practiced rowing. This familiarity with the subject led the artist to make the sporting activity and the character of the rower in full effort, seen in "close-up", the main subject of his painting, unlike his elders who made the motif one of several elements of the landscape (Monet, Renoir) or depicted the rowers before or after the action (Manet). Owned by the artist and later by his brother Martial and his heirs, Partie de bateau has remained in France, in the family collections, until today. This painting of exceptional quality is of major patrimonial interest.
The acquisition of Partie de bateau, classified as a national treasure in 2020 by the Ministry of Culture, fills a real gap and enriches the collection with a masterpiece, without equivalent in French public collections. Although it is generally accepted that the Musée d'Orsay's impressionist collection is one of the most important in the world, the French national collections only include thirteen works by Gustave Caillebotte, despite recent additions. Until now, the Musée d'Orsay had no works by the artist from the period dedicated to the subject of water sports, so emblematic and constitutive of the Impressionist aesthetic. Partie de bateau now joins the Vue de Toits [View of Roofs], also exhibited by the painter at the 1879 Impressionist exhibition. The entry of this work into the national collections thus significantly changes the face of the museum's impressionist collection, which was rich but also largely dependent on the tastes of its major donors (Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, Isaac de Camondo, Antonin Personnaz, etc.), who were not collectors of the artist.
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