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	the money pit
		This is a replica of a strange, engraved porphyry slab found in the money pit in 1803 at a depth of 28 metres.
		They sank a pit 14 feet away from the original Money Pit to a depth of 110 feet and then attempted tunnel toward the treasure.
		Every group failed, probably because by this time the original location of the Money Pit had become confused and because much of the ground beneath the eastern end of Oak Island was a honeycomb of water-filled tunnels.
	website.lineone.net /~dmerrill/html/the_money_pit.html (1810 words)

	The UnMuseum - Oak Island Mystery
		Simeon Lynds visited the money pit that year, was impressed by the story, and formed a company to support the excavation.
		Later, pits were dug to intersect and plug the tunnel on its route to the money pit.
		In addition to the money pit the rest of the island seems to be loaded with old stone markers of various types.
	www.unmuseum.org /oakisl.htm (2716 words)

	The Story of Oak Island
		The next plan was to dig a pit 100 feet or so inland in the hopes of meeting with the water channel underground at which point they could plug the channel.
		Discovered in 1878 about 350 feet east of the Money Pit, the cave-in pit appears to have been a shaft dug out by the designers of the Money Pit perhaps as a ventilation shaft for the digging of the flood tunnel.
		The first was a fragment of a stone bearing inscriptions similar to those found on the inscribed stone discovered at the 90 foot level of the Money Pit.
	www.activemind.com /Mysterious/Topics/OakIsland/story.html (2593 words)

	Oak Island Money Pit
		If I told you that the treasure was buried in a deep pit, you might respond, "Of course, that was it to make sure no one but the pirates found it".
		This theory is based on the evidence of a piece of parchment paper brought up from the pit by one of the treasure hunters.
		This was not too surprising because the Pit was only 500 feet from the coast line and high tide of the ocean was about at the 32 foot level.
	www.mysteriesofcanada.com /Nova_Scotia/oakisland.htm (759 words)

	Money Pit
		"Money isn't important to me. I just want to have a happy life, doing what I want to do." She clearly didn't get it.
		It was youthful vigor and naivete, I suppose, the type of thing we grow out of once we graduate from college and understand the realities of the adult world.
		The term is vastly overused; if they were truly broke, they'd start to look thinner, they'd look pale from selling all their plasma, and you'd notice that every time they came to visit, some sort of valuable had mysteriously disappeared.
	www.thesimon.com /magazine/articles/life_as_a_loser/0396_money_pit.html (923 words)

	The Straight Dope: What's the scoop on the mysterious buried treasure at Oak Island?
		The searchers then dug a couple shafts in between the beach and the money pit in an effort to block the main tunnel.
		In 1897 diggers working in the money pit found a 2-1/2-foot-wide tunnel at 111 feet filled with stone, gravel, and sand, through which seawater flowed.
		Later, while drilling in the pit, searchers found oak and iron at 126 feet, iron at 138 feet, cement (possibly manmade) at 153 feet, and iron again at 171 feet.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a2_441.html (1697 words)

	The Money Pit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Dartmoor is studded with kistvaens which are old oblong burial pits, usually about 3 foot x 2 foot.
		The story attached to this particular one concerns a farmer from the Poundsgate area who by all accounts was a kind and friendly soul.
		Should you be in need of a character transplant The Money Pit can be found at grid reference SX 6817 7384.
	members.aol.com /dartmoorlander/dartmoor/moneypit.htm (326 words)

	Money Pit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Money Pit is the site of numerous unsuccessful excavations on Oak Island in Nova Scotia to recover treasure believed by many to be buried there.
		The Money Pit was the title of a comedy movie made in 1986.
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Money_Pit (106 words)

	Oak Island
		Beneath the beach was a series of five drains, carefully lined with stone and covered with coconut fiber and eel grass, which acted as a filter to prevent the channels from filling with sand.
		Steam pumps were then installed to drain the pit more effectively.But as soon as work began, the boiler of one pump burst and scalded a workman to death.
		People began to suspect that the Money Pit was protected by a long-dead pirate's curse.
	members.tripod.com /~Zomb/OAKISLAN.HTM (2347 words)

	The Oak Island Enigma, by Penn Leary
		On a Saturday night, with the pit excavated to ninety-five feet, soundings were taken by driving an iron rod into the bottom of the hole.
		Next summer the Money Pit, which by this time had collapsed, was re-excavated to thirty-five feet where a jumble of debris blocked further progress.
		The pit was excavated to a hundred and fifty-five feet and strongly timbered, but no chests or cement chamber were to be found.
	home.att.net /~mleary/oakislan.htm (8513 words)

	THE MONEY PIT - DVD
		The party line is that he grabbed the reins on Poltergeist from Tobe Hooper, and, pitting that film's slickness against the rest of Hooper's oeuvre, I'm inclined to believe it.
		The good parts of The Money Pit were executed with this mindset--they evoke the rigged lunacy of Spielberg's 1941, to get more specific.
		This does not hold true of The Money Pit's soundtrack, which is presented in 5.1 DTS and Dolby Digital options of little differentiation.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/moneypit.htm (494 words)

	Iraq: The Money Pit
		Three-quarters of the money will be spent on the military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
		For example, $130 million will go for building 10 irrigation and drainage projects, with no details of what technology will be used, how much money will be spent for labor versus equipment, and whether any funds will be allocated for ongoing maintenance.
		But indications are not good--in fact, the Bush administrations has had to revise its expectations downward first from $20 billion to $10 billion, then downward again to $2 billion, and are now praying for at least $1 billion in donations.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles8/Tomchick_Iraq-Money-Pit.htm (983 words)

	Education money pit - The Washington Times: Commentary - July 07, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		One of the justifications for this socialistic redistribution of education money is the egalitarian objective of assuring the poor get their fair share and supposedly improve their chances of escaping poverty.
		Statistics show no correlation between the amounts of education money spent and a decline in the poverty levels in individual states.
		As the Cato study concludes, the federal government should drop out of education and return the money and power for instructing children to the state and individual communities.
	www.washtimes.com /commentary/20040706-083919-5601r.htm (544 words)

	The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		But he claims that he can save enough money on other parts of the job to make up the difference.
		And one of his employees has offered his personal assurance that the roof won't be neglected — though he admits that in the end it's not his decision, and his boss refuses to put anything in writing.
		Last week Tommy Thompson, secretary of health and human services, tried to allay suspicions about such a raid by offering his personal assurance that the money Medicare has been accumulating to care for the baby boomers will not be diverted into other uses — even though Mr.
	www.pkarchive.org /column/31801.html (731 words)

	The Money Pit (1986) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Besides the obvious money troubles that arise while trying to fix this "dream home" the couple (Tom Hanks, Shelley Long) purchase, Shelley Long's character has to try to balance her home struggles, an ex who is wearing down her defenses to his advances and a demanding job as part of an orchestra.
		Even though my friends and I were very young when this movie was playing on the cable movie channels, let alone when it came out in the theater, it still comes up in party conversations, followed by line-quoting and fits of laughter.
		The Money Pit is easy to overlook, but passing it by when you see it on a rental shelf would be a terrible shame.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0091541 (453 words)

	Oak Island Mystery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Buckets and primitive pumps were unable to lower the level as it stood in the pit.
		The water rose in the second pit to the same level as in the first.
		During warm weather bus loads of tourists made the pilgrimage to see the money pit until 1995 when all visiting and trespassing was stopped.
	home.chattanooga.net /~henson3/oak.html (723 words)

	The Money Pit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		View the latest Oak Island Money Pit theories, diagrams and multimedia, and play an active role in research and future digs.
		Simeon Lynds visited the money pit that year, was impressed by the story,...
		In addition to the money pit the rest of the island seems to be loaded with...
	www.equity.loansresources.net /the-money-pit.htm (243 words)

	broadband » News » Your Tax Dollars at Work - The half-billion dollar FBI money-pit
		I hear the money went into RF tags for all the tires on every FBI vehicle so they know the exact moment a terrorist drops thumb tac's on the road.
		Now perhaps their code isn't the greatest that's ever been written; still, it was designed and coded to meet the specs (and _someone_ in the government realm tested and signed off on this stuff).
		No no no...We pay taxes, but as much money as they claim the US is in the whole buy, I must ask again...where the hell are they getting all this money from.
	www.broadbandreports.com /shownews/59040 (2669 words)

	Operation Money Pit
		The 14 actions announced today were part of a cooperative, law enforcement "mini-sweep," named "Operation Money Pit," that focused attention on companies that offer fraudulent business opportunities.
		In its Operation Money Pit actions, the FTC charged three companies -- AmeraPress, Inc., Summit Photographix, Inc., and QX International -- with violations of the FTC Act which prohibits unfair and deceptive practices.
		As part of Operation Money Pit, Attorneys General in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and the Oklahoma Department of Securities filed seven actions in state courts and initiated four additional investigations.
	www.ftc.gov /opa/1998/02/moneypit.htm (1415 words)

	The Red Cross Money Pit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		And it's hard to escape the organization's warning of Armageddon if you don't call in a credit card number or send a check or donate blood (which it resells to the tune of more than $1.5 billion annually, part of its $3 billion in income).
		In Southern California, we have had the spectacle of "drive-by" drop-offs of bags of money at public places such as the Rose Bowl, massively promoted by local media.
		But asking where all the privately collected money will go and how much Red Cross is billing FEMA and the affected states is a legitimate question even if posed by the president of a small relief agency.
	www.warroom.com /asheard/articles/10195/moneypit.html (841 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Avoiding the Money Pit
		Debts, of course, are moneys you owe: house and car payments, loans, credit card debts and other regular debts or payments.
		One way to make this easier is to have money automatically transferred from your paycheck to a savings account.
		As you spend, money is subtracted from that balance until you have none left.
	www.crosswalk.com /family/1135190.html (1444 words)

	Oak Island Secrets; Investigative Files (Skeptical Inquirer March 2000)
		Similarly, the notion that there was a log platform at each ten-foot interval of the pit for a total of nine or eleven platforms, is only supported by later accounts, and those appear to have been derived by picking and choosing from earlier ones so as to create a composite version of the layers.
		Indeed, when in 1803 workers probed the bottom of the Pit with a crowbar and struck what they thought was a treasure chest, their actions recall the Royal Arch degree in which the Secret Vault is located by a sounding blow from a crowbar (Duncan 1972, 263).
		For example, the soft stone, charcoal, and clay found in the Pit (Crooker 1978, 24, 49) are consistent with the Chalk, Charcoal and Clay cited in the Masonic degree of Entered Apprentice as symbolizing the virtues of "freedom, fervency and zeal" (Lester 1977, 60; Hunter 1996, 37).
	www.csicop.org /si/2000-03/i-files.html (4557 words)

	FAQ's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The "Money Pit" itself is not an open shaft.
		The last real work done on the island was in 1995 when a team from Woods Hole visited the island and spent two weeks doing a survey and making suggestions.
		The technology for getting to the bottom of the Money Pit has always been with us...you simply move back far enough away from the 13 foot diameter site and dig a gradually sloping hole.....you can dig as deep as you want...but the expense is in the tens of millions of dollars.
	www.oakislandtreasure.com /new7page.htm (317 words)

	The Money Pit
		Whenever I heard the Money Pit was going to be on TV, I'd race to go watch it.
		We are fortunate to be partnered with the many fine companies, without whose support The Money Pit would not be possible.
		Audio January 12, 2005 -The Money Pit, one of the fastest growing home improvement shows in the country is pleased...
	www.elipsiselectronics.com /6300185249/The_Money_Pit.html (793 words)

	Oak Island Treasure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Compelling of all is their connection with the Holy Land, prompting speculation of untold wealth in the form of the Holy Grail.
		Using both their money and military strength coupled with the sailing abilities of the Zeno's, they sailed westwards towards Nova Scotia.
		Evidence exists to support the Templar's involvement in the Money Pit, but to expand this theory further, it would be useful to consider the influence of the
	www.oakislandtreasure.co.uk /templar.htm (798 words)

	The Money Pit
		This money would be handed over to non-profits that say they develop or manage affordable housing.
		This also would make clear that money invested through the GSEs is not federally guaranteed.
		Unfortunately, too many people seem to think it is. And in fact, since the two companies have so much market share, further financial problems in just one of them could undermine the entire U.S. financial market, which would probably lead to a federal bailout with taxpayers footing the bill.
	www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ed071105b.cfm (670 words)

	Turbo Money Pit - links
		The good news is we won the auction for the drivers seat, so contacted the seller to ask him to wrap the drivers seat ONLY in plastic/tape, and let us know the collection address and weight so we can get parcelforce to collect it.
		The seller responded by email with a collection address (appropriately enough, he is in Barking - Essex, and gave his surname as TMGB which I don't think is pronouncable??), and says we will have to guess the weight.
		I checked the paypal website at lunchtime and it looks like the seller has registered an unknown email address on eBay for his paypal payments to be sent to, so the paypal money we sent is still 'unclaimed' and address is 'unknown'.
	www.users.totalise.co.uk /~jblackmore/turbomoneypit/danscar.html (1738 words)

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		The Money Pit - Learn how to fix up your home sweet home every Saturday between 4pm and 6pm EST.
		The Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show is broadcast on radio stations coast to coast.
	www.soundwaves2000.com (401 words)

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