like Benjamin Franklin's chess table or Da Vinci's painting, Leda.
Ogged's girlfriend.
BitchPhD's sense of humor.
Fontana Labs' virginity.
Do me, now Apostropher! ANITGBSW.
We don't know that either of the first two on apo's list exist or have ever existed.
Didn't people meet either Ex or EBL at one of the meetups?
We did -- she was lovely. (That is, both very attractive and really nice, considering that she was spending an evening in a bar with a bunch of weirdos off the Internet.)
Just visited the site - who's looking for the Ark of the Covenant? One of the Boys from Brazil?
That site is going to have to get 5,000 times more extensive for it to make much sense. There already is a pretty excellent database of stolen art and antiquities, and even they admit that a whole bunch of stuff never gets uploaded.
There's a show called History's Lost and Found that covers a lot of the same territory. (I never get to see it, though, because TiVo keeps listing it but the Precious shows me infomercials instead. Damn you, History Channel!)
The Amber Room is not in their top ten? Wie, bitte?
Isn't there consensus that the Amber Room was destroyed by a fire during WWII? I'm somewhat puzzled by the inclusion of the Laurel and Hardy movie -- I'm not much of a silent movie buff, but I could still rattle off a dozen films that would seem more historically or artistically important (Theda Bara's Cleopatra, an original print of Greed, The Way of All Flesh, and so on). The thing about silent movies is that the do occasionally crop up in odd places -- The Passion of Joan of Arc was found in a closet in an Oslo mental hospital, and I think Frank Thompson claimed (in his fascinating book on the subject) that there is a copy of London After Midnight floating around somewhere in Europe.
A little more googling doesn't show me much consensus on the Amber Room. On the other hand, amber that has not been cared for apparently tends to turn into dust, so it may be a moot point.
The Guardian had a huge article on the search for the Amber Room; last year, sometime?
I can't find the article, but it was based on this book (I think).
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,,1263494,00.html
Spoke too soon, it's here:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1221941,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,1221229,00.html