Valued exposure: Fort Knox
This photograph was taken circa 1937 and shows the Gold Depository at Fort Knox in Kentucky, USA, two years after President Roosevelt ordered its construction.
The project cost $560,000 and the first gold arrived by railroad early in 1937.
The Gold Reserve Act of 1934 effectively banned the private possession of gold and meant anyone in possession of anything other than historic coins or jewellery had to sell it to the Treasury.
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How many other users are very disappointed that "Valued Exposure" as a regular daily feature has been ditched?
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I agree with 'Undervalued'. The Valued Exposure section of the BBC website was one I looked at once a week, so that I could go through several delightful pictures at a time. They often sparked off sessions where I surfed the internet to find out more about a topic.
Really disappointed if this isn't going to come back in the same way - and there isn't even a link on this page to the prior picture to go back to missed photos.
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Someone should check and make sure the bankers haven't stolen that as well.
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Many a true word ghostofsichuan
I am sure I read earlier that there has been no physical check of Gold reserves in either Fort Knox or West Polnt
since Eisenhower was president (1953-1961)
Found this however covering similar ground.
GATA to Federal Reserve: Where’s the Gold in Ft. Knox?
http://moderate.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/gata-to-federal-reserve-wheres-the-gold-in-ft-knox/
and this http://www.usagold.com/federalreserve.html
Perhaps China will find that the cupboard is bare when they want to cash in all those dollars for something more worthwhile
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I am also disappointed about the new Valued Exposure format. Please return this feature to the way it was before.
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Please return to old 'Valued exposure' format it was a regular visit for me now destroyed.
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1. At 5:03pm on 28 Jun 2010, Undervalued wrote:
"How many other users are very disappointed that "Valued Exposure" as a regular daily feature has been ditched? "
I am. Very. I check at least every other day for it.
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"How many other users are very disappointed that "Valued Exposure" as a regular daily feature has been ditched? "
There is so much material out there - must be a way running this, suggestions from the viewers maybe? it was a daily view for me so I am very dissapointed.
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I too would visit Valued Exposure on a daily basis. I have filled in... I don't know how many... satisfaction surveys for the BBC on the In Pictures. The format of the whole BBC stinks, the In Pictures page is updated very rarely (there is STILL the slideshow about the A1 motorway which appeared a year ago) and there is nothing engaging.
It doesn't take much resource to make a website look interesting or professional.
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I too am very disappointed that 'valued exposure' has been ditched as a regular feature. Bring it back!
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Valued exposures was a great daily feature. Surely it wasn't an expensive feature to run as most of the pictures must have been out of copyright. Bring it back!
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if it ain't broke don't fix - such good advice but does the BBC understand this? NO NO
the archive photos are particularly pleasing to old guys like myself (late 70's in age) and what do you do? Show the same one for a week instead of changing them daily like wot you used to do
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Many thanks again for all your comments. We do value them and as I have mentioned before the Valued exposure slot will be back on the In pictures index in the future.
As you may be aware the site is about to undergo a change to the design and layout and due to the amount of work involved on the picture side we removed the three daily photo slots from the index earlier this month to free up a little time.
Many thanks, Phil
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Is the Valued Exposure feature the old pic that used to show an old photo from the archives? I used to check this feature daily (it wasn't updated as often as it said it would be) and really enjoyed seeing the old pics. Very disappointed that it has been removed. The variety of subject was a particular joy.
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"if it ain't broke don't fix it" ? That isn't very helpful - Things like Valued Exposure wouldn't exist without some change and improvement. Changes like the new website might take a while to get used to but usually work out for the better with a bit of constructive feedback.
That being said, I agree that this feature should come back more regularly. Sounds like that is in the pipeline, so thank you very much for listening to us on that!
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