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3 unusual facts about Opal


KEMM

KEMM (FM), a defunct radio station (91.1 FM) formerly licensed to serve Opal, Wyoming, United States, whose license was cancelled November 16, 2012

Miniature Lop

Agouti, Black, Blue, Brown, Butterfly, Chinchilla, Fawn, Fox, Opal, Orange, Sable Marten, Sealpoint, Siamese Sable, Siamese Smoke, Sooty Fawn, Steel, White

Opal-rumped Tanager

The population of the Atlantic Forest has a far paler chest than the other populations, and has often been considered a separate species as the Silvery-breasted Tanager (Tangara cyanomelas).


Abaris Books

OPAL chose to focus on The Illustrated Bartsch as the premier title of Abaris Books, however Abaris receives worldwide recognition for their publications of the catalogues raisonnés of Albrecht Dürer and Rembrandt.

Eduard Hildebrandt

Fantasies in red, yellow and opal, sunset, sunrise and moonshine, distances of hundreds of miles like those of the Andes and the Himalaya, narrow streets in the bazaars of Cairo or Suez, panoramas as seen from mast-heads, wide cities like Bombay or Pekin, narrow strips of desert with measure-less expanses of skyall alike display his quality of bravura.

Golden-crowned Manakin

Except for the yellow crown of the male, it closely resembles the Opal-crowned Manakin and Snow-capped Manakin, but their distributions are not known to overlap.

Halley's Comet Opal

Andamooka Opal, another named opal that is also known as the Queen's Opal

Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer

To keep up her not-bummer summer goal, she, along with her awesome Aunt Opal, decides to help Stink catch Bigfoot.

Marl

Upper Cretaceous cyclic sequences in Germany and marl–opal-rich Tortonian-Messinian strata in the Sorbas basin related to multiple sea drawdown have been correlated with Milankovitch orbital forcing.

MasTec

The Ruby Pipeline is a 42-inch (1,100 mm) natural gas pipeline running from Opal, Wyoming, to Malin, Oregon.

OPAL Soil Centre

The OPAL Soil Centre has high profile partners including the Environment Agency, British Geological Survey, and the Natural History Museum.

Oskar Speck

On release, Speck worked as an opal cutter at Lightning Ridge, before moving to Sydney and establishing a successful career as an opal merchant.

Pobby and Dingan

Set in the opal mining community of Lightning Ridge in New South Wales it tells of the eponymous Pobby and Dingan, imaginary friends of Kellyanne Williamson, sister of Ashmol and daughter of an opal miner.

Red Top Young

He recorded an album for Quincy Jones on the Mercury Label in the 60s, prior to that he recorded the song Tequila for Charlie and Opal Lanze (Lanso Records).

Tsumebite

Tsumebite occurs at Morenci, Arizona, predominantly as twinned crystals associated with wulfenite, olivenite and the hyalite variety of opal.


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