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unusual facts about Precious


Dai Xiangyu

Dai paired the second time with Jeanette Aw in " Together.Dai acted Yang Nian Qing's(Jeanette Aw) brother in Breakout. This is the third time Dai acted with Jeanette Aw. After the 2010 year-end blockbuster Breakout, Dai took a break and did not appear in any locally produced series. He briefly returned to China to film a co-production drama Precious. He played Ling Zhi Chu in "Precious".


A Matter of Honour

The "item in question" that Adam's father's letter leads him to acquire from a safe deposit box in Switzerland is a precious Russian Orthodox icon made long ago for the Russian czars which by misadventure came into the possession of Hermann Göring sometime in the 1930s.

Agadir Crisis

On 21 July David Lloyd George delivered the Mansion House speech in which he declared that national honour was more precious than peace.

Assorted Gems

All were named after precious jewels: eldest daughter Bi-chwi ("Jade"), eldest son San-ho ("Coral"), second daughter Ryu-bi ("Ruby"), and the youngest son, Ho-bak ("Amber").

Beans and Fatback

The two CD compilation Wray's Three Track Shack (Acadia/Evangeline Recorded Works Ltd./Universal Music, 2005) includes Beans And Fatback alongside with other "shack" recordings of 1971 (Link Wray and Mordicai Jones), but the track "Take My Hand (Precious Lord)" was replaced without credit by "Backwoods Preacher Man" (a cover song of Tony Joe White) from The Link Wray Rumble album (Polydor, 1974).

Bela Talbot

Bela fools them into helping her again, with the three of them working together to steal the precious and magical Hand of Glory.

Blue Ridge Quartet

1965 The Blue Ridge Quartet (Canaan Records CA-4605/CAS-9605): The Streets Of Gold; Precious Memories; Lord I'm Coming Home; I Dreamed I Searched Heaven For You; Not My Will; Stop And Pray; Lead Me Guide Me; Mansion Can't Be Bought; Suppertime; The Haven Of Rest; How Great Thou Art; Take My Hand.

Commodity market

George Gero, precious metals commodities expert at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Wealth Management section reported that he had not seen selling of gold bullion as panicked as this in his forty years in commodity markets.

Cui Rong

He is famous for editing an anthology of poetry of the court of Wu Zetian: a work known as the Collection of Precious Glories (Zhuying ji), which contained poems by himself, Li Jiao (644-713), Zhang Yue (677-731), and others.

DeLong Star Ruby

On October 29, 1964, the DeLong star ruby was one of a number of precious gems stolen in a notorious jewelry heist by Jack Roland Murphy and two accomplices.

DGSE Companies

is a leading precious metal and jewelry wholesaler and retailer in the Southwestern United States, headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Ecstasy. A Study of Happiness

Henri van Booven later recalled that Elisabeth Couperus carried the cash box while Couperus took his most precious possession of that time, being the manuscript of Ecstacy.

Empire of Ivory

Scarcely has this realization set in that the Aerial Corps are beset by Tswana humans and dragons; the British beasts, who have been sent back to the Cape with their precious cargo, are unable to prevent their aircrews from being captured, and Rev. Erasmus' attempts to intercede only lead to his death, as the Lunda are known slavers.

Flesh Gordon

The character names are suggestive innuendos, based on the character names from the first of those multi-chapter serials: the hero Flesh Gordon; his love interest Dale Ardor; the evil Emperor Wang the Perverted; Dr. Flexi Jerkoff; Amora, Queen of Magic; and a very gay Robin Hood-like character called Prince Precious.

Gudea

Materials for his buildings and statues were brought from all parts of western Asia: cedar wood from the Amanus mountains, quarried stones from Lebanon, copper from northern Arabia, gold and precious stones from the desert between Canaan and Egypt, diorite from Magan (Oman), and timber from Dilmun (Bahrain).

House of Yusupov

He took with him some of his most precious paintings by Rembrandt and jewellery.

Jambhala

He sits on a snow lion, although some artists depict him sitting on a dragon, and a mongoose in his left hand spits out precious diamonds and ornaments.

Jason et Médée

The precious object becomes his when a powerful sorceress named Medea helps him conquer the dragon guarding it Jason has two children by Medea, but he abandons her for the nymph Creusa.

JasPer

The name "JasPer" has simultaneous connotations with Canada's Jasper National Park, with the semi-precious gemstone, jasper, and with "JP" as an abbreviation of the JPEG-2000 standard.

Joachim Frederick of Brieg

His Duchy also expanded thanks of the districts of Dzierżoniów and Srebrna Góra, who had rich deposits of precious metals.

Johann Friedrich Rochlitz

Her previous husband had been the Leipzig businessman Daniel Winkler and brought Winkler's precious art collection (including a Rembrandt painting) with her on her marriage to Rochlitz.

José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage

In 1860 he succeeded in getting back some collections which were removed from the Museum during the Napoleonic invasion of Portugal, by the French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), which included precious specimens collected by Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (1756–1815) in Brazil.

Kanaung Mintha

In 1978 Ne Win, ruler of Burma since leading a military coup in 1964, married June Rose Bellamy, aka Yadana Nat-Me (Precious Angel), a great granddaughter of Ka Naung, daughter of Princess Hteiktin Ma Lat and Herbert Bellamy, an Australian orchid collector long settled in Burma.

Kannitverstan

A young workman from Tuttlingen (then part of the Duchy of Württemberg) visited the cosmopolitan city of Amsterdam for the first time in his life and was impressed by a particularly stately home and a large ship laden with precious commodities.

Maiolica di Laterza

The Maiolica di Laterza is a precious kind of maiolica made in the town of Laterza, part of the Apulia region in Italy.

Maritime history of Somalia

In ancient times, the Kingdom of Punt, which is believed by several Egyptologists to have been situated in the area of modern-day Somalia, had a steady trade link with the Ancient Egyptians and exported precious natural resources such as myrrh, frankincense and gum.

Marlborough, Queensland

Marlborough is famous for producing the world's finest chrysoprase, a semi-precious gem once coveted by Alexander the Great and Cleopatra.

MMST

:And Hezekiah was attentive to them, and showed them all the house of his treasures--the silver and gold, the spices and precious ointment, and all his armory--all that was found among his treasures.

Multilateral trading facility

MTFs have been launched in other asset classes as well, one of the examples is LMAX Exchange an FCA regulated MTF for trading spot FX and precious metals.

Olivia Hallinan

In 2011 Hallinan starred in Precious Little Talent written by Ella Hickson and directed by James Dacre at Trafalgar Studios theatre in London's West End.

Our Lady of Porta Vaga

Lerena was able to retrieve the precious image of the Virgin from a junkyard where it was thrown by the Japanese invaders and brought it to the Archbishop’s Palace in Intramuros, Manila and later to the vaults of the Philippine National Bank for safekeeping.

Philip Klapwijk

After studies at the London School of Economics and the College of Europe in Bruges where he obtained degrees in economics he started work as an analyst with Gold Fields Mineral Services (now GFMS), a precious metals and base metals forecasting & consultancy company specialising in global gold, silver, platinum and palladium market research, reports, annual reviews and analysis.

Precious McKenzie

Half Man Half Biscuit pondered his later years in the song 'I Left My Heart In Papworth General' -- Precious McKenzie, boy I remember you well... with a gob full of tapioca I would sit and I'd watch you excel, those legendary rivulets would trickle on down to your chin, but I always wondered what you did when you packed it all in...

Predictably Irrational

A value can be as easily (arbitrarily) assigned as by having a fancy ad with “equally” precious items and a high price tag in a window of a store on Fifth Avenue.

Rabbit in the Moon

As remixers, Rabbit In the Moon has reworked songs by artists such as Depeche Mode ("Waiting for the Night"), Tori Amos ("Precious Things"), Sarah McLachlan ("Fear", "Possession"), Orbital ("Are We Here?"), Smashing Pumpkins ("The End Is the Beginning Is the End"), Goldie ("Inner City Life"), White Zombie ("Blood, Milk and Sky") and Delerium ("Euphoria").

Robert Goossens

In his decades of creating fine jewelry, Goossens mixed the genuine stones with the fakes, a blend of the artificial gems with the semi-precious for clients including Coco Chanel, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Yves Saint Laurent, Madame Gres and Christian Dior.

Satilla River

Governor Sonny Perdue said, “Water is one of Georgia’s most important and precious resources... the litter trap installed by Waycross is a model of stewardship for the state and the nation.”

Schänis Abbey

According to the report of a monk from Reichenau Abbey the founder was believed to be Count Hunfried of Chur-Rhaetia, who was said to have promised Charlemagne to make the foundation for the worthy safekeeping of a precious reliquary cross containing a fragments of the True Cross, as well as an onyx vessel containing some of the Blood of Christ.

Sithathoriunet

Most of the objects are made of gold with inlays of precious stone (Cloisonné).

Skindive

Eventually the band signed to Independent label AlphaMale Recordings, prepared for their follow-up album entitled Falling Down and releasing a single called Precious (which received regular air play on Pet Sounds, Today FM).

St. Wystan's Church, Repton

Nikolaus Pevsner described the Anglo-Saxon parts of St. Wystan's parish church as "one of the most precious survivals of Anglo-Saxon architecture in England".

Tang Sang

The current sole owner of this precious footage is Tang Sang's friend and WingTsun Leung Ting.

The Simpsons Arcade Game

As the Simpson Family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, take a stroll through town, they encounter a jewellery store being robbed by Waylon Smithers, who bumps into Homer, leading a precious diamond he stole to land in Maggie's mouth.

Villa della Regina

Inside there are frescoes and paintings by Giovanni Battista Crosato, Daniel Seyter and Corrado Giaquinto in the main room, grotesques of Filippo Minei and paintings by the brothers Domenico and Giuseppe Valeriani in the near rooms; there are also precious Chinese Cabinets in lacquer and golden wood.

Wat Phra Kaew

The earliest legend narrated to the iconic emerald image of the Buddha is that of Nagasena, a saint in India who with the help of Hindu god, Vishnu and demigod Indra had the Emerald Buddha image made, 500 years after Buddha attained Nirvana, from the precious stone of Emerald.

Yakutpura

The word Yakut Ya·kut(yä-koot) from YakutPura is derived from the Persian word "Yakut" which means the precious Blue Sapphire Stone, It was named by the Nizam of Hyderabad.

Zhu Gui

When Chao Gai and his six friends flee to Liangshan for refuge after robbing the convoy of birthday gifts, Wang Lun tries to send them away again with precious gifts.

Zinc–air battery

Cobalt oxide/carbon nanotube hybrid oxygen reduction catalyst and Nickel-iron layered double hydroxide oxygen evolution cathode catalysts exhibited higher catalytic activity and durability in concentrated alkaline electrolytes than precious metal Platinum and Iridium catalysts.


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