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unusual facts about jewels


Dalí-Jewels

Dalí, in collaboration with the Dutch American framemaker Henry Heydenryk, Jr. and Alemany, created special settings and illuminated frames for a traveling exhibition of the jewels sponsored by the Cheatham Foundation.


Arnolfo di Cambio

Around 1282 he finished the monument to Cardinal Guillaume de Braye in the church of San Domenico in Orvieto, including an enthroned Madonna (a Maestà) for which he took as a model an ancient Roman statue of the goddess Abundantia; the Madonna's tiara and jewels reproduce antique models.

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").

Banu Nadir

They earned their living through agriculture, money lending, and trade in weapons and jewels, maintaining commercial relations with Arab merchants of Mecca.

Barry Munday

Barry Munday (Patrick Wilson), a lonely womanizer, wakes up after being attacked to realize that he's missing his "family jewels".

Bertha Palmer

According to the author Aline B. Saarinen, "so fabulous were her jewels that a newspaper declared that when she appeared on the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse with a tiara of diamonds as large as lima beans, a corsage panned with diamonds, a sunburst as big as a baseball, a stomacher of diamonds and all the pearls around her neck, Alois Burgskeller of the Metropolitan Opera, who was singing at the ship's concert, was stopped right in the middle of a high note."

Billy Pettinger

Pettinger's songs have appeared in A&E's Biography, Miami Ink, American Idol, Tragic Side of Fame, My 600 LB Life, Gene Simmons' The Family Jewels, Chelsea Settles, Sweet Home Alabama, 16 and Pregnant, Exes and Ohs, Arctic Air, Tori and Dean Home Sweet Hollywood, One Angry Juror, Alienated and Canada In The Rough.

Buckley's Serenaders

They do the most preposterous things, in the way of Violin Solos, Deeply Sentimental Songs, and Lucrezia Borgia music, sung by a majestic female in black velvet and jewels with a blackened face! All that part of it, is intolerably bad.

Carol Thurston

She appeared in eight other films in the 1940s, including the roles of Rosa in the spy thriller, The Conspirators, Siu-Mei in Pearl S. Buck's China Sky, Toni Rosseau in Swamp Fire, Carmelita Mendoza in Jewels of Brandenburg, Narana in Arctic Manhunt, and Watona in Apache Chief.

Cradle of Rome

The gameplay is similar to that of Bejeweled; the player must flip jewels/resources on a playing field to create matches of at least three items of the same type.

Crown Jewels of Württemberg

The crown jewels also include the Diamond Diadem created for Queen Pauline of Württemberg in 1820.

Duilio Poggiolini

At the time of his arrest over 15 billion lire in an account in Switzerland was seized registered to his wife, Maria Di Pierr Poggiolini: In addition to a house in Naples, the couple had several billion francs in gold ingots, jewels, paintings and ancient and modern coins (including gold Tsar Nicholas II rubles and South African Krugerrand).

Echium wildpretii

The common names are tower of jewels, red bugloss, Tenerife bugloss or Mount Teide bugloss.

Eddie Feigner

The team was satirized on a 2006 episode of the Fox sitcom King of the Hill entitled "You Gotta Believe (In Moderation)" by a team called The Ace of Diamonds and His Jewels.

Edward Wharton-Tigar

Later, while still working for the SOE, Wharton-Tigar organized black-market trading in currencies, jewels and other valuables in Asia on an unprecedented scale, financing much of the Allied cause in that part of the world.

Elisabetta Querini

As such, on March 4, 1694, Elisabetta Querini appeared clad in a cloth of gold robe adorned with sable, with a white veil and corno ducale, (the version of ducal crown worn by the Doge and his wife) adorned with jewels, and a large diamond cross on her chest.

Eriphyle

Alcmaeon had given these jewels to Phegeus, who had his sons kill Alcmaeon when he discovered Alcmaeon's plan: thus lest the curse be transmitted to a next generation it was dedicated to Aphrodite at Amathus in Cyprus.

Fred Joaillier

The first store opened in Paris in 1936 and became famous for its jewels designed by Jean Cocteau, and for its famous client such as Marlène Dietrich or Grace Kelly.

French Blue

Tavernier Blue, a diamond that is part of the French crown jewels

Golborne

Holcroft Hall, now a farm, was the home of Colonel Blood, who, during the reign of Charles II, attempted to steal the Crown Jewels.

Great Cefnyberen

He was Keeper of the Jewels to Henry VIII and was a close associate to Thomas Cromwell in the dissolution of the Monasteries and the sequestration of their property, becoming Treasurer of the Court of Augmentations.

Hemmerle

In 2011 they created a book, ‘‘Delicious Jewels’’, in collaboration with the chef and author Tamasin Day-Lewis, published by Prestel.

Jaeger-LeCoultre

The watch was fitted with the Jaeger-LeCoultre Calibre 478BWS and featured seventeen jewels, a Breguet overcoil, a regulating spring on the balance-cock, a shock-absorber and a Glucydur® balance.

Jean Alfonse

In them he describes the various places and peoples he and others have seen, many of them for the first time in print (such as Gaspé, the Beothuk, Saint-Pierre Island, the jewels of Madagascar, a continent south of Java) and provides navigational instructions on how to get there.

John Williams, 1st Baron Williams of Thame

John Williams, 1st Baron Williams of Thame (c.1500 – 14 October 1559) was Treasurer of the King's Jewels, Lord Chamberlain of England (1553–1557) and Lord President of the Council of the Welsh Marches.

Jonathan P. Jackson

Hasan Salaam references to George and Jonathan Jackson in the song "Get High Riddum" found on "Tales of the Lost Tribe: Hidden Jewels"; "I fight for my freedom like George and John Jackson".

Joseph Scalise

On September 11, 1980, Scalise and a colleague, Arthur Rachel, undertook a $3.6 million jewel robbery in broad daylight at Graff's jewelry store in London's busy Knightsbridge area, stealing the 45-carat Marlborough diamond, along with many other jewels.

Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad

In his book Muruj adh-dhahab wa maadin aljawhar (The fields of gold and the mines of jewels), al-Mas'udi writes that Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad, from Delba (Palos de la Frontera) sailed into the Atlantic Ocean in 889 and returned with a shipload of valuable treasures.

King Davids Peak

Like other features of the park, such as Herods Gate, Lake Salome, Solomons Jewels, Damascus Gate, the Pool of Bathesda, many features are named for places and people in the Bible.

Kristy Bruce

Supporting roles in The Vicar of Dibley, The Detectives, Mike and Angelo and the TV adaptation of Danielle Steel's Jewels were followed by regular roles in The BBC Schools Programme Magic Grandad and CBBC's The Demon Headmaster.

La Palma

Echium webbii, a variety of Echium virescens (Tower of jewels) is endemic to La Palma, as are Ceropegia fusca and Ceropegia dichotoma; varieties of Cardoncillo.

Madre de Deus

Among these riches were chests filled with jewels and pearls, gold and silver coins, ambergris, rolls of the highest-quality cloth, fine tapestries, 425 tons of pepper, 45 tons of cloves, 35 tons of cinnamon, 3 tons of mace and 3 of nutmeg, 2.5 tons of benjamin (a highly aromatic balsamic resin used for perfumes and medicines), 25 tons of cochineal and 15 tons of ebony.

Noor-ul-Ain

The tiara forms part of the Iranian crown jewels, held at the National Treasury of Iran in the Central Bank in Tehran.

Paul Flato

Flato was convicted in 1943 of fraudulently pawning $100,000 in jewels that colleagues and clients had entrusted to him, and served 16 months in Sing Sing Penitentiary.

Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark

The crash figures in the plot of A Matter of Honour by Jeffrey Archer, where Grand Duke Georg has in his possession the jewels of his aunt, the last Tsaritsa of Russia, which the KGB are looking for.

Qamar-ud-din Khan, Asif Jah I

Now there came from the Emperor an elephant, jewels and the title of Asaf Jah, with directions to settle the country, repress the turbulent, punish the rebels and cherish the people.

Raphaele Shirley

2009 - Jewels of Kvinesdal - Utsikten Art Center - Kvinesdal, Norway (public art commission)

Robert Mazlo

He is also the author of a book on the Tarot, "The Tablets of Hermes", which is one of his main sources of inspiration to create his jewels.

Sam Stone

Writer Tanith Lee gave a quote for the back of the book which said : "A deceptively readable date with darkness – watch your step! This book is lit for the much more discerning chick (and cock) who likes to walk in the shadows. Relax with it, but be prepared for sudden jewels and little masterpieces – and the rug to be pulled from under your feet."

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels

A series of riddles and clues lead Watson on a hunt for inscribed jewels hidden at several famous sites across the city, including Westminster Abbey, Madame Tussauds Wax Museum, London Bridge, and Big Ben.

Skull Cave

The Skull Cave includes two treasure rooms, The Minor Treasure room with gold and jewels, and the major treasure room which includes invaluable, historical treasures, like the snake that killed Cleopatra, Excalibur, sword of King Arthur, the diamond cup of Alexander The Great, Shakespeare's original Hamlet script, and much more, including one of Alfred Nobel's first sticks of dynamite.

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar

Talinum paniculatum is a native plant from West Indies and Central America and has common names of Flameflower and Jewels-of-Opar.

The Wicked Lady

Henrietta wins Barbara's jewels, including her most-prized possession, her late mother's ruby brooch, in a game of Ombre.

Treasure of Pouan

The "Treasure of Pouan" consists of a number of gold and garnet cloisonné jewels and ornaments, buried with a skeleton uncovered in 1842 at Pouan-les-Vallées and identified as the burial of a 5th-century Germanic warrior.

UnoAErre

UnoAErre has realized an inner museum with works of the artists who have collaborated to the production of its jewels (like Pietro Cascella, Salvador Dalí and Salvatore Fiume); there's also a section of industrial archaeology in order not to disperse the historical memory of its activity of gold production, during more than seventy-five years of life.

Willie Loomis

Meanwhile, leaving Jason to his own scheme, Willie Loomis went secretly searching for the legendary Collins family jewels at the Eagle Hill Cemetery outside of Collinsport, Maine.


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