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2. Wonder Woman's bracelets - Wikipedia

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   The inspiration to give Diana bracelets came from the pair of bracelets worn by Olive Byrne, creator William Moulton Marston's research assistant and lover. [5] Marston quoted in a 1942 interview: "Wonder Woman and her sister Amazons have to wear heavy bracelets to remind them of what happens to a girl when she lets a man conquer her.

3. Sovereign (British coin) - Wikipedia

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   The sovereign is a British gold coin with a nominal value of one pound sterling (£1) and contains 0.2354 troy ounces (113.0 gr; 7.32 g) of pure gold.Struck since 1817, it was originally a circulating coin that was accepted in Britain and elsewhere in the world; it is now a bullion coin and is sometimes mounted in jewellery.

4. Ulysse Nardin - Wikipedia

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   Ulysse Nardin marine chronometer. Ulysse Nardin was born in 1823 in Le Locle, Switzerland. [15] During the long and snowy winters, inhabitants used to produce timekeeping instruments to survive, as they couldn't live from farming alone. [16]

5. GOLD - Wikipedia

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   Gold, a chemical element; Genomes OnLine Database; Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, a NASA Explorer Mission of Opportunity; GOLD (parser), an open-source parser-generator of BNF-based grammars; Graduates of the Last Decade, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers program to garner more university level student members

6. Saint-Gaudens double eagle - Wikipedia

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   The double eagle continued to be struck until May. On December 28, 1933, Acting Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau ordered Americans to turn in all gold coins and gold certificates, with limited exceptions, receiving paper money in payment. [51] Millions of gold coins were melted down by the Treasury in the following years.

7. Shellac - Wikipedia

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   Shellac comes from shell and lac, a partial calque of French laque en écailles, 'lac in thin pieces', later gomme-laque, 'gum lac'. [5] Most European languages (except Romance ones and Greek) have borrowed the word for the substance from English or from the German equivalent Schellack.