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2. Amazons (card game) - Wikipedia

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   Amazons is an old patience or card solitaire game which is played with a single deck of playing cards. The game is played with a Piquet pack minus the kings or a standard 52-card pack that has its twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes, and kings removed. This game is named after the female-led tribe, the Amazons, because the queen is the highest ...

3. Jewels of Diana, Princess of Wales - Wikipedia

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   The Aquamarine ring, an emerald cut aquamarine flanked by small, solitaire diamonds and set in 24-carat yellow gold, was commissioned by the Princess from Asprey in 1997 and was used by the Princess as a replacement for her engagement ring after her divorce from the Prince of Wales in 1996. [70]

4. Sir Tommy - Wikipedia

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   Sir Tommy, also called Old Patience, is a patience or solitaire card game using a single pack of 52 playing cards. It is said to be the ancestor of all patiences, hence its alternative title. [ 2 ] It is a half-open, planner type of patience game in the same family of card-building games as Calculation and Strategy .

5. St Edward's Sapphire - Wikipedia

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   The sapphire is thought to have been set in the coronation ring of King Edward, known later as St Edward the Confessor, who ascended the throne of England in 1042, twenty-four years before the Norman conquest. [2] Edward, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England, was buried with the ring at Westminster Abbey in 1066.

6. Sapphire - Wikipedia

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   Star sapphire 68 carat star sapphire in round mogul cut - men's ring version - 750 yellow gold - Russian goldsmith - handmade around 1990. A star sapphire is a type of sapphire that exhibits a star-like phenomenon known as asterism; red stones are known as "star rubies".

7. Jewels of Elizabeth II - Wikipedia

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   Elizabeth had the necklace shortened by removing the biggest sapphire in 1952, and later had a new pendant made using the removed stone. In 1963, a new sapphire and diamond tiara and bracelet were made to match the original pieces. The tiara is made out of a necklace that had belonged to Princess Louise of Belgium, daughter of Leopold II. In ...