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Lapidary (from the Latin lapidarius) is the practice of shaping stone, minerals, or gemstones into decorative items such as cabochons, engraved gems (including cameos), and faceted designs. A person who practices lapidary techniques of cutting, grinding, and polishing is known as a lapidary or lapidarist.
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The Mineral and Lapidary Museum of Henderson County is a non-profit, volunteer-run museum in Hendersonville, North Carolina, United States, founded in 1997 at 400 North Main Street in the middle of the city's Historic District.
The sword has an iron blade with a copper alloy guard, grip, and hilt in the form of a stylised anthropomorphic figure. Stuart Piggott classified it as an 'anthropoid-hilted dagger' and a variant of his broader Group II of Iron Age swords, dating from the second and first centuries BC. [3]
A front-facing straight blade with flat back (similar to #15a) No. 25a: 4, 4 Graduated, 4 Long, 6: A triangular straight blade with flat back edge taking a downwards angle (similar to #10a, shorter than #26) No. 26: 4, 4 Graduated, 4 Long, 6: A triangular straight blade with flat back edge taking a downwards angle (similar to the #15a, longer ...
A man who raped a vulnerable woman after posing as a good samaritan and luring her to his Aberdeen flat has been jailed for five years. Diego Valdivieso, 30, offered the young woman a bed at his ...
Arthur Kingsley Porter was the son of Timothy Hopkins Porter, a banker, [7] and Maria Louisa Hoyt, one of the first women to graduate from Vassar College. [8] When his parents married in 1870 [9] they merged two of Connecticut's oldest and most influential families, [10] both groups of ancestors having arrived in Connecticut in the early 1600s.
Kingsley's youngest sister's daughter, Anna McNeill, participated with her mother in attempting to block Anna Jai from inheriting Kingsley's property. McNeill served as the model for her son, the artist James Whistler, in his Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother, popularly known as Whistler's Mother. [17]