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  2. BBB Reveals America's Most Complained-About Businesses - AOL

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    The Better Business Bureau just released some good news: In 2011, consumers consulted the BBB far more often than they did the year before, and they lodged fewer complaints.

  3. Koh-i-Noor Hardtmuth - Wikipedia

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    At the 1889 World Fair in Paris, the Hardtmuths displayed their pencils rebranded as "Koh-I-Noor Hardtmuth". Each pencil was encased in a yellow cedar-wood barrel. The inspiration for the name was the Koh-i-Noor diamond (Persian for "Mountain of Light"), part of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom, and the largest diamond in the world at the ...

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    A BBB-accredited company agrees to abide by a set of accreditation standards BBB says are "attributes of a better business." These include honesty in advertising, transparency, and responsiveness ...

  5. Koh-i-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

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    Introduction. The introduction of the book describes the event at the center of contemporary controversy, which is that the East India Company compelled 10-year-old Duleep Singh, heir to the Sikh Empire, to agree to the 1849 Treaty of Lahore, and its stipulation that he give the Koh-i-Noor to the East India Company.

  6. Pencil - Wikipedia

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    This method of manufacture, which had been earlier discovered by the Austrian Joseph Hardtmuth, the founder of the Koh-I-Noor in 1790, remains in use. In 1802, the production of graphite leads from graphite and clay was patented by the Koh-I-Noor company in Vienna. [24] In England, pencils continued to be made from whole sawn graphite.

  7. Why is the Koh-i-Noor diamond so controversial? - AOL

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    The huge diamond is steeped in history and controversy over how it came to be in the possession of British royalty

  8. Joseph Hardtmuth - Wikipedia

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    His company Koh-i-Noor Hardtmuth still exists. The extensive Liechtenstein possessions led him to Bohemia, Moravia and again to Lower Austria as building director. He was commissioned with the conversion of farm buildings and castles, the construction of schools and patron churches and other construction measures such as the creation and design ...

  9. Why is the Koh-i-Noor diamond so controversial? - AOL

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