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  2. Frankenstein's monster - Wikipedia

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    His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion ...

  3. The Gift of the Magi - Wikipedia

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    For example, while Rizzo the Rat sells his collection of rare cheese to buy Gonzo a dish for his mold collection, Gonzo reveals he sold his mold collection to buy Rizzo a cheese slicer. In 2004, during the intro of Season 1, Episode 7 of The L Word ("L'Ennui"), Marina Ferrer 's lover, Francesca Wolff , synopsizes the story while she seduces the ...

  4. Luminous gemstones - Wikipedia

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    The first involves a black crane; according to legend, when a crane has lived a thousand years it turns blue; after another thousand it becomes black and is called a xuanhe (玄鶴. "dark crane"). Kuai Shen [噲參] was the most filial son to his mother. Once a black crane was injured by a bow hunter and in its extremity, went to Kuai.

  5. Tavernier Blue - Wikipedia

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    The model also shows that the Hope diamond was cut between 1792 (when the French diamond was stolen) and 1812 (when the English blue diamond appeared). [ 13 ] Finally, according to the Museum's archives, it was Henry Philip Hope , after the death of his brother Thomas, who was the legal owner of the cut diamond until his death in 1839.

  6. 'A Beautiful Noise' tells Neil Diamond's story as national ...

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    Just as Diamond was known for strumming his guitar as a younger man on the streets of New York in the 1960s, Westenberg can recall his younger years of singing Diamond songs with a friend and a ...

  7. Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea - Wikipedia

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    The Opies (folklorists) have argued for an identification of the original Bobby Shafto with a resident of Hollybrook, County Wicklow, Ireland, who died in 1737. [1] However, the tune derives from the earlier "Brave Willie Forster", found in the Henry Atkinson manuscript from the 1690s, [3] and the William Dixon manuscript, from the 1730s, both from north-east England; besides these early ...

  8. Megan Fox Proclaims ‘She’s a Brunette Again’ With Chic Bob

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    “Repairing my hair (and 26 inches of extensions) post coachella,” she wrote in April while showing off her long clear nails and a silver nose ring. Her hair was worn down in beachy waves. Show ...

  9. 'Antiques Roadshow': diamond and ruby jewelry worth a fortune

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    The collection consisted of a ring, a pendant necklace and a bracelet that was worth a lot more than she expected. The appraiser said, "The ring with the fine ruby and the very very white diamonds ...