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Garnet, the birthstone for January. Amethyst, the birthstone for February. Aquamarine, the birthstone for March. Diamond, the birthstone for April. Emerald, the birthstone for May. Pearl, one of three June birthstones. Moonstone, one of three June birthstones. Alexandrite, one of three June birthstones.
Almighty Black P. Stone Nation; Founded: 1959: Named after: Blackstone Avenue: Founding location: Woodlawn, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.: Years active: 1959-present: Territory: Primarily concentrated in Chicago, some areas of NW Indiana, Michigan, and the neighborhood of Baldwin Village in Los Angeles Rockford Illinois, very populuated on the north side of Rockford Illinois with tons of sets that ...
Prasiolite (also known as green quartz, green amethyst or vermarine) is a green variety of quartz. Since 1950, almost all natural prasiolite has come from a small Brazilian mine, [citation needed] but it has also been mined in the Lower Silesia region of Poland. Naturally occurring prasiolite has also been found in the Thunder Bay area of ...
Aqeeq. Aqeeq, akik or aqiq ( Arabic: العقيق) means quartz in Arabic, and agate in Turkish, however in the context of rings usually refers to a ring set with a chalcedony stone. Well-known types of chalcedony are carnelian, agate, and onyx. It is considered a semi-precious gem stone, and rings set with golden-orange variety of carnelian or ...
Aetites. Eagle stone amulet, seventeenth century, from the Bavarian and Austrian amulet collection of W. L. Hildburgh, originally gifted to the Wellcome Museum. In the magical tradition of Europe and the Near East (see: Magic in the Greco-Roman world ), the aetites (singular in Latin) or aetite ( anglicized) is a stone used to promote childbirth.
March 22, 1980. ( 1980-03-22) Dismantled date. July 6, 2022. The Georgia Guidestones was a granite monument that stood in Elbert County, Georgia, United States, from 1980 to 2022. It was 19 feet 3 inches (5.87 m) tall and made from six granite slabs weighing a total of 237,746 pounds (107,840 kg). [ 1] The structure was sometimes referred to as ...
CBS News shared a story about a resilient 10-year-old lion named Jacob who lives in Uganda, and he's lived quite a life. Called "Africa's most resilient lion", Jacob and his brother recently set a ...
Baalbek Stones. Coordinates: 33°59′57″N 36°12′01″E. The Stone of the Pregnant Woman before its current excavation. The Baalbek Stones are six massive Roman [ 1] worked stone blocks in Baalbek (ancient Heliopolis ), Lebanon, characterised by a megalithic gigantism unparallelled in antiquity . The smallest three are part of a podium ...