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Uncut size Cut size Location Ref Maharlika Star Ruby India: 10,820 carats (2,164 g) Philippines: Liberty Bell Ruby: Burma: 1976 [a] 8,500 carats (1,700 g) Stolen and still missing [2] Neelanjali Ruby: 1,370 carats (274 g) Prince of Burma: Burma: 1996 950 carats (190 g) Rosser Reeves Ruby: Sri Lanka: 138.7 carats (27.74 g) National Museum of ...
A few sizes are close enough to interchange for most purposes, such as 19 mm (close to 3 ⁄ 4 inch (19.05 mm)), 8 mm (close to 5 ⁄ 16 inch (7.94 mm)) and 4 mm (close to 5 ⁄ 32 inch (3.97 mm)). In reality, a wrench with a width across the flats of exactly 15 mm would fit too tightly to use on a bolt with a width across the flats of 15 mm.
Hats is the second studio album by Scottish band the Blue Nile, originally released on 16 October 1989 on Linn Records and A&M Records.. After a prolonged delay in which an entire album's worth of work was scrapped, the Blue Nile released Hats to rave reviews, including a rare five-star rating from Q magazine.
All three singles released in the UK from the album made the top 75 in the UK Singles Chart. The Blue Nile's first live public performance after making A Walk Across the Rooftops was in December 1989 on the television programme Halfway to Paradise, a Scottish-based arts magazine show broadcast on Channel 4. The band also composed and performed ...
(11) Diamond (4.5 pt, 1.5875 mm). Fonts originally consisted of a set of moveable type letterpunches purchased from a type foundry . As early as 1600, the sizes of these types—their "bodies" [ 1 ] —acquired traditional names in English, French, German, and Dutch, usually from their principal early uses. [ 2 ]
Size Cut Color Location Ref Star of Adam: Sri Lanka 2015 1,404.49 carats (280.898 g) Star Blue Anonymous owner [3] Black Star of Queensland: Australia 1938 733 carats (146.6 g) Star Black Anonymous owner [4] Star of India: Sri Lanka 563.4 carats (112.68 g) Star Blue-gray American Museum of Natural History, New York [5] Queen Marie of Romania ...
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 ...
In the United States, Canada, and Mexico, ring sizes are specified using a numerical scale with 1 ⁄ 4 steps, where whole sizes differ by 0.032 inches (0.81 mm) of internal diameter, equivalent to 0.1005 inches (2.55 mm) of internal circumference.