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2. Waterford Crystal - Wikipedia

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   Cut glass vase. Waterford Crystal is a manufacturer of lead glass or "crystal", especially in cut glass, named after the city of Waterford, Ireland.In January 2009, the main Waterford Crystal manufacturing base on the edge of Waterford was closed due to the insolvency of Waterford Wedgwood PLC, and in June 2010, Waterford Crystal relocated almost back to the roots of glass-making in the city ...

3. Waterford Wedgwood - Wikipedia

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   The company was founded in 1987 through the merger of Waterford Crystal and Wedgwood, to create an Ireland-based luxury brands group. The firm traced its heritage to the 1780s. [4]

4. Tipperary Crystal - Wikipedia

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   Tipperary Crystal is an Irish design company based in Dublin. [1] Tipperary Crystal is an Irish crystal design and manufacturing company founded in 1987 by former Waterford Crystal-craftsmen In Ireland. [2] In 1996, there was a high court case about the shareholding in which three minority shareholders complained about their actual share ...

5. Taaffeite - Wikipedia

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   Taaffeite (/ ˈ t ɑː f aɪ t /; BeMgAl 4 O 8) is a mineral, named after its discoverer Richard Taaffe (1898–1967) who found the first sample, a cut and polished gem, in October 1945 in a jeweler's shop in Dublin, Ireland. [4] [5] As such, it is the only gemstone to have been initially identified from a faceted stone.

6. Times Square New Year's Eve ball unveiled for 2025 celebration

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   The ball is covered with 2,688 Waterford crystal triangles of varying sizes. It weighs almost 12,000 lbs. and measures 12 feet in diameter. Rapper Pitbull was also atop the Midtown Manhattan ...

7. Richard Turner (iron-founder) - Wikipedia

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   Turner was born in Dublin around 1798, the son of a merchant Timothy Turner and Catherine (née Sissons). Both his grandfather and great-grandfather were also ironsmiths, the elder of which worked on the provost's house at Trinity College, Dublin. Turner inherited the ironworks from his uncle, also named Richard Turner.