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The diamond hoax of 1872 (sometimes called The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872) [1] [2] was a swindle in which a pair of prospectors sold a false American diamond deposit to prominent businessmen in San Francisco and New York City.
Map of the United States showing the state nicknames as hogs. Lithograph by Mackwitz, St. Louis, 1884. The following is a table of U.S. state, federal district and territory nicknames, including officially adopted nicknames and other traditional nicknames for the 50 U.S. states, the U.S. federal district, as well as five U.S. territories.
Herkimer diamonds are double-terminated quartz crystals discovered within exposed outcrops of dolomite in and around Herkimer County, New York, and the Mohawk River Valley in the US. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are not diamonds ; the "diamond" in their name is due to both their clarity and well formed faces.
The flag's elements have a complex symbolism. According to the 1987 state law defining the flag, [7] the diamond represents Arkansas' status as "the only diamond-bearing state in the Union". (Crater of Diamonds State Park was the only diamond mine in North America at the time, before more recent discoveries in Colorado and Montana. However, the ...
The State Archeologist has catalogued more than 43,000 Native American living, hunting and tool-making sites, many of them Pre-Columbian burial mounds and rock shelters. Crater of Diamonds State Park near Murfreesboro is the world's only diamond-bearing site accessible to the public for digging.
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The largest diamond found by a park visitor in the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas since 1972, when it was established as a state park. It was found by W. W. Johnson of Amarillo, Texas in 1975 and was a 16.37 carats (3.27 g) white diamond, but it has since been cut into a 7.54 carats (1,510 mg) marquise shape.
It's called a lash tab, and historically, it was utilized by hikers and mountain climbers. "Originally, it was designed to carry an ice ax," said Jamie Cormack , co-founder of Herschel, to Today ...