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2. Koh-i-Noor Hardtmuth - Wikipedia

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   At the 1889 World Fair in Paris, the Hardtmuths displayed their pencils rebranded as "Koh-I-Noor Hardtmuth". Each pencil was encased in a yellow cedar -wood barrel. The inspiration for the name was the Koh-i-Noor diamond (Persian for "Mountain of Light"), part of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom, and the largest diamond in the world at ...

3. Joseph Hardtmuth - Wikipedia

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   His company Koh-i-Noor Hardtmuth still exists. The extensive Liechtenstein possessions led him to Bohemia, Moravia and again to Lower Austria as building director. He was commissioned with the conversion of farm buildings and castles, the construction of schools and patron churches and other construction measures such as the creation and design ...

4. Why is the Koh-i-Noor diamond so controversial? - AOL

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5. Why is the Koh-i-Noor diamond so controversial? - AOL

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   The huge diamond is steeped in history and controversy over how it came to be in the possession of British royalty

6. Jindřich Waldes - Wikipedia

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   Waldes Koh-i-noor fasteners for the German market, 1920s. Karel Waldes, father of Jindřich, had an inn and a small haberdashery shop in the village of Nemyšl near the town of Tábor in southern Bohemia. He wanted his son to continue his business but Jindřich found a position of a clerk at the firm of Eduard Lokesch and Son in Prague. This ...

7. A Brief History of the Queen Mother's Koh-i-Noor ... - AOL

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   The Koh-i-Noor is a controversial gem with a complicated history. The Koh-i-Noor has been the center of several ownership disputes since 1947, when India gained independence from the United Kingdom.

8. Flashman and the Mountain of Light - Wikipedia

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   The book begins with Flashman being questioned about Koh-i-Noor by Queen Victoria. As Flashman cannot tell the truth to the Queen without offending her, he reminisces about the First Sikh War , 1845 and 1846, and how he acquired Koh-i-Noor (The Mountain of Light).

9. GMB guests gets into heated discussion about controversial ...

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   Camilla is set to avoid having the Koh-i-noor diamond, nor any replicas of it, set into the crown that she will wear at the ceremony this spring. Instead, it will include diamonds from the late ...