History of a Famous Diamond - The Hope Diamond

By Luo Fu Sheng on August 10, 2011
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One of the most famous diamonds in history, the Hope diamond, came from India and weighed 112 3/16 carats when it was acquired around 1642 by French merchant Jean Baptiste Tavernier,Cartier White Gold Love Ring with 8 Diamonds, who was struck by its "beautiful violet" color. He sold it to the King of France, Louis XIV, who had it re-cut to a 67 1/8 carat stone which royal inventories thereafter listed as the Blue Diamond of the Crown of France. The blue diamond passed through ownership by French and British royalty, famed jeweler Pierre Cartier, and U.S. socialites before it was purchased by jeweler Harry Winston along with the 94.8 carat Star of the East diamond, 1949. In 1958, Winston donated the Hope diamond to the Smithsonian Institution, where it quickly became a star attraction.

Resetting and re-cuttings over the centuries reduced the Hope diamond to its present 45.52 carats,Cartier Gold Plated Bracelet With Stylish Charms Paved Diamonds, 40% of its original size. Today, it is set in a spectacular pendant surrounded by sixteen white diamonds, and still attracts countless admirers at the Smithsonian.

The Hope Diamond was long believed to have been cut from the French Blue, but this remained unconfirmed until a three-dimensional leaden model of the latter was recently rediscovered in the archives of the French Natural History Museum in Paris. Previously, the dimensions of the French Blue had been known only from two drawings made in 1749 and 1789; although the model slightly differs from the drawings in some details, these details are identical to features of the Hope Diamond, allowing CAD technology to digitally reconstruct the French Blue around the re-cut stone.

Many superlatives have been used to describe the hope diamond as a "superfine deep blue", often comparing it to the color of a fine sapphire "blue of the most beautiful blue sapphire". As colored diamond expert Stephen Hofer points out, blue diamond similar to the Hope can be shown by colorimetric measurements to be grayer than blue sapphires. In 1996, it was examined by using of proprietary scale, graded it fancy deep grayish blue. Visually, the gray modifier is so dark that it produces an "inky" effect appearing almost blackish-blue in incandescent light. Current photographs of the Hope utilize high-intensity light sources that tend to maximize the brilliance of gemstones.

Even jewelers who may have handled the Hope Diamond were not spared from its reputed malice: The insanity and suicide of Jacques Colot, who supposedly bought it from Eliason, and the financial ruin of the jeweler Simon Frankel, who bought it from the Hope family, were linked to the stone. But although he is documented as a French diamond dealer of the correct era, Colot has no recorded connection with the stone, and Frankel's misfortunes were in the midst of economic straits that also ruined many of his peers.

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Leave an Impression on Your Own Sons With Omega Replica Watches

By Kitty Lee on April 11, 2011
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Luxury Watches and Luxury Service

By Steve Miklashevskiy on November 23, 2009
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World of Luxury is a world class supplier of rare timepieces, collectors watches, Swiss watches, jewelry, and much more. Also offered are some other rare luxury items. Offering these fine items at a heavily discounted price, World of Luxury is able to make these products available people who would not otherwise be able to afford them. Making connections during their ten years in business all across the globe, this company has found suppliers who can keep their inventory attractive, distinctive, genuine, and low cost. These are not refurbished products, but are original luxury items. All items come with their original manufacturer's warranty and in their original packaging.

World of Luxury's collection of Swiss watches, collectors watches, rare timepieces and more includes many famous name brands. Items are available from companies such as Arnold and Son, Carl Bucherer, Girard Perregaux, Richard Mille, Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, Breitling, Ulysse Nardin, Vacheron Constantin, Corum, IWC, Jaeger LeCoultre, Cartier, Blancpain, A Lange and Sohne, Hublot, Glashutte Original, Graham, and Parmigiani Fleurier. These high end and authentic items are available for purchase from World of Luxury. In addition, this company also carries some hard to find items and limited edition items.

World of Luxury's high quality and serial number verified luxury items are available with great customer service included. When you buy collectors watches, rare timepieces, or Swiss watches, you would expect superior customer service. Many times, however, when you buy a luxury brand like Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe, Breitling, Ulysse Nardin, Vacheron Constantin, Corum, IWC, Jaeger LeCoultre,Cartier Stainless Steel Bracelet with Diamonds, Cartier, Blancpain, A Lange and Sohne, Hublot, Glashutte Original, Graham, Parmigiani Fleurier, Arnold and Son, Carl Bucherer, Girard Perregaux, or Richard Mille at a discounted price, you might find a discount in the service as well, but not with World of Luxury. Offering regular service hours, including a phone number, an email address, and fax number. This company stands behind the quality of its products.

You can count on World of Luxury to service after the sale when it comes to Swiss watches, rare timepieces, or collectors' watches. At 50% or more in savings,new Cartier sale, why shouldn't you own a luxury timepiece? World of Luxury's experience as a successful Power Seller on eBay (Our eBay Store – World of Luxury: with a long history of satisfied customers is a proving ground that shows what great service and product they provide. You can visit World of Luxury directly at www.worldofluxuryus.com to find a collection of luxury items to suit your needs.

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An Introduction to Jaeger-Lecoultre Watches

By Thomas Dowson on November 30, 2009
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Thomas Dowson is freelance writer, writing here about luxury watches for The Watch Gallery, London, UK. Click here to find out more about Jaeger-LeCoultre watches.

Jaeger-LeCoultre is today widely regarded as one of the most innovative players in the watch making industry. Having played a prominent role in the history of watch making, and producing distinctive, luxury and often unique watches Jaeger-LeCoultre watches often win awards as chosen by the public and expert panels alike.

Recently, Jaeger LeCoultre shocked the watch-world by creating the Hybris Mechanica à Grande Sonnerie. This is officially the world's most sophisticated watch with 26 complications. And a long way from the humble beginnings of a family enterprise high up in the Swiss mountains.

Antoine LeCoultre founded his first workshop in 1833 in the small Swiss mountain town of Le Sentier,Cartier love earrings, located in the Vallée de Joux. Jaeger-LeCoultre acknowledges its geographical location as a significant component of the pioneering watchmaker's success. Le Sentier was frequently cut off from the outside world by severe snow storms during long and harsh winters. But, with a great of ingenuity and a little iron from the local mines, some great and incredibly inventive watches were made.

A few decades later, in 1866 to be exact, Antoine LeCoultre and his son decided to bring together all the aspects of a watch's production under one roof. And to enable all of these activities to be able to function properly, a steam driven machine was installed to operate all the necessary tools. LeCoutlre & Cie was born. Because of this innovative approach to the production of watches, the factories in Le Sentier soon became affectionately known of as the 'Grande Maison' of the Vallée de Joux.

The other half of the Jaeger-LeCoultre story begins in Paris in 1903.

Edmond Jaeger designed an ultra-thin caliber, and he challenged Swiss watchmakers to manufacture these. It was Jacques-David LeCoultre, Antoine's grandson, who took up the challenge and succeeded. The LeCoultres brought their exceptional watch making craft skills,Cartier earring, while Jaeger, a brilliant designer, gave their joint productions a distinctive style that is the unmistakable Jaeger-LeCoultre label. This partnership gave rise to a set of horological wonders, and then in 1937 the Jaeger-LeCoultre brand itself.

Both independently and together these two men forged relationships with some very well known creators of luxury watches. From 1902, and for some thirty years thereafter, LeCoultre & Cie produced watch movements for Patek Philippe of Geneva. Before Jaeger and LeCoultre began working together, Jaeger already had amongst his clients the famous designer Cartier. In 1907 a contract was signed in which it was agreed that Jaeger, LeCoultre & Cie would exclusively produce Cartier's creations.

In 1907 the Jaeger-LeCoultre Caliber 145 set the record for being the thinnest movement at 1.38 mm. But over the years there have been many, many more achievements and distinctions that have greatly influenced the evolution of watches and their production. Jaeger-LeCoultre have filed over two hundred patents and have developed more than a thousand different calibres. It is not surprising then that the luxury Jaeger-LeCoultre watches are considered by connoisseurs to be among the very best in the world.

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the MLA Ad Hoc Committee's Agenda

By Kitty Lee on September 25, 2010
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A key part of the MLA Ad Hoc Committee's agenda for developing students' translingual and transcultural competence calls for creating interdisciplinary, team-taught courses, and English scholars are well positioned to contribute to this effort. These courses, the Committee explains, would link English-language courses and credit-bearing discussion modules that together explore topics such as language acquisition theory, various popular and professional texts from the linguistic community,cartier love bracelet rose gold price, and the dominant cultural narratives shaped by these texts (Foreign 239). Byrnes has criticized the MLA Ad Hoc Committee on this point, arguing that "[interdisciplinary work will downplay the role of language and language acquisition, precisely because this is Links Of London Bracelets not the major interest of colleagues in history or art or philosophy or political science, or gender or film studies, who might contribute to this kind of interdisciplinary enterprise".

Byrnes's concern is significant, but this investment in developing multiple literacies is one that Byrnes and the Ad Hoc Committee share with English scholars, particularly those in rhetoric and composition studies. Many compositionists have begun to design vertical curricula that give students opportunities to practice writing in a variety of academic and public settings, with the aim of acquiring both advanced linguistic competencies in English and "a deep understanding of rhetorical situatedness" (Miles et al. 508). Given their commitment to teaching students both to produce texts and to gain meta-level knowledge of a language, English scholars can forge important pedagogical collaborations with foreign language scholars toward developing students' advanced literacies across linguistic and cultural contexts. Rhetoric and composition scholars could make a valuable contribution to team-teaching efforts, for example, by designing courses in which students learn about the rhetorical traditions of the language community that they are studying and also practice composing texts for multiple writing situations. These courses linking foreign languages and rhetorical education could help students learn, in David Fleming's words, what "speakers, writers, readers, and listeners need to know in order to 'become rhetorical'" within a particular linguistic and cultural community. Working with colleagues in foreign language departments, composition scholars could develop an upper-division sequence of rhetoric and writing courses through which students learn how the cultural, political,cartier love ring white gold price, and social resources of a linguistic community give shape to what Fleming calls the "argumentative form" of that group's public texts.

By performing various writing exercises in the target language, students also would sharpen their abilities to adapt the "typical moves" in the culture's "civil repertoire" to their own rhetorical purposes, all while reflecting on how their appropriation of these moves comes from within their own cultural and linguistic positioning as an "outsider." Such an interdisciplinary sequence of courses, a sequence pairing foreign language reading and writing with the study of cultural rhetorics and rhetorical theories, could deepen students' transcultural and translingual competence, as they gain advanced language literacies while also understanding how a particular language group's members reproduce their worldviews through rhetorical practice. Expanding our vision of rhetorical education in this way to include engagement with foreign language education can Links Of London Necklaces be a productive move to make as English scholars attempt to broaden the notion of "civic engagement" that a national language policy would foster.

A team taught, multilingual approach to rhetorical education would help students develop the linguistic and rhetorical skills necessary to communicate across multiple language and cultural groups. Equally as important, rhetorically based language pedagogy can heighten students' appreciation of language as a lens that shapes how people see the world and interpret experiences. The ends of such rhetorical education do not become those of acquiring language for cultural and linguistic mastery over "enemies" and "others" mastery that exacerbates global conflict. Instead, a multilingual approach to rhetorical education can foster students' commitment to cross language practices that foster deeper understanding and respect for cultural knowledge and worldviews.

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