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Dan Plazak, A Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top ISBN 978-0-87480-840-7 (contains a chapter on the great diamond hoax) Harpending, Asbury. "The Great Diamond Hoax and Other Stirring Episodes in the Life of Asbury Harpending - An Epic of Early California - Edited by James H. Wilkins". San Francisco: James H. Barry Press. 1913
Philip Arnold (c. 1829–1878) was a confidence trickster [citation needed] from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and the brains behind the legendary diamond hoax of 1872, which fooled people into investing in a phony diamond mining operation. He managed to walk away from the hoax with more than half a million dollars.
The British crown jewels contain the Cullinan Diamond, part of the largest gem-quality rough diamond ever found (1905), at 3,106.75 carats (621.35 g). A diamond solitaire engagement ring. Now popular in engagement rings, this usage dates back to the marriage of Maximilian I to Mary of Burgundy in 1477. [17]
So 30 years ago, when one London-based woman found a huge, gorgeous and fake diamond ring at a car boot sale (almost the equivalent of an American flea market), she knew she just had to have it.
A profoundly curious gem is up for auction. The pear-shaped jewel called "the Enigma," cut with 55 gleaming sides, is dark and cryptic. The fine art company Sotheby's calls the unusual diamond ...
A new true-crime podcast about the theft of iconic Austrian empress Sisi’s diamond in the 1990s is set to launch on Curiouscast later this month. Written by Emma Jane Kirby and hosted by Seren ...
The game's PC version received an aggregate score of 70/100 on Metacritic, indicating "mixed to average" reviews. [1]Peter Glagowski of TheGamer rated the game 4/5 stars, calling it short but "refreshingly stylistic", and praising the story as "rather cool", but noting that there was little that the game had changed about the base game of solitaire and that skilled players could "blitz" the ...
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