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Land of the Lustrous (Japanese: 宝石の国, Hepburn: Hōseki no Kuni, lit. ' Land of Jewels ') is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Haruko Ichikawa [].It was published by Kodansha in Monthly Afternoon magazine from October 2012 to April 2024, with its chapters collected in thirteen tankōbon volumes.
The c. 3rd–1st century BCE Chuci ("Songs of Chu") mentions the paired gems, "Shards and stones are prized as jewels / Sui and He rejected". This poetic anthology also says, "It grieves me that shining pearls [明珠] should be cast out in the mire / While worthless fish-eye stones are treasured in a strong-box", and describes a flying chariot ...
The Helvellyn gas field was discovered in Block 47/10a in 1985. It was developed by ATP Oil & Gas Corporation as a subsea wellhead in 2004 with production routed to Amethyst A2D. [5] The Rose gas field (Block 47/15) comprised a single subsea well tied back to the Amethyst A2D platform via a 9.042 km, 10” pipeline.
The Empress of Uruguay is the world's largest amethyst geode, standing at a height of 3.27 meters. It is open along its length and weighs 2.5 tons in its current state. It was discovered in 2007 in the Artigas department, Uruguay by the Uruguayan mining company Le Stage Minerals.
Shard Riverside Inn is a public house and boutique hotel in the English village of Hambleton, Lancashire. Dating to 1766, [ 1 ] it stands on the northern banks of the River Wyre , about 600 feet (180 m) east of Shard Bridge , for which it is named.
An amethyst stone from South Africa. Amethyste or Amethystos (Ancient Greek: Ἀμέθυστη, romanized: Améthustē, lit. 'non-drunk') is supposedly a nymph in Greek mythology who was turned into a precious stone by the goddess Diana/Artemis in order to avoid a worse fate at the hands of the god Dionysus, thus explaining the origin of the semi-precious stone amethyst.
Must Farm is a Bronze Age archaeological site consisting of five houses raised on stilts above a river and built around 950 BC in Cambridgeshire, England. [1] The settlement is exceptionally well preserved because of its sudden destruction by catastrophic fire and subsequent collapse onto oxygen-depleted river silts .
Bedrock is a design of bench planes developed by Stanley Works as an attempt to improve over the Bailey plane design. It was introduced in the early 20th century. [1] The main difference of the Bedrock design was in the frog, which holds the blade also known as an iron. A characteristic of the Bailey design is that the frog is secured to the ...