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Hildibrand Manderville was created for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV. In the original version, he was in charge of quests that players must do in order to get private inn rooms in the game. He was eventually featured in the reboot of the game, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, with a new sidequest.
"Girasol opal" is a term sometimes mistakenly and improperly used to refer to fire opals, as well as a type of transparent to semitransparent type milky quartz from Madagascar which displays an asterism, or star effect when cut properly. However, the true girasol opal [15] is a type of hyalite opal that exhibits a bluish glow or sheen that ...
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A drawing from the Catalog of the Royal Armoury of Madrid by the medievalist Achille Jubinal in the 19th century. The original specimen was destroyed by a fire in 1884. The maquahuitl (Classical Nahuatl: māccuahuitl, other orthographic variants include mākkwawitl and mācquahuitl; plural māccuahuimeh), [4] a type of macana, was a common weapon used by the Aztec military forces and other ...
The flight system executes the laser downlink, which is received by the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory (OCTL) in Wrightwood, California, where the OPALS ground system is located; The information is finally given to the principal investigator of the OPALS mission for the team to analyze; This process is executed in a matter of ...
The Halley's Comet Opal is a very fine specimen, with few flaws or blemishes and a large green and orange 1.6 cm (0.63 in) thick color bar which goes through the opal. Formed about 20 million years ago, it is an example of a nobby, which is a natural lump-shaped opal found only at Lightning Ridge. [2] As of 2006 it was for sale at $1.2 million. [3]
Hyalite is a transparent form of opal with a glassy lustre. It may exhibit an internal play of colors if natural inclusions are present. It is also called Muller's glass, water opal, and jalite. Müller's glass is named after its discoverer, Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein.
The Galaxy Opal is the world's largest polished opal, certified by the Guinness Book of World Records in 1992. [1] It was found at the Boi Morto Mine in Brazil in 1976. [ 2 ] The finished opal weighs approximately 3,749 carats , or 0.75 kg.