Romantic proposal …
Romantic Reed Harris placed his girlfriend’s engagement ring in a milkshake and planned to film her delight when she found it. Unfortunately, Kaitlin Whipple 20 years, managed to swallow the diamond band whole as she raced friends to finish their dessert at a Wendy’s diner. As proposals go it was certainly memorable, but for all the wrong reasons. The couple, from Farmington – New Mexico, ended up at hospital where an x-ray confirmed what had happened.
Everything about diamonds
– they are about 4 billion years old, more than 600 times than our oldest ancestor.
– the diamonds are purely made off, for all their rarity, from one of the most familiar element on earth: carbon.
– carbon is formed in the core of dying Red Giants; when the stars explodes, they fling billions of tons of carbon into space.
– diamonds were found in South Africa in the 19th century; hundreds of thousands have been mined there.
– the word diamond came from the ancient Greek word „adamas” meaning „unconquerable” or „invincible”.
– the world’s first synthetic diamond was produced, after 5 years of attempts and millions of dollars, by General Electric which succeded in 1955.
– there are several traits which does not affect a diamond’s value; theese are: cleavage planes, natural weak spots in diamonds. But there are few which does affect, and theese are: color, clarity, carat weight and cut.
– the first diamond wedding ring proposal was in the year of 1477; the Archduke Maximillian of Austria gave the first recorded diamond wedding ring to Mary of Burgundy.
Unique collection of diamonds
Excuse me guys, it’s not Valentine’s, it’s not even my birthday … I don’t know what urge made me bring you today this article about the most beautiful rocks on the planet and the best friends of the girls – the diamonds – but enjoy theese beauties: These seven diamonds are among the most rare and valuable in the world. They are being displayed together for the first and only time through the collaborative efforts of the Smithsonian Institution, The Steinmetz Group, and the Gemological Institute of America.