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October 22, 2007
Taking more than 200 hours with more than 2,500 pieces of diamonds weighing more than 100 carats, set in 300 grams of white gold, a jewelery company in China has fashioned a dream brassiere for every woman worth $1. 334 million. Named Perfect, the bra, manufactured by Royal Décor Jewellery, was put on public when it wad demonstrated by a model at the Yibai Department Store in Jinhua city, Zhejiang province.
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September 11, 2007
Rene Caovilla, retailer of Harrods, one of London's well-known high-end stores, designed a pair of ruby, sapphire and diamond encrusted sandals worth $120,000. Caovilla ordered live Egyptian cobras to guard the shoe counter on its launching day. Security experts said that hiring a poisonous snake to guard their most precious footwear is really the most effective because no one would dare touch their most expensive sandals.
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September 3, 2007
Topics skull, gallery, london, diamonds, shark, dating, single, cow, model, god, summer, art, love and diamond
British artist Damien Hirst sold his sculpture of a diamond-encrusted skull worth $100 million, an all time high price for a piece of work sold by a single living artist, the London gallery said Thursday. Hirst named the unique piece of art, "For the Love of God. " The masterpiece is a skull cast in platinum with 8,601 diamonds. When the original skull was subjected to carbon dating for authenticity, it was found that his model dated back to the 18th century.
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July 4, 2007
A 47-year-old man from Rutland, Vermont is now facing two felony counts and a misdemeanor charge of retail theft after he reportedly exposed himself to two Victoria's Secret store clerks while trying on women's underwear. Robert K. Scott, who went to a lingerie store in the Diamond Run Mall twice, once in April and then in May, was released on conditions that he should stay away from the mall and the store.
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June 6, 2007
A 13-year-old teenager has reportedly discovered a 2. 93-carat diamond at the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro. Nicole Ruhter's diamond is a tea-colored broken pyramid shaped with several imperfections, but the to-be-eighth grader is happy to have found one. "I was kind of praying to God. I was saying, 'I don't care if it's worth whatever it's worth, I don't care if it's a tiny little sliver of something, I just want something,'" she told the AP of her find. "Ten minutes later, I just found it. "
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