Amber is fossilized tree resin ( not sap ), which has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times.

Amber has often been imitated by other resins like copal and kauri, as well as by celluloid and even glass.

Amber has been used since antiquity in the manufacture of jewelry and ornaments, and also in folk medicine.

Amber has been used as an ingredient in perfumes.

Amber has long been used in folk medicine for its purported healing properties.

Since 1983 it has been part of the parliamentary constituency of Hastings and Rye ; the current MP, since 2010, is Amber Rudd of the Conservative Party.

While international trade has been present throughout much of history ( see Silk Road, Amber Road ), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries.

US Grade A Light Amber has to be more than 75 percent translucent, US Grade A Medium Amber has to be 60. 5 to 74. 9 percent translucent, US Grade A Dark Amber has to be 44. 0 to 60. 4 percent translucent, and US Grade B is any product less than 44. 0 percent translucent.

Amber has been found in the area for over two thousand years, especially on the coast near Kaliningrad.

While international trade has been present throughout much of history ( see Silk Road, Amber Road ), its economic, social, and political importance have increased in recent centuries, mainly because of Industrialization, advanced transportation, globalization, multinational corporations, and outsourcing.

: Brett Clemmens: Becky has tossed her food tray in, splattering Amber who's working in the cafeteria with its contents-Brett looks apologetic Oh man ... you got some lutefisk in your hair.

Corwin has escaped the dungeons of Amber, where he was imprisoned by his hated brother Eric, who had seized the throne of Amber.

But Corwin has secret knowledge: in the shadow world of Avalon, where he once ruled, there exists a jeweler's rouge that will function in Amber as gunpowder should.

He eventually returns to Amber, which is in mourning: the news has just come that Caine has been murdered, and Bleys injured, by a mystery assassin with a rifle-an assassin who demonstrates ( with a thrown bomb at Caine's funeral, which misses any other family members ) that he has access to something with explosive properties in Amber.

Amber ornaments have been found in Mycenaean tombs and elsewhere across Europe.

Dulli had been working on another project entitled Amber Headlights ( which would later see the light of day in 2005 ), but abandoned those sessions due to Demme's death.

Several " Chronicles of Amber " omnibus anthologies have also been published collecting the 5 novels from the original ' Corwin cycle ' or all 5 novels of the ' Merlin cycle ' or ( as in The Great Book of Amber ) all 10 novels.

He soon finds that Luke is in fact Rinaldo, son of Brand of Amber, and has been responsible for yearly attempts on his life, on the anniversary of when Luke found out about Brand's death.

Merlin returns to his birthplace in the Courts of Chaos in order to solve the existential riddle in which he is involved-to find that he is suddenly a lot closer to the throne of Chaos itself than he thought, King Swayvill having finally died of a long-standing illness ( aggravated, it is said, by the death curse of Eric of Amber ), and many other candidates having either been assassinated or dropped out, which pushes his own house of Sawall unexpectedly to the forefront.

The city of Fairmont itself has been built around a chain of five lakes: Lake George, Sisseton Lake, Budd Lake, Hall Lake, and Amber Lake.

They were soon joined by a handful of London acts such as Bees Make Honey, Max Merritt and the Meteors, Ducks Deluxe, The Amber Squad and Brinsley Schwarz who had been victims of the prevailing big-venue system.

The Palace Cinema has since been converted to become Rififi Nightclub and Amber Lounge Bar & Restaurant.

The setting of her involvement with the League begins with her divorce from Charles after he is caught in the act in a brothel kept by former League member Amber St. Clare, and is shown to have been sexually involved with both Gulliver and Captain Clegg nearly 40 years before the second League was founded.

Corwin contacts Gérard via Trump, and learns that because of the time differential between Amber and Chaos he has been missing for eight days.

Brown has been signed to a number of record labels during her career including Virgin Records, Independent record label, Amber Café and her latest record deal EMI Music, which she signed in judged for X Factor Australia in 2012.

Amber is used as an ingredient in perfumes, as a healing agent in folk medicine, and as jewelry.

Amber and extracts were used from the time of Hippocrates in ancient Greece for a wide variety of treatments through the Middle Ages and up until the early twentieth century.

" Amber " perfumes may be created using combinations of labdanum, benzoin resin, copal ( itself a type of tree resin used in incense manufacture ), vanilla, Dammara resin and / or synthetic materials.

One of the oldest directions of the last stage of the Amber Road to the south of Danube, noted in the myth about the Argonauts, used Sava and Kupa rivers

] When he had done eating, he usually took a Kind of Chocolate, made after the Manner of the Country, that is, the Substance of the Nut beat up with the Mill till the Cup was filled more with Froth than with Liquor ; after which he used to smoak Tobacco perfum'd with liquid Amber.

Many of the extras were recruited by Amber Rudd who is described in the credits as " Aristocracy Co-ordinator "— among those used were Lords Burlington and Woolton.

All except Amber Lake are connected by channels and are used extensively for recreational boating and fishing.

Amber ale is a term used in Australia, France and North America for pale ales brewed with a proportion of crystal malt to produce an amber colour generally ranging from light copper to light brown.

In France the term " ambrée " is used to signify a beer, either cold or warm fermented, which is amber in colour ; the beer, as in Pelforth Ambrée and Fischer Amber, may be a Vienna lager, or it may be a Bière de Garde as in Jenlain Ambrée.

Roger Zelazny used a mythic cosmology in his Chronicles of Amber series.

* Molly Bloom's soliloquy was also used as the basis for a dance song by Amber, titled " Yes.

* For many years Fred Flintstone and other characters from the show were used to advertise ' Amber ', an Australian company that sold pavers and tiles.

Amber was traded as well, but small fossil deposits may have been used as well as Baltic amber.

He became romantically entangled with the shapeshifting reptilian mutant, Amber, who was the only mutant student to remain at ESU when they shut down their mutant program, but the relationship quickly ended before it began when Amber came to believe he was only interested in her when she used her shape-shifting abilities to take on a more conventionally attractive form.

The QMAR belt is Black with a central Amber stripe as used by the original Queen Alexandra ’ s Mounted Rifles, they are also the colours of the Taranaki, where the unit ’ s foundations were laid in the early 1860s.

The group launched a new service in 1995 called Amber Radio, with studios in Ipswich and Norwich, on the AM transmitters previously used to simulcast the SGR stations ; these later became Classic Gold and then Gold.

Amber is one of several technically defined colors used in automotive signal lamps.

Amber is commonly used for inlays in metal jewelry or in plugs made of horn, bone or wood etc., but there are also massive amber plugs.

Shekha ’ s reputation and growing power were noticed by the Ruler of Amber, whom up to this time, they had acknowledged as head ( Tikai ) of Kachawa Dynasty, and used to send as a tribute all the colts reared on their land.

The castle, like today's city, has been inhabited for thousands of years, because it is strategically located in the center of Europe at a passage between the Carpathians and the Alps, at a very important ford used to cross the Danube river, and at an important crossing of central European ancient ( trade ) routes running from the Balkans or the Adriatic Sea to the Rhine river or the Baltic Sea, the most important route being the Amber Route.