Rubies over 10 carat ( 2 g ) with large fractures were filled with lead glass, thus dramatically improving the appearance ( of larger rubies in particular ).

Yakin went back to his youth for inspiration on his next project ; while his parents were non-practicing Jews, they enrolled their son in an Orthodox private school when he was five, and his experience with the Chassidic community informed his screenplay for A Price Above Rubies.

Manning's first published works were three serialised detective novels, Rose of Rubies, Here is Murder and The Black Scarab which appeared in the Portsmouth News beginning in 1929 under the pseudonym Jacob Morrow.

The ' Rubies ' were named after the garnets found by early explorers.

* Rubies of the Viper ( 2010 ) by Martha Marks ; interwoven stories of a Roman woman who inherits a fortune when her brother is murdered and a Greek slave she inherits as part of the estate ; set in AD 53-56.

Rubies, emeralds, and the Hope Diamond exhibit red fluorescence under short-wave UV light ; diamonds also emit light under X ray radiation.

Rubies are the biggest earner ; 90 % of the world's rubies come from the country, whose red stones are prized for their purity and hue.

Burma's " Valley of Rubies ", the mountainous Mogok area, north of Mandalay, is noted for its rare pigeon's blood rubies and blue sapphires.

Alpha Phi Omega, Little Sisters of the Gold Rose, Little Sisters of the Pearls and Rubies, and Cosmopolitan International.

Rubies have a hardness of 9. 0 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.

Rubies have historically been mined in Thailand, the Pailin and Samlout District of Cambodia, Burma, India, Afghanistan and in Pakistan.

Image: Ruby and diamond bracelet. jpg | Rubies set in jewelry

Rubies are also used in applications where high hardness is required such as at wear exposed locations in modern mechanical clockworks, or as scanning probe tips in a coordinate measuring machine.

Rubies at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D. C., USA

* Rubies have always been held in high esteem in Asian countries.

" Appearances include The Beginning, Plunder Down Under, Valley of the Hungry Dunes, Never Give a Villain a Fair Shake, No Such Loch, The Inhuman Race, Fountain of Terror, Ship of Terror, Queen's Ransom, Avalanche Run, Barbella's Big Attraction, Invaders from S. C. U. M., Ol ' Man River, Catching the Wave, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Sherlock IQ, Quantum Diamonds, Rubies Aren't Forever, The Thing in the Ice, Monument to S. C. U. M.

Appearances include Live and Let's Dance, Dance of the Toreadors, Scottish Mist, Catching the Wave, Sherlock IQ, Rubies Aren't Forever and Northern Lights.

Appearances include Dance of the Toreadors, Rubies Aren't Forever and Dutch Treat.

* Rubies of the Viper ( 2010 ) by Martha Marks.

Poppaea also is one of several real-life characters in Rubies of the Viper, an historical mystery / romantic-suspense novel by Martha Marks.

Although because of the important achievements of nineteenth century scholars in the field of textual criticism the advance is not so striking as it was in the case of archaeology and place-names, the editorial principles laid down by Stevenson in his great edition of Asser and in his Crawford Charters were a distinct improvement upon those of his predecessors and remain unimproved upon today.

He and other Soviet leaders responsible for the document were proud of having brought forward some new formulas, such as the early replacement of the dictatorship of the proletariat by an `` All People's State '', and also of having laid down the lines for a much greater `` democratization '' of the whole hierarchy of Soviets, starting with the Supreme Soviet itself.

Eight years ago while we were going through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period, we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table laid out nearby for the lord and master's delectation.

Oersted's own earlier experiments were unimpressive, possibly because he had, like other experimenters, laid the conducting wire across the compass needle instead of parallel with it.

The novel opens with a fugitive convict frantically trying to avoid the nemesis of being `` laid hands on '' -- a mysterious figure who looks into Pip's frightened eyes in the churchyard `` as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in ''.

In 1957 Nixon delivered a significant opinion that a majority of Senators had the power to adopt new rules at the beginning of each new Congress, and that any rules laid down by previous Congresses were not binding.

As the plans were laid, some several thousand fat cats were to be ensconced in the armory's $100 seats and in 68 ringside boxes priced at $10,000 each.

In this way they laid claim to new discoveries, before their results were ready for publication.

Game reserves have, however, been established in South Africa, British Central Africa, British East Africa, Somaliland, etc., while measures for the protection of wild animals were laid down in an international convention signed in May 1900.

Administrative law, as laid down by the Supreme Court of India, has also recognized two more grounds of judicial review which were recognized but not applied by English Courts viz.

* Excavated tombs ; Of either the pit, chamber or the tholos kind, in which the dead were laid, together with various objects of use and luxury, without cremation, and in either coffins or loculi or simple wrappings.

This project was developed in response to traffic congestion on Boston's historically tangled streets, which were laid out long before the advent of the automobile.

The medieval European Knights Templar ran an early prototype of a central banking system, as their promises to pay were widely respected, and many regard their activities as having laid the basis for the modern banking system.

In 1482 the relics were placed in a new shrine and laid beneath the altar of the crypt.

Chicago's streets were laid out in a street grid that grew from the city's original townsite plat.

As new additions to the city were platted, city ordinance required them to be laid out with eight streets to the mile in one direction and 16 in the other direction.

The War of the Austrian Succession saw Britain and France in conflict with each other, and in 1745 several warships and a small contingent of troops were sent from Boston, first to the Nova Scotian fishing port of Canso, and on to Louisbourg where they laid siege to the fortress until the French surrendered and were evacuated.

In October 2007, the Catfish Bend Casino in Burlington, Iowa, notified its staff that the casino was closing and they were going to be laid off.

The laws (-thesmoi ) he laid down were the first written constitution of Athens.

Wet docks were where ships were laid up at anchor and loaded or unloaded.

This was probably due to the custom of fighting in plate armour, where cutting attacks were ineffective and focus was laid instead on thrusts with narrow blades aimed at armour plate intersections ( or the eye slits of the helmet visor ).