Sterling gold and silver are known to man since the Stone Age.

Sterling silver ( stamped 925 ) is harder than pure silver, and has a lower melting point ( 893 ° C ) than either pure silver or pure copper.

With the addition of germanium, the patented modified alloy Argentium Sterling silver is formed, with improved properties, including resistance to firescale.

In the 12th century, Henry II established the Sterling Silver standard for English coinage, of 92. 5 % silver and 7. 5 % copper, replacing the earlier mediæval use of fine silver.

In the 12th century a new standard for English coinage was established by Henry II — the Sterling Silver standard of 92. 5 % silver and 7. 5 % copper.

Special editions have included gold plated, brass finished and Sterling silver versions, which have appeared in a variety of designs.

The jewellery is all hand-made, consisting of diamonds, gemstones, semi-precious stones, 18K gold, Sterling silver, enamel and ceramic.

Sterling silver should never be used in the cooking, serving or eating of lutefisk, which will permanently ruin silver.

Sterling silver and pewter will oxidize and discolour from the heat.

* Sterling silver, a grade of silver

For silver crowns, the grade of silver adhered to the long-standing standard ( established in the 12th century by Henry II ) – the Sterling Silver standard of 92. 5 % silver and 7. 5 % copper.

He unofficially moved the Pound Sterling to the gold standard from silver in 1717.

The bottom example shows the extra marks that can also be struck, the lion passant, indicating Sterling silver, the date mark ( lowercase a for ' 2000 '), and in this example, the ' Millennium mark ', which was only available for the years 1999 and 2000.

Sterling silver kiddush cup

Sterling silver kiddish cup

Sterling silver candlestick, one of a pair.

* Sterling Jewelers, the largest retail jewelry company in the United States

As a poet, Smith is grouped with the West Coast Romantics ( alongside Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Sterling, Nora May French, and others ) and remembered as ' The Last of the Great Romantics ' and ' The Bard of Auburn '.

Bruce Sterling in his universe of Shaper / Mechanist suggested an idea of alternative cyborg called Lobster, which is made not by using internal implants, but by using an external shell ( e. g. a Powered Exoskeleton ).

The desk officer using the telephone is Ford Sterling.

The policeman directly behind Sterling ( in extreme background, left ) is Edgar Kennedy.

Twisted Brown Trucker is Kid Rock's band, formed in 1994 in Sterling Heights, Michigan.

But caution is needed when assessing any literary movement, for example science fiction writer Bruce Sterling, reacting to his association with another SF movement in the 1980s remarked:

* 1992 – Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Suffolk at current basic prices published ( pp. 240 – 253 ) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

* British Pound Sterling ( currency ) is introduced.

London reportedly complained to friends Joseph Noel and George Sterling that, " is devoted to purity.

The county's economy is particularly susceptible, just like that of Derry City, to the currency fluctuations of the Euro against Sterling.

Sidney Altman ( born May 7, 1939 ) is a Canadian American molecular biologist, who is currently the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University.

* Grey Gables, once a country club, is now a luxurious hotel in Ambridge, run by Caroline Sterling, née Bone.

In the steampunk 1990 novel The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, a character named Gautier is a clacker, a " hacker " of steam-powered computers capable of forging identities and sabotaging the Imperial Engines.

Its county seat is Mount Sterling.

With regard to the sale of alcohol, it is classified as a moist county — a county in which alcohol sales are prohibited ( a dry county ), but containing a " wet " city where package alcohol sales are allowed, in this case Mount Sterling.

Montgomery County is part of the Mount Sterling Micropolitan Statistical Area.

During Wilkes-Barre's reign as an industrial and economic force in America, a number of franchises decided to plant their roots in the city, such as ; Woolworth's, Sterling Hotels, Planter's Peanuts, Miner's Bank, Bell Telephone, HBO, Luzerne National Bank, Stegmaier, and the demolished Old Fell House on Northampton St is believed to be the first place in the entire world Anthracite was burned for heat.

The name " Beowulf " comes from the main character in the Old English epic poem Beowulf, which was bestowed by Sterling because the eponymous hero is described as having " thirty men's heft of grasp in the gripe of his hand ".

He was succeeded by James Turner, who expanded the company's range of authors to include such prominent science fiction and fantasy writers as Michael Bishop, Lucius Shepard, Bruce Sterling, James Tiptree, Jr., Michael Shea and J. G. Ballard, often publishing hardcover collections of shorter works.

Sterling Hayden often professed distaste for film acting, claiming he did it mainly to pay for his ships and voyages.

Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era, often referred to as Rascal, is a 1963 children's book by Sterling North about his childhood in Wisconsin.

Neighbor women, such as Mrs. Sidney Baker, 2269 Serra, Sterling Township, have been supplying the family with meals and handling household chores with Kowalski's sister-in-law, Mrs. Anna Kowalski, 22111 David, East Detroit.

Another neighbor, Mrs. Frank C. Smith, 2731 Pall Mall, Sterling Township, surprised Kowalski by coming to the home yesterday with $135 collected locally toward the $400 funeral costs.

In his later youth, Smith made the acquaintance of the San Francisco poet George Sterling through a member of the local Auburn Monday Night Club, where he read several of his poems with considerable success.

Atchison actively recruited State Guardsmen in northern Missouri and served with Missouri State Guard commander General Sterling Price in the summer campaign of 1861.

Bowie ( left ) on-stage with Sterling Campbell during the Heathen Tour in 2002.

The short, filmed in 1914, stars Ford Sterling, Mack Swain, Edgar Kennedy, and Al St. John and includes a previously unknown cameo with Charlie Chaplin as a Keystone Kop.

* The Gangsters ( 1913 ) with Roscoe Arbuckle, Ford Sterling, and Al St. John

Many important actors started their careers with Sennett, including Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Raymond Griffith, Gloria Swanson, Ford Sterling, Andy Clyde, Chester Conklin, Polly Moran, Louise Fazenda, The Keystone Kops, Bing Crosby, and W. C. Fields.

Fabio Buzzi took a giant step forward with the introduction of glass-reinforced polymer hulls, turbo-charged engines, and integral surface drives and the 90's subsequently saw the emergence of the Michael Peter's design and Tencara and Victory hulls dominate, with Sterling, Lamborghini, Seatek and more recently, Mercury sharing the power battle.

In the NFC, Dallas ' first opponent in the playoffs was the Green Bay Packers, who were coming off a thrilling 28-24 win over the Detroit Lions in the wildcard round in which quarterback Brett Favre had thrown the winning touchdown pass to Sterling Sharpe with only 55 seconds left in the game.

* Titan, a banknote with a nominal value of 100 million Pounds Sterling

The books were adapted into an American television series, Topper, beginning in 1953, with Leo G. Carroll as Cosmo Topper, and Robert Sterling and Anne Jeffreys as the ghosts.

After expanding on Neuromancer with two more novels to complete the dystopic Sprawl trilogy, Gibson became an important author of another science fiction sub-genre — steampunk — with the 1990 alternate history novel The Difference Engine, written with Bruce Sterling.

London ( right ) at the Bohemian Grove with his friends Porter Garnett and George Sterling ; a painting parodies his story The White Silence

On August 18, 1904, London went with his close friend, the poet George Sterling, to " Summer High Jinks " at the Bohemian Grove.

While attending Rockingham she began dating and had her first serious relationship, with a trumpet player named Ray Sterling.