There has been some controversy regarding the actual weight of the stone ; Morel believed that the 112 carats stated in Tavernier's invoice would be in old French carats, thus 115. 28 metric carats.

After leaving the Rank Organisation in the early 1960s, Bogarde abandoned his heart-throb image for more challenging parts, such as barrister Melville Farr in Victim ( 1961 ), directed by Basil Dearden ; decadent valet Hugo Barrett in The Servant ( 1963 ), which garnered him a BAFTA Award, directed by Joseph Losey and written by Harold Pinter ; The Mind Benders ( 1963 ), a film ahead of its times in which Bogarde plays an Oxford professor conducting sensory deprivation experiments at Oxford University ( precursor to Altered States ( 1980 )); the anti-war film King & Country ( 1964 ), playing an army lawyer reluctantly defending deserter Tom Courtenay, directed by Joseph Losey ; a television broadcaster-writer Robert Gold in Darling ( 1965 ), for which Bogarde won a second BAFTA Award, directed by John Schlesinger ; Stephen, a bored Oxford University professor, in Losey's Accident, ( 1967 ) also written by Pinter ; Our Mother's House ( 1967 ), an off-beat film-noir directed by Jack Clayton in which Bogarde plays an n ' er do well father who descends upon " his " seven children on the death of their mother, British entry at the Venice Film Festival ; German industrialist Frederick Bruckmann in Luchino Visconti's La Caduta degli dei, The Damned ( 1969 ) co-starring Ingrid Thulin ; as ex-Nazi, Max Aldorfer, in the chilling and controversial Il Portiere di notte, The Night Porter ( 1974 ), co-starring Charlotte Rampling, directed by Liliana Cavani ; and most notably, as Gustav von Aschenbach in Morte a Venezia, Death in Venice ( 1971 ), also directed by Visconti ; as Claude, the lawyer son of a dying, drunken writer ( John Gielgud ) in the well-received, multi-dimensional French film Providence ( 1977 ), directed by Alain Resnais ; as industrialist Hermann Hermann who descends into madness in Despair ( 1978 ) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder ; and as Daddy in Bertrand Tavernier's Daddy Nostalgie, ( aka These Foolish Things ) ( 1991 ), co-starring Jane Birkin as his daughter, Bogarde's final film role.

Tavernier's population was 2, 173 at the 2000 census.

Schneider starred in Bertrand Tavernier's Death Watch ( La mort en direct, 1980 ) playing a dying woman whose last days are watched on national television via a camera implanted in the brain of a journalist ( Harvey Keitel ).

In France, where the film was called Meurtres en direct, it was compared negatively to Bertrand Tavernier's La Mort en direct, as did Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic.

In 1986 he appeared with Dexter Gordon in Bertrand Tavernier's film " Round Midnight.

But he may be best known for his roles as Alfredo in Cinema Paradiso, Pablo Neruda in Il Postino, and Major Dellaplane in Bertrand Tavernier's Life and Nothing But.

A principal character in the book " Six Suspects " ( ISBN 0-385-60815-2 ) by Vikas Swarup is from the Andaman Islands.

His book, Opticorum Libri Sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles ( Six Books of Optics, useful for philosophers and mathematicians alike ), published in Antwerp in 1613, was illustrated by famous painter Peter Paul Rubens.

Hegel, French materialist and utilitarian philosophe Claude Adrien Helvétius, Swiss collectivist philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French utopian socialist Henri de Saint-Simon, and Savoyard conservative Joseph de Maistre as thinkers who constituted the ideological basis for modern authoritarianism, in his book Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty.

* Six livres de la république, or La République, Republic in English, a 1577 book by Jean Bodin

Chapter Six of Leo Brodie's book Thinking Forth ( 1984 ) is dedicated to the subject.

Germaine Tailleferre of the French group Les Six wrote several works which could be considered to be inspired by Surrealism, including the 1948 Ballet Paris-Magie ( scenario by Lise Deharme ), the Operas La Petite Sirène ( book by Philippe Soupault ) and Le Maître ( book by Eugène Ionesco ).

( Contradiction: In The Bear and the Dragon it states Ryan has been President for 15 months and that book occurs after Rainbow Six which must occur 1999-2000 due to the Olympics in Sydney.

In the book Rainbow Six, Rainbow is first put into operation.

He is a simulated major general in the Rainbow Six book, though he only reached the rank of Chief Boatswain's Mate ( Chief Petty Officer ) during his Naval career.

She is best known for the Pippi Longstocking, Karlsson-on-the-Roof and the Six Bullerby Children book series.

The three inventors released a book, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon ( ISBN 9780452278448 ), with an introduction written by Bacon.

Six years later, in October 1769, Lavater sent Mendelssohn his German translation of Charles Bonnet's essay on Christian Evidences, with a preface where he publicly challenged Mendelssohn to refute Bonnet or if he could not then to " do what wisdom, the love of truth and honesty must bid him, what a Socrates would have done if he had read the book and found it unanswerable ".

The book was Rainbow Six so the game was renamed Rainbow Six.

He is author of the book Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age and Everything is Obvious * Once You Know the Answer: How Common Sense Fails Us ( ISBN 978-0385531689 ).

It is also mentioned in Jean Bodin's book Six livres de la République in 1576.

Sting was also featured in Levitin's second book, The World in Six Songs, where several of his songs ( including " Russians ") are discussed.

" Irving testified for Zündel between 22 – 26 April 1988, where he endorsed Richard Harwood's book Did Six Million Really Die?

" Nixon wrote Six Crises, his response to Kennedy's book, after visiting Kennedy at the White House in April 1961.

The title of a book in the fictional series in the comic strip Peanuts, " The Six Bunny Wunnies ," is The Six Bunnie-Wunnies and Their Layover in Anderson, Indiana.

In 1992, a year after Alison Weir's book The Six Wives of Henry VIII, she published a book with the same title.

The book, first printed in the city of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, includes in its second part, a translation to Latin of the Quattuor Americi Vespuccij navigationes ( Four Voyages of Americo Vespucci ), which is apparently a letter written by Amerigo Vespucci, although some historians consider it to have been a forgery written by its supposed recipient in Italy.

The book reveals that the events of the holo-program from " These Are the Voyages " are a deliberate lie.

Engraving in British cartographer John Hamilton Moore's 1778 book Voyages and Travels labeled " Natives of the Caribee, feasting on human flesh ".

Newfoundland marine insurance agent and historian William A. Munn ( 1864 – 1939 ), after studying literary sources in Europe, suggested in his 1914 book " Wineland Voyages: Location of Helluland, Markland & Vinland " that the Vinland explorers " went ashore at Lancey Meadows, as it is called today ".

In the Paramount-licensed Star Trek comic book series published by Marvel Comics, Star Trek: Early Voyages chronicled the adventures of the Enterprise under the command of Pike.

She worked with him in the British Library in the 1940s as he collected source material for his anthology A Book of Voyages, which became the first book to bear his new name — the book was among his favourites, because of this close collaboration.

The book that Bemis was reading in the vault and that flips open when the bomb explodes is The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving.

Her story is also used as the common thread for the non-fiction book The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman, by Nancy Marie Brown.

In 1940, Morison published Portuguese Voyages to America in the Fifteenth Century, a book that presaged his succeeding publications on the great explorer, Christopher Columbus.

A 1996 book written to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Star Trek is called Star Trek: These are the Voyages ....

In Hugh Lofting's book The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle it was mentioned by Tommy Stubbins that treacle tart is one of Doctor John Dolittle's favorite dishes.

In the Star Trek: Early Voyages comic book series she is called Lieutenant Commander Robbins.

* Holy War: How Vasco Da Gama's Epic Voyages turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations, a 2001 book by Nigel Cliff

However, Samuel Eliot Morrison dismissed this evidence in his book The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages ( 1971 ).

In 1832 a book by Auguste de Labouïsse-Rochefort entitled Voyages à Rennes-les-Bains first referred to a treasure located at Mont Blanchefort, whereby a story was told about a wizard who nearly succeeded in taking the purse-strings of the Devil, but failed because the local villagers did not help him at the crucial moment-Auguste de Labouïsse-Rochefort had married a daughter of a millionaire that had lost his fortune.

His travels in the Baltic region and Russia are recounted in his book Voyages et Ambassades, published in Mons in 1840 with subsequent editions.

According to his book Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832 and 1833, with notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands ( Desert Island Books, Westcliff-on-Sea, 2002 ), he was the first Protestant missionary who had visited Korea in 1832.

Theodor de Bry produced illustrative engravings of Staden's story for his book Grand Voyages to America ( 1593 ), volume 3.

In Voyages of Discovery: A Manly Adventure in the Lands Down Under, a book about adventuring and masculinity, Ken Ewell described " Maximum Homerdrive " as a " fine example " of " the poor man's lack of travel acumen.

He published a book, Itinerario in 1596 ( later published as an English edition as Discours of Voyages into Y East & West Indies ) which graphically displayed for the first time in Europe, detailed maps of voyages to the East Indies, particularly India.

His book illustrations include those commissioned by the Paris publisher Ollendorff ( Les conteurs joyeux ), and famously, those utilized for Juan Pérez Zúñiga's Los viajes morrocotudos (" The Fantastic Voyages ").

Illustration from Gass's 1807 book " A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery " about the Lewis and Clark expedition