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

It was followed by " Hope ", " Diligence " and " Black Diamond ".

* 1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.

* 1792 – The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house used to store them.

Current photographs of the Hope Diamond utilize high-intensity light sources that tend to maximize the brilliance of gemstones.

In popular literature, many superlatives have been used to describe the Hope Diamond as a " superfine deep blue ", often comparing it to the color of a fine sapphire " blue of the most beautiful blue sapphire " ( Deulafait ), and describing its color as " a sapphire blue ".

The Hope Diamond in 1974.

Diamonds in general, including the Hope Diamond, are considered to be the hardest natural mineral on the Earth, but because of diamond's crystalline structure, there are weak planes in the bonds which permit jewelers to slice a diamond and, in so doing, to cause it to sparkle by refracting light in different ways.

The Hope Diamond was formed deep within the Earth approximately 1. 1 billion years ago.

The Hope Diamond contains trace amount of boron atoms intermixed with the carbon structure, which results in the blue color of the diamond, according to the Smithsonian.

But the first historical records suggest that a French merchant-traveler named Jean-Baptiste Tavernier obtained the stone, possibly by purchase or by theft, and he brought a large uncut stone to Paris which was the first known precursor to the Hope Diamond.

But the exact rock known as the French Blue was never seen again, since it almost certainly was recut during this decades-long period of anonymity, probably into two pieces, and the larger one became the Hope Diamond.

" It had long been believed that the Hope Diamond had been cut from the French Blue until confirmation finally happened when a three-dimensional leaden model of the latter was rediscovered in the archives of the French Natural History Museum in Paris in 2005.

Previously, the dimensions of the French Blue had been known only from two drawings made in 1749 and 1789 ; although the model slightly differs from the drawings in some details, these details are identical to features of the Hope Diamond, allowing CAD technology to digitally reconstruct the French Blue around the recut stone.

However, this smaller diamond's present whereabouts are unknown, and the recent CAD reconstruction of the French Blue fits too tightly around the Hope Diamond to allow for the existence of a sister stone of that size.

A blue diamond with the same shape, size, and color as the Hope Diamond was recorded by John Francillon in the possession of the London diamond merchant Daniel Eliason in September 1812, the earliest point when the history of the Hope Diamond can be definitively fixed, although a second less definitive report suggests that the Hope Diamond's " authentic history " can only be traced back to 1830.

While the diamond had disappeared for several decades, there were questions whether this recovered diamond in Britain was exactly the same one as had belonged to the French king, but subsequent scientific investigation in 2008 confirmed " beyond reasonable doubt " that the Hope Diamond and that owned by the French king were, in fact, the same gemstone in the sense that the Hope Diamond had been cut from the same material as the French Blue.

But court adjourned after he testified he introduced James White and Jeremiah Hope Pullings, two of the defendants, and also introduced Pullings to Jessy Maroy, a man mentioned in the indictment but not indicted.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in Work Without Hope ( 1825 ), also refers to the herb, likely referencing Milton's earlier work.

Capp portrayed himself in a cameo role in the Bob Hope film That Certain Feeling, ( for which he also provided promotional art ).

The album spawned three additional Top 10 Country hits, including two number-one hits between 1997 and 1998, " Two Pina Coladas " and " To Make You Feel My Love ", which also was a Top 10 hit on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and was released on the soundtrack to the movie Hope Floats.

He was also the featured singer at the Concert of Hope immediately preceding Pope Benedict XVI's Mass at Yankee Stadium in April 2008.

Due to its consistency of climate, flora and fauna, geology and land use, " Lower Mainland " is also the name of an ecoregion — a biogeoclimatic region — that comprises the eastern part of the Georgia Depression and extends from Powell River on the Sunshine Coast to Hope at the eastern end of the Fraser Valley.

Motley in 1839 wrote a novel, Morton's Hope, or the Memoirs of a Provincial about life in a German university in which he described Bismarck as a reckless and dashing eccentric, but also as an extremely gifted and charming young man.

Clemens has also made guest appearances as himself on the TV shows Hope and Faith, Spin City, Arli $$, and Saturday Night Live as well as in the movies Kingpin, and Anger Management.

During the 1940s Gelbart also wrote for Jack Paar and Bob Hope.

Aniston donated $ 500, 000 to Doctors Without Borders, Haitian health care provider Partners in Health and AmeriCares, and also participated in the megastar-studded Hope for Haiti Now telethon.

The term Cape of Good Hope is also used in three other ways:

Between 1900 and 1950, the historically important lands around the fort, including Mount Defiance, Mount Independence, and much of Mount Hope, were also acquired by the foundation.

At some point, he also had the Hope Diamond's bottom facet slightly recut to increase its brilliance.

The Hope Diamond also is resting on a new dark blue neck form, which the Harry Winston firm commissioned from display organization, Pac Team Group.

It also included " Prisoner of Hope ", which is not found on any other Jars album.

The next European to visit Namibia was also a Portuguese, Bartholomeu Dias, who stopped at what today is Walvis Bay and Lüderitz ( which he named Angra Pequena ) on his way to round the Cape of Good Hope.

Arkham House also published fiction by many of Lovecraft's contemporaries, including Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, and Derleth himself ; classic genre fiction by authors such as William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, and Sheridan Le Fanu ; and later writers in the Lovecraft school, such as Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley to whom Derleth gave their earliest publication in hardcover.

The Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University also takes the role of Rector.

In due course, she also meets his wife Carrie, an American coming from a rich background, and their children — Emily, her 17 year-old daughter by her first marriage ; Simon and Mark, two teenage boys ; and 8 year-old Hope, a girl.

Hope is also the hometown of the former Governor Mike Huckabee.

He also worked at a radio station in Hope, a job which he maintains led to his decision to become active in evangelical organizations and politics.

Hope is also known for growing watermelons and continues to produce records for the largest specimens in the world.

It is also one of only two parts of the Trans-Canada system in which the highway is officially designated as north-south, the other being Autoroute 85 / Route 185 from Autoroute 20 in Quebec to the New Brunswick border ( the Trans-Canada is otherwise designated as east-west from Nanaimo to St. John's, although there are significant north-south sections north of Hope BC, Sault Ste.

The Trekboers, as they were originally known, were mainly of Dutch origin and included Calvinists, such as Flemish and Frisian Calvinists, as well as French Huguenot and German and British protestants who first arrived in the Cape of Good Hope during the period of its administration ( 1652 – 1795 ) by the Dutch East India Company ( Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC ).

A key figure behind the census was Herbert Hope Risley, best known for the now discounted attribution of all differences in caste to varying proportions of seven racial types.

* 1488 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.

Twenty-eight years later, Bartolomeu Dias proved that Africa could be circumnavigated when he reached the southern tip of the continent, now known as the " Cape of Good Hope.

On April 22, 2007, the advisory body known as the International Theological Commission released a document, originally commissioned by Pope John Paul II, entitled " The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die without Being Baptized.

For the tenth anniversary of the bombing, the city held 24 days of activities, including a week-long series of events known as the National Week of Hope from April 17 to April 24, 2005.

* March 14 – John Herschel discovers the open cluster of stars now known as NGC 3603, observing from the Cape of Good Hope.

* February 3 – Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the tip of Africa, becoming the first known European to travel this far south and entering the Indian Ocean.

After falling under the ownership of the Hope family, and remaining in its possession for more than half a century, it came to be known officially as the " Hope Diamond ".

The names of all seven satellites of Saturn then known come from John Herschel ( son of William Herschel, discoverer of the planet Uranus, and two other Cronian moons, Mimas and Enceladus ) in his 1847 publication Results of Astronomical Observations made at the Cape of Good Hope, wherein he suggested the names of the Titans, sisters and brothers of Cronos ( Saturn, in Roman mythology ), be used.

There is also a route which runs between British Columbia and Alberta known as the Crowsnest Highway ( Highway 3 in both provinces ); while not officially part of the Trans-Canada Highway, it connects with the main branch of the highway in both Hope and Medicine Hat ( the western and eastern termini of the Crowsnest Highway, respectively ).

Chapel Hill, or at least the town center, indeed sits atop a hill which was originally occupied by a small Anglican " chapel of ease ", built in 1752, known as New Hope Chapel.

Johnson's story is the basis of the play and subsequent 1970 movie The Great White Hope, starring James Earl Jones as Johnson ( known as Jack Jefferson in the movie ), and Jane Alexander as his love interest.

Its egg, live or subfossilised, was known as early as 1420, when sailors to the Cape of Good Hope found eggs of the roc, according to a caption in the 1456 Fra Mauro map of the world, which says that the roc " carries away an elephant or any other great animal ".

The town of Bowling Green was earlier known as New Hope Village.

New Hope Tavern was built along the road prior to 1700, and the area around it became known as New Hope Village.

On October 8, 1835, the first church in Harrisonville was organized in the county two miles southwest of town known as Hopewell or New Hope Baptist.

The first organized church to be established in the territory that would become Carter County, for which there is record, was the United Baptist Church of Christ, also known as the New Hope Baptist Church.