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Great Britain's Crown Jewels ... Crowns There are a number of crowns included in the British Crown Jewels. St...

British Crown Jewels Represent One Of The Largest Jewelry Collections In Existence ... By British Law, the originals of the crown jewels and implements of the State cannot leave England and are displayed in the Tower of London...

St Bridget And The Jewels In Her Crown ... Quartz crystals have a peizo - electric quality. This means that when they come in contact with another "electrical" component, (like a radio wave in a crystal radio) it creates a spark of electricity...

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

God has given such brave soldiers to this crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species, might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch’s brow.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)