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Window Cleaner Discovers £200m Shakespeare portrait
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The price is a best-guess as it hasn't gone up for sale, but the discovery of the most youthful portrait of the Bard yet on record is pretty sure to set some new auction records.
The Second Largest Diamond Ever Found...
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Vancouver based Lucara again, from their Botswana holding, the second largest diamond ever found, weighing in at a whopping 2, 492 Carats, or roughly a pound.
You Can Call Me Bill
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- Category: Film
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A documentary on William Shatner, cultural Icon. When I was a child I too wanted to "go Boldly where no man has gone before", discover new worlds, so - realizing as I got older his failings - first as an actor, and - really, what does it matter the rest?
It was time to put childish things behind me and while I respected his "accomplishments" - never so much the quality of his work but the breadth of his career, and how much his roles influenced the cultural landscape, I was never really a "trekkie" or a fan of his acting style.
But this documentary, kind, warm, revealing, it was good, and a fair send off to one who is still able to realize that he is soon to set off on journey where every man has gone before and none have returned. And his thoughts upon the planet, mortality, and what is truly important.
Proof that one can become more than the sum of ones parts. Very worthwhile.
Rocks, Identified
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Finally, to the experts with this seasons share of hopeful rocks.
1 - the lamproite/diamond - Geologist #1 a bit stumped, #2, the old timer, declares it to be slow-cooled basalt (possibly still lamproite) and what I took to be a diamond is in fact a ruby. This I would not have guessed, the crystal is dark against a dark background, but he seems certain, has several just like it, a jar full. Doing some research later at home later I find that the Montana Sapphires were hosted in lamproites, so it's not an impossibility. Definitely worth returning and breaking some more rocks. And there are enough lamproites around the Kootenays that I should at some point find a sapphire/ruby deposit...
2 - the blue kyanite (I thought). Pale blue, bladed texture, in pegmatic granite, some thin sections resembling aquamarine. I could get no consensus - Geo #1 thought it was beryl, #2 Slick & Slide (not).
3 - Serpentine - an attractive dark water worn rock picked up on Balfour beach. Dark green with black spots. Confirmed as serpentine.
4 - red/pink tourmaline crystals in host feldspar, again picked up on beach, lake tumbled. Identified as red/pink tourmaline crystals in host feldspar. Now, the hard part, figuring out where it came from, surely closer that Mt. Begby...
5 - dark black crystal, rusty setting, from pegmatite in Revelstoke. Remains unidentified.
6 - black slag looking piece, with vesicles and small crystals. Google lens identifies it as meteorite, but it's not (meteorites don't have vesicles), geologists agreed it wasn't slag...
And so here I am at the point where I have to figure things out for myself, because bloody hell I'm not getting a whole lot of help. That said, these old timers, if they're the competition it explains a lot...
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