";s:4:"text";s:3085:" It is widely reported that the diamond was mounted on the idol of the presiding deity of the Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple at Srirangam, in southern India. Your goal in this puzzle is to arrange all the rings in the box into the correct spots. Have you ever thought these precious pieces of carbon can be cursed and ruin people’s lives?Once having pilfered the stone around 1750 the deserter fled to Chennai where he would find protection with the British Army, as well as a buyer. Later her son was killed in a car accident, daughter died of an overdose, and her husband left her for another woman and she died in a sanitarium.A diamond dealer J.W. Early Romans wore diamonds into battle because they were believed to bring great strength. A diamond is no different, being the toughest stone known to mankind, it has a very long life, and through its life it interacts with countless people, situations and environs and carries with it their impressions. Another is the most valuable stone in the imperial state crown, the 317-carat Cullinan II, sometimes called the Second Star of Africa.…
After his death, his daughter waited less than 12 months before donating it to the museum, and the institution has so far resisted the letter’s recommendation to “cast it into the sea.” The gem is now on display at the museum’s Vault Collections, where it doesn’t seem to cause any particular harm to visitors.As you have already noticed most of the mentioned diamonds were mined from Kollur Mine, Andhra Pradesh. The Regent Diamond was originally 410 carats when it was mined in India back in the year 1701. Shaffrass, an Iranian millionaire who then owned the diamond found an eager buyer in Count Grigory Grigorievich Orlov. He had the diamond cut down to 140.64 carats and sold it to Regent Philippe II of Orleans in 1717. The French royal family named it after Regent. The diamond was purchased by diamond dealer Dennis Petimezas in 2004. One example was in 1604 when James I of England bought the diamond and wore it for good luck, but according to one legend, when the stone was being transported to him, the courier was robbed and then murdered. After it was donated to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, thieves entered the museum and stole several gems, including the Star of India. Later owners included two Russian princesses called Leonila Galitsine-Bariatinsky and Nadia Vygin-Orlov (after whom the diamond is named). Heron-Allen’s daughter donated the gem, mounted in a ring in the form of a snake, to the museum in January 1944. Reposing in the same gallery of the Louvre as the Regent Diamond, the Hortensia diamond is a wonderful stone which goes to show that even a flawed diamond can be breathtakingly beautiful.