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While fake baubles have now become highly fashionable, they have been around for centuries. The first false diamonds, sculpted from crystal, appeared in the 1600s in France. In Britain, Prince Albert's death in 1861 prompted a grieving Queen Victoria to proclaim that only black jewelry would be considered proper, making black glass jewels temporarily popular among aristocrats. French Designer Coco Chanel made a splash by wearing rhinestones and faux pearls during the Roaring Twenties...
...MOST boring period in all of history: the Victorian Era. A time of chastity, of temperence, and of virtue. Of staid manners and reverence for the Queen. Nothing if not dull...
Dawson, who died in 1945, wrote that he acted on the wishes of the King's wife Queen Mary and his son the future Edward VIII, who abdicated eleven months later. Nonetheless, the story caused an uproar in Britain, where euthanasia is illegal. Kenneth Rose, George V's official biographer, accused Dawson of "murdering" the King, who was the grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II. A spokesman for Buckingham Palace, which learned of the mercy killing from Watson on the eve of the publication of the notes, said only, "The events happened a long time ago, and all the main participants...
...outlying -- very outlying -- city of Darwin and town of Alice Springs. Despite the hectic pace, his Holiness was never too busy to shake an outstretched hand or, in the case of a sedentary koala named Simon, a diffidently proffered claw. The Pope-koala encounter came at Brisbane's Queen Elizabeth II stadium, where the Pontiff obligingly held the animal in his arms before delivering an address to the assembled press on the dignity of their craft...
...clearly noted 2,058 miles away in Ceylon -- that the Spanish Steps, Rome's great gathering place for tourists, are actually owned by France and leased to Italy for an annual fee of one lira (about .07 cent)? Where else can it be learned that Henry VII's Queen Elizabeth was the original model for the four queens in a deck of playing cards, that Venus is the only planet with a rotation from east to west or that Cyrus the Great could address every soldier in his army by name...