The “Hope Diamond” of Marquette Michigan, the Landmark Inn is situated on Front Street that serves as the aorta to the heart of Marquette Michigan’s Historic Downtown area. The Landmark Inn stands tall and proud, as if a watchman over Marquette Michigan’s beautiful Lower Harbor and the Lake Superior Shoreline. The Landmark Inn offers 62 ...
In 2005, a research team led by Smithsonian Institute gem curator Jeffrey Post determined in a year-long study that the world famous Hope Diamond was once a famous diamond called “The French Blue”, part of King Louis XIV’s long lost crown jewels stolen during the French Revolution. The French Blue had originated as a 115-carat ...
The most difficult item to see at Washington’s Smithsonian’s Museum of National History is the Hope Diamond. It’s not that it is physically guarded, although a multitude of high tech security protects the world’s largest diamond in a glass case. It’s difficult to see the Hope Diamond because it is always surrounded by throngs of ...
Did you know that jewelry is a part of the fashion industry? If you did know that little tidbit of information then, you might be interesting knowing that there are many kinds of gemstone jewelry pieces that people buy or have created so that they can accessorize their clothing. It is important to realize that ...
Imagine the thrill. If you had been here in 1859, you wouldn’t have to imagine anything. Because it really happened. It happened at the Willard Mining Claim, a hydraulic gold mining operation at Whiskey Flat in the Feather River Canyon northeast of the town of Magalia, CA. The date was April 12, 1859. Even the ...