Word: diadem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...royal crown was fashioned by Paris Jeweler Arthus Bertrand, who topped it with a 138-carat C.A.E. diamond. The crown alone cost $2 million; Bokassa's scepter and Catherine's diadem upped the jewelry bill to $5 million...
...power, the Shah in 1967 finally decreed his coronation-after 26 years on the throne. Rather like Napoleon, he crowned himself with the 10,400-carat ruby and diamond royal crown. For Farah, the first Shahbanou (Imperial Consort) of Iran ever accorded the honor of being crowned, a special diadem was fashioned by Van Cleef & Arpels...
...because the nation's fate is securely in the hands of his heroes, the American people. "... These people can cope," he says unequivocally. Indeed, the fact that Americans have coped so well in what even Wallenberg admits are troubled times "may be the most valued jewel in the diadem of American success...
...time. Although the feet are missing from the statue of the youth (as is the right hand), the figure stands more than six feet, somewhat larger than lifesize. His wavy hair, held in place by a headband, still bears traces of its original red color. The girl wears a diadem of lotus blossoms and other flowers on her shoulder-length curls and a chain of tiny pomegranate-shaped beads around her neck. Despite some slight damage to the nose and a missing left hand-which, Mastrokostas believes, also held a flower-it is the most complete statue of its period...