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Star of India. The Star of India is a 563.35- carat (112.67 g) star sapphire, one of the largest such gems in the world. [1][a] It is almost flawless and is unusual in that it has stars on both sides of the stone. The greyish-blue gem was mined in Sri Lanka [3] and is housed in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
The American Sapphire Company, which used local gemcutters from Great Falls, went bankrupt in 1909; a new firm, the Yogo American Sapphire Company, bought the American Mine, but was bankrupt by 1913. Gadsden and his wife had convinced the New Mine Sapphire Syndicate to buy out the Yogo American Sapphire Company in 1914, and in doing so, the ...
270 Park Avenue, also known as the JPMorgan Chase Building, is a supertall skyscraper under construction on the East Side of the Midtown neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Designed by the firm of Foster + Partners, the skyscraper is expected to rise 1,388 feet (423 m) when completed in 2025. Photograph of immediate past building.
Synthetic sapphire—also referred to as sapphire glass—is commonly used for small windows, because it is both highly transparent to wavelengths of light between 150 nm and 5500 nm (the visible spectrum extends about 380 nm to 750 nm [57]), and extraordinarily scratch-resistant. [58] [59] The key benefits of sapphire windows are:
Website. www.bombaysapphire.com. Bombay Sapphire is a brand of gin that is distilled by the Bombay Spirits Company, a subsidiary company of Bacardi, at Laverstoke Mill in the village of Laverstoke in the English county of Hampshire. The brand was first launched in 1986 by English wine-merchant International Distillers & Vintners.
Coordinates: 40.781°N 73.974°W. The Allison and Roberto Mignone Halls of Gems and Minerals are a series of exhibition halls at the American Museum of Natural History on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. The halls opened on June 12, 2021, as a complete redesign of their predecessors, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Hall of Gems and ...
In 2003, Sapphire made an equity investment of Rs300 million in the unlisted associated company, Sapphire Finishing Mills Limited. [5] In 2009, Sapphire invested 980,000 Danish krone in Beirholms Sapphire A/S, a company registered in Denmark. [6] In 2014, the retail division of the company, Sapphire Retail, was founded by Nabeel Abdullah. [7]
The firm was founded in 1996 as the venture capital arm of multinational software conglomerate SAP [26] and spun out as an independent company in 2011, rebranding to Sapphire Ventures in 2014. [27] At the time, Sapphire Ventures managed $1.4 billion and had invested in more than 125 companies, with 10 companies going public and 17 getting acquired.