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Sapphire is one of the two gem-varieties of corundum, the other being ruby (defined as corundum in a shade of red). Although blue is the best-known sapphire color, they occur in other colors, including gray and black, and also can be colorless. A pinkish orange variety of sapphire is called padparadscha .
Login. Fesseha Atlaw is an Ethiopian born American Engineer who pioneered digital Ethiopic/Ge'ez in the 80's. He is known worldwide for inventing the first usable Amharic word processor. Fesseha Atlaw was born in Addis Ababa in 1963. His father was Atlaw Woldeyohannes and his mother was Hamere Gebretsadiq.
Kappa Kappa Gamma (ΚΚΓ), also known simply as Kappa or KKG, is a collegiate sorority founded at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois, United States.. It has a membership of more than 260,000 women, with 140 collegiate chapters in the United States and Canada and 307 alumni associations worldwide.
Thomas Baer (born Baraboo, Wisconsin) is the executive director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center, a consulting professor in the applied physics department and an associate member of the Stem Cell Institute at Stanford University.
Starshine 3 (also called SO-43 and OSCAR 43) is one of five satellites in the Starshine project (Student Tracked Atmospheric Research Satellite for Heuristic International Equipment). Starshine 3's main task was to study the density of the Earth's upper atmosphere .
Estimated value. Est. US$100 million. Serendipity Sapphire is the world's largest star sapphire cluster. It weighs 510 kilograms (2,600,000 carats). [1] It was found in Kahawatte in the Ratnapura District, Sri Lanka, in July 2021. Its worth is estimated to be up to US$100 million. [1]
Sapphire (color) The 423-carat (85 g) blue Logan Sapphire. Sapphire is a saturated shade of blue, referring to the gemstone of the same name. Sapphire gems most commonly occur in a range of blue shades, although they can come in many different colors. Other names for variations of the color sapphire are blue sapphire or sapphire blue, shown below.