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Logan Sapphire – Smithsonian Museum of Natural History – 2012-05-17


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The Logan Sapphire, a sapphire cabochon, on display in the lobby of gems and minerals at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington are DCSaphirs gems of the mineral corundum (aluminum oxide crystal) are made. Pure corundum is colorless, but when the trace elements such as chromium, vanadium, iron, nickel, or mix it into curves. The red variety is known as Ruby, all other varieties are known as sapphires. The violet-blue color is caused by the presence of titanium, iron and vanadium.Le Logan Sapphire was mined in Sri Lanka, probably in the 19th Century. It was also undoutedly cut. There is a sapphire size table. This means that it has been cut, such as a four-sided diamond optics. Somewhat less than half of the peak was cut to allow a better visualization of the interior. It is not clear whether the sapphire breakpoint was in Sri Lanka and cut in Europe, or if it is carved table in Sri Lanka. At that time, most sapphires have exported to Paris and London and sold there. This is probably where he was vendu.La from the gemstone is not clear. Eventually, it was purchased by the Guggenheim family. Meyer Guggenheim was a Swiss Jew who emigrated to the United States in 1847. He became one of the richest men of the 19th Century engaged in mining and smelting. In 1901 he bought the American Melting and Refining Company (ASARCO) William Rockefeller. His second oldest son, Daniel helped ASARCO term. His fourth son, Solomon Guggenheim, helped trigger gold rush in Alaska in the 1900s – and even made more riche.Rebecca family “Polly” Pollard was a divorce that Robert Meyer Guggenheim (married son Daniel) in 1938. Guggenheim was a colonel in the U.S. Army, and the Ambassador of Portugal from 1953 to 1954. During their marriage, the Guggenheim was one of the most important families in DC. In 1958, the Guggenheim helped found Frank Guggenheim Hall of Gems and Minerals at the Smithsonian Institution. Robert Guggenheim died in 1959. “Polly” Guggenheim then married John A. Logan, a management consultant in 1962. He died in 1982 and she died in 1994.Robert Guggenheim gave his wife the Sapphire 1952. He had his attitude undoutedly here là.L year after the death of Robert Guggenheim purchased, Polly Logan Sapphire donated at the Smithsonian. However, sapphire has in his possession remains until 1971. Until then she was Mrs. John A. Logan and Logan Sapphire Sapphire said. He has in June 1971.La Logan Sapphire is issued in a spindle frame is in gold and silver. Twenty round brilliant cut diamonds weighing approximately 16 carats are set on the edge of the pin. The Logan Sapphire is unusually clear blue and very unusual for a stone of this size. There was some concern that the sapphire with heat or radiation was to bring a certain time, the color treated. But it was investigated by the Gemological Institute of America in 1997 and proved to be quite natural.

grave of Major General Philip Kearny – Arlington National Cemetery – 2012-05-19


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Statue and grave stone on the grave of General Philip Kearny, Jr. at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginie.Kearny a U.S. Army officer who served in the Mexican-American War. He was considered the leader of the most courageous and aggressive in the army at the time. He was shot in the left arm, and he had to be amputé.Après the war, he met a woman – but his wife would not grant him a divorce. He left his wife and moved to France with his mistress. After his first wife divorced, he married his second femme.Il at the beginning of the Civil War was reactivated. He was very aggressive and often led his troops into battle from the start. His men adored him. He developed the first unit insignia, adopted later entier.Il army died during the Battle of Chantilly 1862. In a violent thunderstorm rolled Kearny before the examination a gap in the Union line. When his men asked him to stay, he replied: “The rebel bullet can kill me is not yet cast” He ran straight into a Confederate squadron Kearny refused to surrender and tried .. He .. Escape was shot in the back and killed instantly Confederate Maj. Gen. AP Hill, commander of the troops came to the body and said, “You’ve Phil Kearny He deserved better fate than to die in the mud.” General Robert E. Lee Kearny be respected when he sent the body to the line of the Union with a score of condoléances.Kearny was buried in Trinity Cemetery in New York. In 1912 his remains were exhumed and buried at Arlington National Cemetery. His statue is one of only two equestrian statues in Arlington. The other is Sir John Dill, the British officer who coordinates the U.S.-British military relations during the Second World War.