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The new belt lies at the far reaches of the Saturnian system, with an orbit tilted 27 degrees from the main tiffany jewellery plane. The bulk of its material starts about six million kilometers (3.7 million miles) away from the planet and extends outward roughly another 12 million kilometers (7.4 million miles). One of Saturn’s [...]
Almost 400 years after Galileo spied Saturn’s iconic Tiffany and co ring system, a University of Maryland astronomer has discovered another gigantic but invisible ring around the planet. More than 14 million miles in diameter, it is by far the largest in the solar system. Maryland’s Douglas P. Hamilton and two University of Virginia astronomers [...]
Individuals who want to be part of the history of the soon-to-be commissioned USS NEW YORK can have their name, or the name of someone they wish to honor, engraved on silver items that will become part of the ship’s silver service. USS NEW YORK, which will be commissioned in November 2009, was constructed in [...]
46-3052 NK7309 MARC Markowitz, Yvonne J. Imperishable beauty: art nouveau tiffany jewelry, by Yvonne J. Markowitz and Elyse Zorn Karlin with Susan Ward. MFA Publications (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), 2008. 167p bibl Index ISBN 9780878467341, $45.00 German Jungenstil and Austrian Vienna Succession artists, along with their French counterparts such as Lalique, Vever, and Fouquet, [...]
Teri Davis sipped red wine from a glass painted with colorful palm trees, chatted with friends and snacked from platters of food on a nearby counter. But her attention kept turning to the kitchen table, to a group of partygoers Tiffany and co waiting their turns to pull out bags, boxes or Ziploc baggies of [...]