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		<title>The Story of Hind Horn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, at the time of Robin Hood or maybe a few hundred years before that (but after King Arthur) there lived a princess who was unlucky enough to fall in love with a man who was not a price.  His name was Horn and he was a servant who lived and worked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemlore.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550609&amp;post=56&amp;subd=gemlore&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Phaeton (and where Amber comes from)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:50:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A retelling from Ovid&#8217;s Metamorphosis When Phaeton was growing up, his mother told him that his true father was Helios, who is the sun (as the sun-god, Helios is responsible for driving the great Chariot across the sky that daily brings the warm sun to us).  As Phaeton grew older he found he needed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemlore.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550609&amp;post=43&amp;subd=gemlore&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amberella: reluctant princess</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ There is an old Lithuanian story that tells us that amber comes from the sea as a gift from the lovely Amberella, held captive by the Prince of the Seas.  According to this story, Amberella grew up right on the shore of the Baltic Sea alone with her parents, who were fishermen.  She learned to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemlore.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550609&amp;post=44&amp;subd=gemlore&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amber: the natural time capsule</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Spider, Flye, and Ant, being tender dissipable substances falling into Amber, are therein buryed, finding therein both a Death, and Tombe, preserving them better from Corruption than a Royal Monument.&#8221; Francis Bacon  Along with pearl but unlike other precious gems, Amber is not a stone – it is actually fossilized tree sap from pre-historical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemlore.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550609&amp;post=42&amp;subd=gemlore&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proof for Life on Mars?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are we alone in the universe?It seems difficult to believe that the universe could be such a big place and yet we on earth are the only living beings in it.  Maybe we are, maybe we aren&#8217;t.  Scientists have long looked for signs of past or present life on our nearest neighbour, Mars, by looking for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemlore.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550609&amp;post=41&amp;subd=gemlore&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hematite: the stone of BLOOD</title>
		<link>http://gemlore.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/hematite-the-stone-of-blood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[hematite (or haematite) is easily identifiable as a heavy, cold and mirror-like grey/silver stone.  That is actually red.  We know that it&#8217;s red because it leaves red streaks and because when it is ground down it becomes a red powder, known as rouge (because it&#8217;s red, don&#8217;tcha know?) What you need to know about hematite:Hematite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemlore.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550609&amp;post=40&amp;subd=gemlore&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brisingamen (a story of Amber)</title>
		<link>http://gemlore.wordpress.com/2007/06/25/brisingamen-a-story-of-amber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  If a giant ash tree holds together 9 worlds that together make up the known universe, then in one of these worlds is a mountain where four dwarf brothers lived.  They called themselves the Brisings and they lived alone under the mountain where they'd eat, sleep and make beautiful things from gold and jewels.... <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemlore.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550609&amp;post=38&amp;subd=gemlore&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Stone of Heaven</title>
		<link>http://gemlore.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/blue-stone-of-heaven/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lapis Lazuli... "a gemstone straight out of fairy tales of the Arabian Nights: deepest blue with golden shining Pyrite inclusions which twinkle like little stars."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemlore.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550609&amp;post=30&amp;subd=gemlore&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A story of&#8230; Turquoise</title>
		<link>http://gemlore.wordpress.com/2006/10/19/a-story-of-turquoise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the beginning of time, before the laws of physics and biology were immutable and fixed, they say that the buffalo used to have horns of turquoise. The massive herds used to roam across the continent we call North America, their fabulous turquoise horns shining against the blue skies so that the people who lived [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemlore.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550609&amp;post=29&amp;subd=gemlore&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A story of&#8230; RUBY</title>
		<link>http://gemlore.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/a-story-of-ruby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heirloom (n): 1. A valued possession passed down in a family through succeeding generations. 2. An article of personal property included in an inherited estate. Many heirlooms, though precious to their families, have very little monetary worth. Sentimental value may be in a league of its own, but some heirlooms truly are physically priceless&#8230; The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gemlore.wordpress.com&amp;blog=550609&amp;post=26&amp;subd=gemlore&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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