In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood,…

- Victoria Finlay

Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female compla…

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Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold, silver, …

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In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But …

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Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, …

- Victoria Finlay

Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, …

- Victoria Finlay

Communists liked history very much. It just had to be the right history. They liked to remember it selectively.

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Patterns drawn in ultraviolet might make those ordinary little petals into the exotic peacocks of the botanical world, and yet we cannot appreciate t…

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I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each oth…

- Victoria Finlay