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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Emerald
Britannica 11thEMERALD, a bright green variety of beryl, much valued as a gem-stone. The word comes indirectly from the Gr. afiapaySos (Arabic zumurrud) , but this seems to have been a name vaguely given to a number of stones having little in common except a green colour. Pl ...
Vol. 9, pp. 332-332
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Emden
Britannica 11th... til 1431. The town was held jointly by its captors till 1453, when Hamburg sold EMERALD— EMERSON its rights to Ulrich Cirksena, created count of East Friesland by the emperor Frederick III. in 1434- In 1544 the Reformation was introduced, and in the following ...
Vol. 9, pp. 331-332
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Venice
Britannica 11th... h. It contains 1300 great pearls, 400 garnets, 90 amethysts, 300 sapphires, 300 emeralds, 15 rubies, 75 balas rubies, 4 topazes, 2 cameos; the gems, except where they have been replaced, are cut en cabochon. The treasury of St Mark's contains a magnificent col ...
Vol. 27, pp. 995-1006
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