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POPS£6,500 a fling for philandering fat cat The secret of a long marriage was simple for Robert and Elizabeth Charlton. Every time he cheated on his wife he would make it up by buying her a gift. Instead, she acquired diamond jewellery whenever her wealthy husband strayed - and it seems they both notched up quite a collection in their 26 years together.
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POPSHoney, I cheated, and blah blah blah... "The riviere was once bought in the 1900s for around 400 pounds, the auction house said, a sum that would have made it extremely expensive when Charlton bought it in the 1960s. "The big diamonds were Edwardian and Victorian so they were antique pieces when he bought them for her in the 60s and 70s," said Durham. Charlton's daughter chose to auction a total of 43 pieces from the guilt-ridden collection after other family members declined to accept them. The family kept other pieces. "He didn't just buy her jewelry when he played away. He did buy her gifts for birthdays and Christmas and things like that. I don't think he was that bad," said Durham." (Editing by Paul Casciato)
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POPSThe Leakey Collection-green LA girl Want to design your own eco-jewelry — without doing the actual work of making the jewelry? Browse The Leakey Collection to find pretty jewelry strands that you can twist and combine to make a choker, long necklace, bracelet, or whatever else your imagination can conjure up and create.
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POPSSecret to Abalone Shell Strength Revealed
"To peer more deeply into mother-of-pearl's inner architecture, Gilbert and colleagues used a light source called synchrotron radiation. The polarized light showed that the nacre was not constructed as uniformly as previously thought. One previous study had hinted at this conclusion, finding chunks of material mixed into the otherwise layered construction. Close up, the shell resembles a brick wall, with a twist. Organic mortar lies between clumps of mineral-crystal bricks aligned in irregular columns. The columns of crystals interlock like zippers, but each column faces a different direction than its neighbor. Gilbert and her team predict that this irregular, interlocking design stands behind nacre's brute force. "It's strength is very likely due to structure," Gilbert told LiveScience. With further research, Gilbert says scientists could someday reproduce this natural structural design to create, for example, cars that absorb all of the energy at a point of impact but
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