The high quality emerald was found at a deposit in the Urals, Russia, on March 22, 2013. Unique emerald of 5000 carats found in the Urals

Unique emerald of 5000 carats found in the Urals

The high quality emerald was found at a deposit in the Urals, Russia, on March 22, 2013, according to RIA Novosti. The emerald has a dark green color, this semi-transparent gemstone weighs one kilo (2.2 pounds). “It is an extremely beautiful rock chip sample of emerald,” said Kaliningrad Amber Factory spokesperson Svetlana Kalinina. It is not the first large emerald extracted at the Urals deposit. The 3,187-carat Jubilee emerald was found there in 2012. Urals emeralds possess a perfect hue quality. Emerald – one of the most beautiful and amazing gems. Here are 10 interesting facts about the emeralds.
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Vogue Paris included her in the list of top 30 models of the 2000s. Maryna Linchuk top model of the 2000s

Maryna Linchuk top model of the 2000s

Born on 4 September 1987, in Minsk, Maryna Lіnchuk is a beautiful Belarusian top model. According to Marina, she never wanted to be a model. As a child, like all children, she wanted to be a doctor or a lawyer. Linchuk began her career in Minsk, and later moved to Moscow. There she began working in a modeling agency IQ Models. Her favorite cities are Tokyo, New York and Moscow. Lіnchuk speaks Russian, Japanese and English. Besides, she is a vegetarian. Her favorite sports – surfing, snowboarding, boxing, yoga. Also, Her friends are super models Natasha Poly, Sasha Pivovarova, Vlada Roslyakova, and Olga Scherrer. Noteworthy, Vogue Paris included her in the list of top 30 models of the 2000s.
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“I’m a normal teenage girl and I’m proud to say that I’m confident in myself”. Mila Mortice Romanian-American Beauty

Mila Mortice Romanian-American Beauty
She looks like a brunette barbie doll, or a character from The Twilight Saga. Mila Mortice, a naturally beautiful person, and her beauty is not due to Photo shop. According to Mila, she doesn’t have plastic surgeries, or tons of make-up on her face. Besides, she doesn’t wear weird doll-clothes, like infamous “Barbies” – 28-year-old Valeria Lukyanova, Anastasia Shpagina, or Kotakoti, and Dakota. Mila doesn’t want to be like any of these girls. And she honestly believes that “There are a million things far more important than appearance. There are features that really make someone worth knowing. Looking for a certain way will never make you happy. Happiness comes from accepting yourself“. Mila is a 16-year-old teenager (born November 8, 1996), striving for knowledge, and she knows several languages – Romanian, English, Latin, Spanish, and even Russian a little, and she is still studying Japanese. Her interests are photography, art and fashion. She admires European culture and architecture. The girl left Romania for the USA at the age of 5, she is currently living in Seattle.
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Asya & Stephen Webster jewelry art

Asya & Stephen Webster jewelry art
Stephen Webster began his career as a jeweler in 1982, worked in Canada and California. In 1988 he returned to London, where he founded his own company Stephen Webster ltd. Stephen is married to a Russian beauty Asya, who is engaged in public relations and promotion of the brand. Stephen and Asya’s children speak Russian and English. Stephen consistently comes to Russia, at least twice a year. Asya Webster moved to London from aristocratic St. Petersburg 18 years ago, owning English as a native language, she represents a new generation of successful women for whom career and life are inseparable. For more than 30 years of his artistic career, having received countless jewellery awards, Stephen Webster gained popularity among many celebrities such as Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Kate Moss, Pink, Naomi Campbell, the couple Beckham, Nicholas Cage, Elton John, Mickey Rourke, Kate Beckinsale to name but a few.
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German photographer Hans Silvester. Lost Omo tribe in Ethiopia

Lost Omo tribe in Ethiopia by photographer Hans Silvester
The photographs of colorfully painted faces, scarred bodies, extravagant headdresses of the Omo indigenous people were taken by photographer Hans Silvester and published in new book ‘Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa’. These children are proud to be the members of east Africa’s most fascinating tribal group. Their faces decorated with colored clay and a floral headdress is a kind of natural camouflage of people who live peacefully and close to nature in the beautiful part of the world. The tribes people’s way of life is largely untouched by modernity, although the extent to which some of the bleaker elements of civilization are creeping into their world is apparent in another photograph in which a young boy, whose body and face are decorated with clay paint poses proudly with a toy gun made of wood.
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Colorful art installation made it from daily-life objects. Work by 48 year-old Chinese artist Hong Hao

Things art mosaic by Chinese artist Hong Hao
The author of this art installation, that looks like mosaics, is a talented 48 year-old artist Hong Hao. Chinese artist has made it from daily-life objects, which he has collected for twenty years. According to Hong Hao, he collected various things thrown away by people. As a result, the viewers can enjoy amazing works of art – waste mosaic of large scale. Noteworthy, the artist tries to draw the world’s attention to the problem of littering, turning waste into art.
By the way, creative artist Hao began collecting trash items from the streets of his native city back in the early 1990s. According to Hao, he felt like a researcher who studies humanity through its waste. Indeed, garbage is one of the secret aspects of human culture, its downside. Rubbish and disorder in some cases can say a lot about what happens to humanity. However, culture stubbornly seeks to create something from debris. Then, followed his first mosaic collection, but it was not so long ago. In fact, the mosaic created by Hong Hao – a visual museum dedicated to the life of human society for the last decades.
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Unusual Art installation of yellow helmets. Yellow protest in Milan

Art installation of Yellow protest in Milan
The construction industry for the last few years is in decline around the world, including Italy. Italian workers from time to time hold demonstrations, one of them was recently in Milan. It was one of the most unusual in the world of rallies, because it involved not the builders, but their yellow helmets. Great number of them, ten thousand, were put on the area around the sculpture LOVE by artist Maurizio Cattelan.
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Sunny art by Hallah and Heba Fattah, Moscow based artist. Paintings inspired by ancient Egyptian culture

Sunny art by Hallah and Heba Fattah

These colorful exotic paintings as if lit from within, radiate light all around. Soaked in hot golden sun, they tell stories about cats, graceful and beautiful women with a profile of Queen Nefertiti – flexible, plastic dancers of love. In each painting is lust and passion for the ancient culture of the Egyptian people. And behind all of this – a Russian artist with oriental name Fattah Hallah Abdel. Egyptian in origin, Hallah Abdel Fattah was born and raised in Russia. Her parents – dancer and filmmaker, saw their future here, in the great and strong (then) Soviet Union, and therefore decided to settle in Moscow. Their two daughters, Hallah and Heba were born in Moscow, and they followed the footsteps of their parents, devoting their life to art. Today, Heba Fattah – dancer at the Bolshoi Theater, and Hallah draws amazing pictures, which are a mixture of Russian and Egyptian cultures, their temperaments and characters.
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What a weird world. 8-year-old boy married 61-year-old woman

8-year-old boy married 61-year-old woman
This photograph depicts a 8-year-old schoolboy, who married a 61-year-old woman, obeying the order of a long-dead ancestor’s spirit. Sanel Masilela tied the knot with Helen Shabangu, who is married and is the mother of five children. This so unusual alliance was promoted by the spirit of the deceased ancestor whose fate was supposedly passed to the boy. Fearing the wrath of the dead, the family of 8-year-old Sanel arranged the wedding for only two months.
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