sardonyx

187 Sardonyx Street in Tondo was gunned down at the corner of Osmena and Pacheco Streets at 10:30 p.m.

6) Sardonyx guitar used by John on the album 'Double Fantasy' 7) Hair Peace / Bed Peace signs from 1969 Bed-Ins in Amsterdam and Montreal 8) The mirror John gave Yoko before they got back together after their separation 9) John's hard-won Green Card After a long struggle with the authorities, John Lennon was finally issued with a Green Card by the US Immigration Office in 1976.

It's a large Byzantine sardonyx bowl, which Hamilton bought when he was British ambassador to Russia in 1807.

The speaker tells the reader, "Your gemstone is sardonyx," and "Jupiter rules your knees and bones / You'll drain your own blood to purge yourself of memory and desire." She embraces superstition, and uses its glittery allure to create a new vessel for the old story of a love found and lost: "And so / And so listen when I say / It will then be October / And you'll never want to travel there again."

The semi precious stones are garnet, amethyst, aquamarine, emerald, pearl, moonstone, alexandrite, sardonyx, peridot, opal, tourmaline, topaz, citrine, turquoise, lapis lazuli, zircon etc.

No specific names of Italian or French lapidaries working in the imperial courts of Jahangir and Shahjahan have ever been found, yet the quality of this cameo, executed in sardonyx with a white ground, illustrates Western influence and the role hard-stonecarving played in the Mughal period, most especially under the patronage of Shahjahan.

These gems included agate, sardonyx, chalcedony and other semi-transparent stones, regarded by today's jewellers as gemstones as distinguished from precious stones, a term used only for diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds.

Gemstones like agate onyx, or sardonyx were the materials of choice for early cameos, while in the 19th century, carvers used such materials such as stone, shell, lava and coral.

The diction reshuffles Herod's speech to Salome of the inexhaustible catalogue of enticing "chrysolites and beryls, and chrysophrases and rubies," "sardonyx and hyacinth stones, and stones of chalcedony" (Wilde, Plays 95).