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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Cullinan diamond
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The world's largest diamond, weighing 3106 carats when found in 1905 in South Africa in a mine started three years previously by Thomas Cullinan. The Transvaal government presented it to Edward VII. It was cut into nine large stones and about 100 smaller ones, all now in the *crown jewels. The largest of them is in the sceptre – the pear-shaped Star of Africa (at 530 carats the world's largest cut diamond).
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