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Have diamonds always been considered precious?

As far as can be judged from the sources, the first people engaged in the search for diamonds appeared in India. Diamond mining started there over 2500 years ago!

Diamonds have been highly valued from the very beginning. Until the fifteenth century, they were still so rare that only kings and queens could own them. And only in 1430 did the custom appear to wear diamonds as jewelry. Agnes Sorel, a court lady from France, was the first to do this, and from here the fashion spread throughout Europe.

The result was a frenetic diamond mining in India that lasted over 300 years. In the end, this source dried up, but, fortunately, diamonds were found in another part of the world - in Brazil, in 1725. The jungle and tropical climate made it very difficult to work, but nevertheless, for over 160 years, Brazil was the main source of diamonds in the world.

Currently, the center of diamond mining is South Africa, where large deposits of diamonds were found by accident in 1867. A boy from a poor farming family found a beautiful pebble, which was bought by a cunning neighbor who immediately recognized the precious diamond. When he sold it in turn, prospectors of all ages and nationalities came to the site. Within a year, three large diamond deposits were discovered here, and the city of Kimberley, the center of a huge diamond empire, appeared.

Author: Likum A.

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Are there identical fingerprints?

In movies, on TV, in books, there are often situations when a person leaves his fingerprints on something. Then they are discovered, and this proves that it was he who was in that place. There can be no mistake. And why, we will now explain to you.

If you look at the pads of your fingers, you will see a network of small grooves. They contain our skin's touch receptors. Each person has his own pattern of these lines (imprint), which cannot be changed. If you burn the skin of the fingertips several times, then the same print will still appear during healing!

Fingerprints have several characteristics. But there are no people for whom they would completely coincide.

An expert can easily identify one hundred different characteristics of a print. This means that it has a hundred distinct groove patterns. Take, for example, the index finger. In order to find two people whose index finger prints matched at least only two of these characteristics, we need to examine 16 people, for three - already 64.

Continuing this procedure, we finally want to know how many people it takes to find two prints that match in all one hundred characteristics. In this case, we must examine all the people in the world who have only lived during 4 billion years! But this is only for one fingerprint! But we have 10 of them.

It is truly a miracle of nature that each of us has our own unique fingerprint that does not change throughout our lives.

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