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Peridot jewelry dates back as far as the second millennium BC. These ancient Egyptian gems came from deposits on a small volcanic island in the Red Sea called Topazios, now known as St. John’s Island or Zabargad. Ancient Egyptians called peridot the “gem of the sun,” believing it protected its wearer from terrors of the night. Egyptian priests believed that it harnessed the power of nature, and used goblets encrusted with it to commune with their nature gods. Some historians believe that Cleopatra’s famed emerald collection may have actually been peridot. Through medieval times, people continued to confuse these two...

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Bastille Day celebrations connect French and American heritages.   New Rochelle was founded by French Huguenots 329 years ago, and its sister city is La Rochelle, France. On Friday, a French flag was raised outside City Hall to observe Bastille Day. from USA Today.

Officers of the Georgia branch of the Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia at its July 6 meeting presented a book to the Georgia Room of the Charles D. Switzer Public Library in Marietta in honor of outgoing President Susan Shaylor, of Marietta. Many of the society’s members live in Brookhaven, Buckhead, Sandy Springs and Vinings. “Turff and Twigg, Volume One, The French Lands” by Priscilla H. Cabell records the French refugees who settled in the burned-out Manahoac Indian village in the early 1700s. London was overflowing with French Protestants fleeing from France because...

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