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To: Rambi who wrote (17096)	1/26/1999 7:18:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

Well, let's see. I got everything except Marilyn Horne. Hope you will explain that one. Alexandrites are named after the young Alexander, son of Nicholas and Alexander, the last czar and czarina of Russia. They were discovered in Russia, and they are either red or green, which was the royal colors. I want to say Hapsburg, but that's not it. Green in sunlight, red in candlelight, and artificial light. They named it after young Alexander as a sort of butt-kissy thing, on his birthday. Or maybe it was the Alexander who became the last czar. Anyway, I was just looking it up on the net, and so that kinda stuck a little. Edit: Romanoff. A real one is worth $10,000 a carat, and mine are about 5 carats each, but they are not even synthetic. Imitation. Corundum. But pretty. They are really dichroic. I have the one set in gold out of the box, it is actually amethyst purple in artificial light. In daylight, it is greenish-grayish-blue.