TIARA ALERT: Queen Mary of Denmark wore Queen Caroline Amalie’s Emerald Parure Tiara for a new official portrait at Christiansborg Palace on 25 April 2024.
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this is a spinning-circles-in-the-office-chair thought but how did salem find out how the relics work. she knows the lamp has a “password” and a limited number of questions, and that using the staff to create something will destroy its previous creation.
we know she’s never used the lamp before, otherwise she’d have known jinn’s name. it’s possible she had the staff at one point and lost it, although i’m skeptical of ozma’s ability to get it back from her if she did—man is a dreadful strategist. she doesn’t seem to know what the relic of choice is: the lamp, the staff, the sword, and “the beacon relic.”
spins chair.
the way her expression changes when ruby says “we’ve seen what you’re capable of. the lamp showed us.” salem doesn’t react to the interruption in any way until she hears the lamp showed us.
from ironwood, we know that ozpin told the inner circle that the lamp can answer three questions per century and that the questions were all used up before ozpin sealed the lamp in the vault. we also know that ozpin used the staff to raise atlas at a point when ironwood was already part of the inner circle, meaning within the last couple decades, which necessitated giving a similar explanation of what the staff can do and its limitations to the whole inner circle; in v7 ironwood knows the staff can only make one thing at a time.
salem is startled, and then coldly irritated, when she hears ruby say the lamp showed us.
she’s not upset because the girls learned the truth; she’s upset because all the information salem has about the relics came to her via member(s) of ozpin’s inner circle, and ruby just revealed that at least one thing ozpin told his acolytes was a lie. as far as salem knew before that moment, the lamp was dormant. useless to her. when ruby says “the lamp showed us,” both the assertion that the lamp is out of questions and that the lamp only has a finite number of questions it can answer are thrown into question.
given what salem does immediately after getting her hands on the lamp a few hours later…
“the lamp showed us” switches salem’s train of thought to “the lamp is still usable?” and then to “if that’s so, i could ask it questions myself” and then to “we still haven’t uncovered the location of the beacon relic” and she’s only half-listening to what ruby says to her while she turns this over in her mind and what comes out of her mouth is “your mother said those words to me,” because summer rose is the one who told her, per ozpin, that the lamp was all out of questions. “she was wrong, too.”
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Specter of Empress Charlotte Of Mexico (1840-1927)
Openwork in gold filigree and friezes of flowers and foliage. It is placed on a ball between windings, and topped with an openwork imperial crown of gold threads, pearls and eagles with outstretched wings.
The crown, placed on an openwork cushion in gold trimmings, is embellished with rubies, emeralds, and bezel set diamonds.
The scepter is decorated at the ends with leaves and finely chiselled acorns in relief. It is applied with a crowned cipher surmounting the inscription “San Juan del Rio 1864”.
At the base a small plate bearing the signature of the goldsmith Jose Maria Larralde. It contains a document signed by Mr. Angel M.Dominguez relating the various honorary marks that the Municipal Council of San Juan del Rio wishes to establish following the accession to power of Maximilien and Charlotte. Preserved in its shaped case.
Height: 34 cm, Gross weight: 418,50g. 22K-916/1000.
Origin :
-Offered by King Leopold II to Baron Adrien Goffinet and in gratitude for his good and loyal services
Courtesy: HVMC
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Happy Birthday to Scrap Gege!!
ଘ( Ŏ u Ŏ)/☆゚.*・。゚
I hope you find lots of great trash and that your temple gets visits!
I made you this jar of instant soup mix for your present. It has dried vegetables and par-boiled rice, and you just have to add water and heat it up and it will be ready to eat in 3 minutes.
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ʰᵒᵖᵉᶠᵘˡˡʸ
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TIARA ALERT: Crown Princess (Raja Puan Muda) Zaheeda of Kedah wore the Kedah Emerald State Tiara at an investiture ceremony at Anak Bukit Palace on 30 June 2024.
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Empress Josephine wearing her Coronation Diadem decorated with diamonds and emeralds. It was destroyed during the Bourbon Restoration.
A similar looking piece is Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia's Field Diadem.
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“One Day More” performed by Ruby’s Solidarity and Salem’s Inner Circle
(In Shade Academy, Ruby puts on her new Vacuo clothes and grabs Crescent Rose.)
RUBY: (SINGING) One day more
Another day, another tough mission
While global unity is coming to fruition
This can still turn bad on a dime
But we can stop it all in time
One day more
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