Alan,
"The diamond, named the
Lesotho Promise is the largest reported find this century and ranks as the fifteenth-largest diamond ever found" bold is mine. Although I believe they mixed centuries <g>
>Somehow I have trouble with the fact that the 15th largest diamond ever found is big news. They are proud to be making history for the 2nd time? Making history? This is the 15th largest. At what point does it stop making history? 20th largest; 50th largest; 75th?
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>I'd have thought that the fact that there have been 14 larger finds would make this one kind of ho-hum.
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