The Victorians frequently used marcasites as substitutes for diamonds. Marcasite, also known as pyrite, was used for this purpose as early as the 1700s. Heliotrope, or bloodstone as the Victorians called, was used throughout the era. Bloodstone is rarely used in modern jewelry so discovering it...
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Thuggee membership was for life, all the way up to the elderly Thugs who still did what they could for the group as cooks or spies—yet the wives and daughters of these men might never know the truth about the male members of their family. Their extreme secrecy combined with their...