Coral Tiara | c. 1860 - 1870
Phillips Brothers, in which the dominant partner was Robert Phillips, were the leading supplier of coral goods in London, as well as being important goldsmiths and jewellers. In 1870 the firm advertised that it had ‘the most complete collection of fine coral work in the world’. Robert Phillips received the order of the Crown of Italy for his services to the coral industry in Naples.
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Find more facts at ThinkProgress:
1. Since the last SOTU, the economy has created 1.9 million private sector jobs. [Source]
2. The top 1 percent take home 24 percent of the nation’s income, up from about 9 percent in 1976. [Source]
3. Private sector job…
A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the mid-1950s, describes the many deaths from botched abortions that he saw. ‘The deaths stopped overnight in 1973.’ He never saw another in the 18 years before he retired. ‘That,’ he says, ‘ought to tell people something about keeping abortion legal.’
–It’s about women’s health, pure and simple.
Sunday was the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (via motherjones)
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