Notes:
rough diamond ダイヤモンドの原石;
Crown Jewels 《英》 (戴冠式などの時々に国王[女王]が用いる王冠など王位の象徴の)宝器類;

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How much does it cost to buy one of the world’s biggest diamonds? Lesedi la Rona is the name of a rough diamond that is the size of a tennis ball. It went on sale yesterday at an auction, but no one wanted to pay more than $61 million. The sellers didn’t want to sell it at that price, so it is still for sale. If you want it, you will probably have to pay more than $70 million! What happens to such a large diamond? The largest diamond ever found was the Cullinan. That was more than 100 years ago. The diamond was broken down into smaller diamonds for the Crown Jewels of the U.K. (by Prof.Douglas Jarrell)
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(photo from http://www.bloomberg.com/)

Notes:
incredible: 信じられない;

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When you live in Japan for a long time, you sometimes forget that life is different here. This is what someone wrote on Facebook. “Japan is one of the most incredible countries in the world!! I want to share what happened. My friend lost her wallet and we looked for it at all the places we had gone through, but we couldn’t find it. We went to a police station as the last hope…and someone had picked it up on the street and had taken the wallet to the police!! Of course the money and cards were NOT taken out or used!” (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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