Exactly 50 years ago this week, Paul McCartney and the Beatles were in a London recording studio bickering about “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” a song from the Beatles’ White Album that features Desmond Jones taking a trolley to a jewelry store to buy a “20-carat golden ring.” But more on that later. As the Beatles experimented with their first reggae-inspired song, “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” …

A Washington, D.C., man who was widely ridiculed on social media for eating a Kit Kat bar the "wrong" way got the last laugh when The Hershey Company came to his rescue by creating a custom Kit Kat-shaped engagement ring box for his marriage proposal. On May 31, Haley Byrd shared a picture on Twitter of a Kit Kat bar …

We've all witnessed how Mother Nature works in mysterious ways, but who knew she was a World Cup soccer fan? Just three days prior to the Russian national soccer team's exciting quarterfinal match against Croatia in the 2018 FIFA World Cup™, Russian mining giant Alrosa discovered a diamond that looks amazingly like a soccer ball. "Nature creates a variety of bizarre forms, but …

A California man turned a horrific scene into something beautiful Sunday when he found his wife’s bridal jewelry amidst the charred rubble of their devastated home and proposed to her all over again. “She’s the most beautiful woman I’ve ever known, she’s the glue in our family, and I adore her to pieces,” Ishu Rao told the Associated Press, “so …

Adventurer Josh Gates investigates the 2005 theft of one of the most iconic pieces of Hollywood memorabilia of all time — the ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz — during Tuesday night’s episode of “Expedition Unknown” on the Discovery Channel. Following the biggest lead in more than a decade, Gates dons his scuba …

Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you great songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, Elton John sings about suffering from a broken heart in 2001’s “Dark Diamond.” In the song composed by John with lyrics by long-time collaborator Bernie Taupin, the term “dark diamond” is used to describe a person who once …

The “Lotus Ring” has just smashed the Guinness World Record for the most diamonds set in a single ring. By employing an ingenious design featuring 48 individual diamond-encrusted “petals,” Indian jewelers Vishal and Khushbu Agarwal were able to set a staggering 6,690 diamonds into an 18-karat rose gold structure. The intricately detailed ring, which took more than six months to …

Starting in 2022, the French ApoteoSurprise agency will be offering a week-long “Marriage Proposal Around the Moon,” which will literally launch couples into space on a 500,000-kilometer journey to the moon and back. Priced at $145 million, the proposal package includes all the requisite training and a few romantic touches along the way. The self-flying spacecraft, which will take off …

Back in the late 1950s, TV advertising pioneer Rosser Reeves purchased an unmounted star ruby and carried it in his pocket for good luck. This was no ordinary ruby. With its rich red color and well-defined star, the 138.72-carat ruby was said to be the largest and finest star ruby the world has ever known. He called the stone "my …

Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you awesome songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, Taylor Goldsmith of the folk-rock supergroup The New Basement Tapes channels Bob Dylan in “Diamond Ring,” a nearly forgotten song about second chances. In the tune, the song’s protagonist is heading back to St. Louis, where he’s hoping …