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| | Golconda: The Indian El Dorado- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | The legendary Golconda was the Indian El Dorado, a fabled outpost whose streets, so to say, were paved with precious stones. |
 | | The bauble was later owned by William Pitt, the English Prime Minister, who sold it to the Duke of Orleans, the regent of France (hence The Regent). |
 | | Stolen during the French Revolution, it showed up again in 1830 and was bought by Henry Philip Hope of London (hence Hope Diamond), and later by Harry Winston of New York, who donated it to the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, where it now resides. |
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