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jade
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jade a hard, typically green stone used for ornaments and implements and consisting of the minerals jadeite or nephrite. The word is recorded from the late 16th century, and comes via French from Spanish
piedra de ijada ‘stone of the flank’ (i.e., stone for colic, which it was believed to cure).
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Jade Art Group Announces Fifth Jade Sales Agreement Totaling US$14.4 Million.
Business Wire; 3/3/2008; 700+ words
; NEW YORK & JIANGXI, China -- Jade Art Group Inc. (OTCBB: JADG) announced today that Jiangxi SheTai Jade Industrial Co., Ltd. ("JST"), its...the distribution rights for the SheTai Jade mine, one of the largest jade mines in...
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Jade Extends Reach to Windows Mobile Devices.
M2 Presswire; 10/29/2007; 700+ words
; M2 PRESSWIRE-29 October 2007-Jade Software Corporation: Jade Extends Reach to Windows Mobile Devices(C)1994-2007...COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:29102007 Christchurch, New Zealand - Jade Software Corporation (Jade) today announced the release...
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Jade Art Group's Recent Jade Evaluation Conference Elicits High Praise from Experts.
Business Wire; 1/28/2008; 700+ words
; NEW YORK & JIANGXI, China -- Jade Art Group Inc. (OTCBB: JADG) announced today the outcome of its recently sponsored Jade Evaluation Conference, held on January 18, 2008, where national jade experts noted the perceived superiority...
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Jade hunter: a scientist travels far and wide in search of an elusive, rare gemstone.(EARTH: GEMS AND MINERALS)(George Harlow)(blue-green jade)
Magazine article from: Science World; 12/10/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Guatemala in search of an ancient source of the gemstone jade. Harlow is curator of one of the world's great...City. Here in Guatemala, he transforms into a "jade hunter"--a jadero. Jade has been treasured around the world for thousands...
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Jade Art Group Announces Two Sales Agreements Totaling US$9.7 Million.
Business Wire; 2/25/2008; 700+ words
; NEW YORK & JIANGXI, China -- Jade Art Group Inc. (OTCBB: JADG) announced today that Jiangxi SheTai Jade Industrial Co., Ltd. ("JST"), its...the distribution rights for the SheTai Jade mine, one of the largest jade mines in...
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Jade Art Group Announces Financial Results for the Five Month Transitional Period Ended December 31, 2007 and Reaffirms 2008 Outlook.(Financial report)
Business Wire; 3/27/2008; 700+ words
; NEW YORK & JIANGXI, China -- Jade Art Group Inc. (OTCBB: JADG), historically a manufacturer...China and, in early 2008, becoming a distributor of raw jade sourced from the SheTai Jade mine in China, today announced its operating results...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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JADE'S STORY; JADE 1981 - 2009.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 3/24/2009; 700+ words
; 1981 Jade (after Jade Jagger) Cerisa Lorraine Goody is born on June 5 at in Bermondsey, South...motorbike crash and spends two years in hospital. Relatives look after Jade. 1988 When Jackiey finally goes home, Jade takes over the running of...
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Jade's talent for pig ignorance backfires.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England); 1/22/2007; 700+ words
; Byline: TONY PARSONS IF Jade Goody tells us anything about the state...basic human decency? It is not true that Jade Goody has no talent. She is the Picasso...subject of race? It was appalling to see Jade and her two disgusting mates - women so...
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 "Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)")
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Jade makes break to set up own yard
Newspaper article from: Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK); 9/29/2006; 700+ words
; Event rider Jade Lazenby is stepping out from the shadow...sad to see her go," said Lucy, for whom Jade has been stable jockey for the last three...your own." But former Pony Club champion Jade is not completely going it alone. She takes...
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 "Sunday Mirror (London, England)")
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Jade is so full of hate..she's been a bully all of her life; EXCLUSIVE CELEB BB: THE GRAN'S STORY.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England); 1/21/2007; 700+ words
; ...By GRANT HODGSON and DANIEL SANDERSON JADE Goody's grandmother wept last night...star and said she was ashamed of the way Jade had abused Bollywood beauty Shilpa Shetty. Jacqueline, 69, mother of Jade's mixed-race dad Andrew, said...
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Jade
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Jade A term covering minerals of varied color and...composition, credited with occult properties. Jade may be jadeite, nephrite, or chloromelanite...America, and China. In prehistoric times jade was used for utensils and weapons, but in...
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jade
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
jade 1 / jād / • n. a hard, typically...an ornament made of this. ∎ (also jade green ) a light bluish-green: [as adj. ] a baggy jade T-shirt. jade 2 • n. archaic 1. a bad...
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Jade, August Personage of
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Jade, August Personage of In Chinese mythology, the supreme god of heaven and, according to some traditions, the creator of human beings. He concerned himself exclusively with the affairs of the emperor, leaving his heavenly ministers to deal with lesser mortals.
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Jade Emperor
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Jade Emperor (Deity in Chinese folk religion): see YÜ-HUANG .
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The Promise Ring
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...and the Promise Ring later became label mates on Jade Tree Records, and in 1998 Jade Tree, based in Wilmington, Delaware, released...reputation for performing, came to the attention of Jade Tree Records, and the small, independent label...
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