Hope Diamond

Comments:
1. The Hope Diamond had brought many people bad luck and tragedy.
2. If the Smithsonian accepts the diamond then the whole country will be in danger.
3. When the Hope Diamond was packaged, it was insured for $1 million and it weighed 61 ounces.
4. The Hope Diamond is the world's largest blue diamond and it is 44.5 carats.
5. Not many people believed in the curse but some were scared.

Questions:
1. So, is the country going to accept the Smithsonian gift?
2. Why can't they put the Hope Diamond to it's original place so it won't cause any more trouble?
3. Why didn't the people get rid the Hope Diamond when they know it's a curse to have it around?
4. What's so special about the Hope Diamond besides the fact that there's a curse on it?

Vocabularies:
1. Guillotine: a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides.
2. Syndicate: a group of individuals or organizations combined or making a joint effort to undertake some specific duty or carry out specific transactions or negotiations.
3. Heathen: an irreligious, uncultured, or uncivilized person

Literary Terms:
1. "Although it is located on a rather busy and unimposing, and it is snugly sandwiched in by surrounding buildings."
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Overview Sentence:
-This is about how the Hope Diamond was sent around being displayed and how the Hope Diamond effected people who owned it.