A jewellery chain is a metal chain used in jewellery to encircle parts of the body or to support decorative charms and pendants. Jewellery chains are typically made from precious metals such as gold and silver, and have been worn since antiquity, with examples known from ancient Babylonia, Egypt, Greece and Rome. This gold chain, dating from the late 16th century and now in the collection of Livrustkammaren (the Swedish royal armoury), comprises 48 oval links alternating between garnet-set and rock-crystal-set designs, decorated with blue and white enamel. It may be a smaller version of King Charles IX's chain for the Order of Jehova, created in 1607, although another theory suggests that it was made by the goldsmith Ruprecht Miller and worn by King Gustavus Adolphus at his declaration of authority in 1611.Artefact credit: possibly Ruprecht Miller; photographed by Erik Lernestål
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Ryan Davis
- ... that video game journalist Ryan Davis (pictured) was honored in Minecraft's soundtrack?
- ... that a short story in The Bewitched Bourgeois was described by critics as both a "comedy of errors" and a parable about the inevitability of death?
- ... that Yundi is both the youngest first‑prize winner and the youngest judge in the history of the International Chopin Piano Competition?
- ... that Olivia Rodrigo's song "The Cure", which shares its name with a goth-rock band, was released on World Goth Day?
- ... that Toby Fox described the development of his 2008 ROM hack as excavating ruins "made of crumbly graham crackers" with "hands made of atom bombs"?
- ... that the Kyoto Shimbun helped the Kobe Shimbun after their office was destroyed by an earthquake, one year after the two newspapers signed a mutual-aid agreement?
- ... that Genghis Khan's daughter Qojin got married between 23 and 27, older than usual for a Mongol woman?
- ... that Massachusetts philanthropist Helen Storrow invited "an invasion of modernity" on her estate?
- ... that a 17-year-old discovered an exoplanet orbiting two stars?
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Virat Kohli
- In Myanmar, an explosion at a Ta'ang National Liberation Army base leaves 43 people dead.
- In Twenty20 cricket, the Indian Premier League concludes with Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeating Gujarat Titans in the final (player of the match Virat Kohli pictured).
- Following the collapse of Evika Siliņa's coalition, Andris Kulbergs is appointed prime minister of Latvia.
- Pope Leo XIV issues his first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, which expresses concerns about artificial intelligence.
Selected anniversaries
editJune 6: National Day of Sweden; Queensland Day in Queensland, Australia
Fuad Stephens
- 1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: Milanese forces with Swiss mercenaries defeated the French in Novara, forcing them to withdraw from the Duchy of Milan and Italy.
- 1894 – Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to protect and support miners engaged in a five-month strike in Cripple Creek.
- 1971 – Vietnam War: Australian forces attacked a heavily fortified North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh.
- 1976 – A plane crashed near Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Malaysia, killing politicians Fuad Stephens (pictured) and Peter Joinud Mojuntin, along with nine others.
- 2021 – A man rammed a pickup truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians in Ontario, Canada, killing 4 members of the same family.
- Robert Passelewe (d. 1252)
- John A. Macdonald (d. 1891)
- Maria Alyokhina (b. 1988)
- Rayan Aït-Nouri (b. 2001)
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