Modified Brilliant Cuts. Any style of diamond cutting other than the round brilliant or single cut is called a fancy cut, or fancy shape. The cuts that have been developed based on the original round brilliant design are known as modified brilliant cuts. Modified brilliants include the Princess, Marquise, Oval, Pear, Heart and Trillion cuts.
The Empress of Weehawken is a faux memoir from the point-of-view of  Elisabeth Rother, leading us through her amazing life and the lives of her daughter, Renate, and her granddaughter, Irene. Yes, Irene, as in Irene Dische, the author. But as Elisabeth would say, more on that later.
Weesp (Dutch pronunciation: [ÊeËsp] ( listen)) is a town and a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It had a population of 18,255 in 2014. Weesp lies next to the rivers de Vecht and Smal Weesp and also next to the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal. It is in an area called the Vechtstreek. It is only 3 km (1.9 mi) from the end of the Amsterdam metro, but the wide Amsterdam-Rhine Canal keeps it geographically separate. The town is surrounded by open grassland.