Gold showers

You dress like an Ascension Day parade, Nostradamus said contemptuously. Are you suggesting that donna Alina Orio showers gold on you just for reading to her and cutting her toenails ... 

Sivory Punta Cana, which opened last December in Uvero Alto, offers helicopter airport transfers, caviar-and-gold facials in the Aquatea Spa and an 8,000-bottle wine cellar. Ten of its 55 suites feature plunge pools, and all have double-jet showers, stocked wine coolers and optional butler service. The Ysla Club, an exclusive resort within a resort made up of seven suites with a private pool and beach, is scheduled to open at the end of the year. 

Welten KC, Nishiizumi K, Caffee MW, Masarik J, Wieler R (200le) A complex exposure history of the Gold Basin L4-chondrite shower from cosmogenic radionuclides and noble gases. Lunar Planet Sci XXXII, Abstr 2110 (CD-ROM). 

On the action of fire animated by vital air on the most refractory minerals in which it is shown that all metals except platinum volatilise, gold and silver much more slowly than others, that some metals are incombustible, whilst others burn with a very marked flame, and that iron burns rapidly, throwing out a shower of sparks the use of oxygen in cupellation is advised. 

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