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Happy birthday to all you March babies. Take your pick: your March birthstone can be the blue aquamarine or red-speckled bloodstone.
Garnets, the January birthstone, are often thought to be red gemstones. But they also come in yellow, green, orange, brown and black.
The December birthstone is 1 of 3 gemstones, the exquisite blue-green turquoise, dazzling zircon, or the magnificent blue-violet tanzanite. Your choice!
The November birthstone, topaz, comes in lots of colors. It's a much-loved gemstone in jewelry, with myths that date to ancient times. Another choice is citrine.
Take your pick: the October birthstone is either the striking iridescent opal or the many-colored tourmaline. Learn the lore of these pretty gemstones here.
Sapphire, the September birthstone, is typically blue, the color caused by small amounts of titanium and iron in the crystal structure.
The August birthstone can be crystalline green peridot, colorful spinel, or banded sardonyx. Take your pick of these colorful gemstones, August babies!
For June babies, pick any of these as your June birthstone: a gleaming pearl, a glowing moonstone, or a colorful and exotic alexandrite. All are lovely choices.
For those born in May, the May birthstone is the emerald, a type of beryl colored green by chromium. Perfect emeralds are among the rarest of all gemstones.
Happy birthday, April babies! The April birthstone, the diamond, is the hardest of the known gems. And it's the rich cousin of graphite.
Are you a February baby? Here's some cool info about your February birthstone, the amethyst. Read the lore of this purple stone, a variety of quartz.
The July birthstone, the ruby, is among the most prized of the precious stones. It is one of the hardest gemstones, chemically related to the sapphire.
Birthstones are special stones associated with each month of the year. They have a place in history, mythology and science. Check out the special story of your birthstone.
These 3 planets - 2 very bright ones and a fainter one - are lined up in the early morning sky now, nearly equidistant from each other.
An early result from a long-term study of 40,000 households in the UK suggests that a mother's happiness is key to the happiness of children.