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Necks.
Byline: KATE SULLIVAN
In her book I Feel Bad About My Neck , director and screenwriter Nora Ephron wrote that "our faces are lies and our necks are the truth"however unfortunate that may be. Below, the true neck-related stories that have stood the test of time (even if they've sagged a little).
238: Number of intact pearls on the oldest known pearl necklace (believed to be from 350 B.C.), which was found in 1901 near what is now Iran.
2: Number of Henry VIII's wives (out of six) that he ordered beheaded.
14th: Century Parmigianino painted a Madonna and Child popularly called Madonna With the Long Neck.
2,000,000: Estimated value in livres of the elaborate jewelry involved in 1785's "Affair of the Necklace," which helped ignite the French Revolution.
$1: Price of the Youth-Molde chin strap, worn to stop neck sagging in the 1930s.
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