Archive for April, 2007



Premier Rose Diamond

The Premier Rose Diamond (353.9 ct.) was one of the large rare gems produced by Premier Mine, of De Beers in South Africa.

Contents

1 History

1.1 Cutting
1.2 Name
1.3 Details

2 External links

History
It was mined in March 1978. The diamond was purchased by Mouw Diamond Cutting in Johannesburg in partnership with William Goldberg of New York. […]

Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill may have one of the following meanings.

“Jack and Jill” (song) is a nursery rhyme.

, an 1880 novel by Louisa Mary Alcott

“Jack and Jill” (Raydio song) is a song by Raydio released in 1978.

Jack and Jill (dance) is a dance competition format.

Jack and Jill (magazine) is a children’s […]

Clobyosh

Clobyosh (also known as Bela also known as “Klabberjas”) is a trick-taking card game played in Jewish communities in many parts of the world. The rules of Clobyosh are very close to those of the French card game Belote and the Croatian card game Belot (which also is called Bela), but with a few significant […]

Edwin Foster Coddington

Asteroids discovered: 3

439 Ohio
October 13 1898

440 Theodora
October 13 1898

445 Edna
October 2 1899

Edwin Foster Coddington (June 24 1870–December 21 1950) was an American astronomer.

He co-discovered the comet C/1898 L1 (Coddington-Pauly), also known by the older designation Comet 1898 VII. He also discovered a few asteroids, and […]

Earth Defense Force

Earth Defense Force may refer to:

The Mysterians (地球防衛軍, Earth Defense Force), a Japanese science fiction film.

The Chikyuu Boueigun (Earth Defense Force) series of video games by Sandlot, which include:

The Chikyuu Boueigun (2003), released as Monster Attack in Europe.

Chikyuu Boueigun 2 (2005), released as Global Defense Force in Europe.

Chikyuu Boueigun 3 (2006), released as Earth Defense […]

Dark Tales of Japan

Dark Tales of Japan (Suiyô puremia: sekai saikyô J horâ SP Nihon no kowai yoru) is a collection of five short horror films that are directed by notable Japanese film directors.

The five tales are:

Episode 1: The Spiderwoman (Episôdo 4: Kumo-onna). Directed by Yoshihiro Nakamura; teleplay by Yoshihiro Nakamura; starring Shôzô Endô, Yoshinori Okada, Miyako […]

CSKA Moscow

CSKA Moscow (Central Sports Army Club Moscow, Russian: ЦСКА Москва) is a major Russian sports club based in Moscow. It is popularly referred to as “Red Army” or “the Red Army team” because during the Soviet era, it was a part of the Armed Forces sports society, which in its turn was associated with […]

Diamond Education College

Diamond Education College based in Johannesburg, South Africa, provides various training courses enabling students to evaluate and grade rough diamonds, mark rough diamonds for polishing, and evaluate and grade polished diamonds.

External links

THE OFFICIAL ROUGH DIAMOND EDUCATION AUTHORITY / CORLIA ROBERTS

External links

Educationisforever.org

References

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At the 1906 Summer Olympics, four events in tennis were contested. Now called the Intercalated Games, the 1906 Games are no longer considered as an official Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee.

Medal summary

Men’s singles

Men’s doubles

Women’s singles

Mixed doubles

Medal table

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Denise Perrier

Denise Perrier (born 1935) is a French model and actress. She now goes by “Denise Perrier Lanfranchi.”

Perrier was the third person to be chosen as Miss World in 1953, representing France; the same year that France also won the Miss Universe pageant by Christiane Martel.

Perrier has done little acting. Her most memorable scene […]

Don Berry

Don Berry may be:

Don Berry (author)

Don Berry (golfer)

Don Berry (statistician)

References

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Smuggling in literature

This page lists works of fiction whose primary subject matter is smuggling:

Eric Ambler: The Light of Day (filmed as Topkapi)

Eric Ambler: Passage of Arms

S.R. Crockett: The Raiders

Rudyard Kipling: A Smuggler’s Song (poem)

Daphne du Maurier: Jamaica Inn (although this is also concerned with wrecking)

J. Meade Falkner: Moonfleet

Ian Fleming: Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond)

Martha Grimes: The Lamorna […]

Martin Davila

Martin Davila Gandara is a traditionalist Catholic Sedevacantist bishop from Acapulco, Mexico. He was ordained priest on June 29, 1989 by Moises Carmona and consecrated bishop on May 11, 1999 by Mark Pivarunas.

He presides over the Union Catolica Trento founded by the late bishops Zamora and Carmona, and over its seminary in Mexico.

References

Apple - […]

Donkey’s Tail

for the plant named Donkey’s tail see Sedum morganianum

Donkey’s Tail () was a Russian artistic group created from the most radical members of the Jack of Diamonds group. The group included such painters as: Mikhail Larionov (inventor of the name), Natalia Gontcharova, Kazimir Malevich, Marc Chagall, and Alexander Shevchenko. The group was influenced by the […]

Cream (song)

“Cream” is a rock and roll song by Prince and the New Power Generation from the 1991 album Diamonds and Pearls. The song is Prince’s fifth (and currently last) U.S. number one hit single. Prince has claimed that he had written the song while standing in front of a mirror.

The single’s B-side was […]

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Juul Haalmeyer

Juul Haalmeyer is a costume designer, best known for doing costume design on several iterations of SCTV. In addition, he was the “leader” of the Juul Haalmeyer Dancers, a woefully inept troupe of variety show dancers made up mostly of writers and crew on SCTV. Haalmeyer also worked a costume designer for many television […]

Shock diamond

Shock diamonds (also known as Mach diamonds or Mach disks) are a formation of shock waves in the exhaust plume of an aerospace propulsion system, such as a supersonic jet engine, rocket, ramjet, or scramjet. It is formed when the supersonic exhaust from a nozzle is slightly over or under-expanded, meaning that the pressure of […]

Kirby’s Pinball Land

Kirby’s Pinball Land is a pinball video game for the Game Boy starring Kirby as the ball. The game features three pinball tables, each owned by a classic boss of the Kirby series: Wispy Woods, Kracko, and the Poppy Brothers.

Contents

1 Gameplay

1.1 Lives
1.2 Minigames

2 External links

Gameplay
The game plays out just like a game of pinball, […]

Dog-show judge

A dog-Breed-show judge is a person that is qualified to evaluate dogs at a conformation show. At small shows, there might be only one judge for all breeds and classes. At larger shows, there might be several judges, with each responsible for only certain breeds or classes.

Qualifications
Because dogs are judged based on how well […]

Jack Maitland

Jack Maitland (born 1948, near Pittsburgh) was an American football player who played running back in the NFL in the 1970’s and earned a Super Bowl ring. He attended Upper St. Clair High School near Pittsburgh, then Williams College. His pro-career was spent with both the Baltimore Colts and the New England Patriots. […]

Great Gulf (Middle-earth)

In the fictional universe of Middle-earth by J. R. R. Tolkien, the Great Gulf was a great gulf which divided Beleriand and the other northern parts of Middle-earth from the unknown south during the First Age.

The Great Gulf was created after the destruction of the Two Lamps by Melkor and in the following war, when […]

The Mighty Diamonds

The Mighty Diamonds are a Jamaican harmony trio, recording roots reggae with a strong Rastafarian influence. The group, which comprises Donald “Tabby” Shaw, Fitzroy “Bunny” Simpson, and Lloyd “Judge” Ferguson, was formed in 1969 and remains together as of 2006. They are best-known for their 1976 debut album Right Time produced by Joseph […]

Ole Bornedal

Ole Bornedal (b. 26 May 1959, Nørresundby, Denmark) is a Danish film director, actor and producer.

He wrote and directed Nattevagten (Nightwatch, 1994), a thriller about a law student who works in a morgue as a night-watchman, and becomes implicated in a series of murders of prostitutes. He also directed an English language remake (Nightwatch) in […]

This is the full table of the medal count of the 1952 Summer Olympics. These rankings sort by the number of gold medals earned by a country. The number of silvers is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze. If, after the above, countries are still tied, equal ranking is given and […]

Crown of Queen Adelaide

The Crown of Queen Adelaide was the consort crown of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife and Queen consort of King William IV of the United Kingdom. It was used at the coronation of William and Adelaide in 1831. It was emptied of its jewels soon afterwards, was not worn again by Queen Adelaide, and has never […]

Jack of Diamonds

Jack of Diamonds may refer to:

The playing card.

Jack of Diamonds, a group of artists founded in 1909 in Moscow.

Jack of Diamonds, a 1967 film directed by Don Taylor.

Jack of Diamonds, a 2001 film directed by Jon Kirby and Mitchell Morgan.

Jack of Diamonds (song)

References

Jewelry: diamond jewelry, engagement rings, earrings, bracelets […]

The Curse of Scotland

The curse of Scotland, also known as the Scourge of Scotland, is a term used in poker, bridge and various other card games for the nine of diamonds. The exact origins of the term is disputed but several theories exists.

The most common story is that the term arose after the Massacre of Glencoe due […]

David Kirby (judge)

David Kirby is a current justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and brother of High Court judge Michael Kirby and, like his brother, attended Fort Street High School.

Prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court, he was a leading senior counsel at the New South Wales Bar.

References

IGN: Kirby Canvas Curse Review IGN […]

Hit or Miss

Hit or Miss is a solitaire card game which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. It is one of the unique solitaire card games because the player only deals the cards one at a time.

As the player deals the cards, he says the words “ace, two, three, four… nine, ten, jack, queen, king, ace…” […]

1749 in science

The year 1749 in science and technology involved some significant events.

Awards

Copley Medal: John Harrison

Births

March 23 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician (d. 1827)

May 17 - Edward Jenner, inventor of the vaccine (d. 1823)

Abraham Gottlob Werner, geologist (d. 1817)

Deaths

September 10 - Emilie du Chatelet, French mathematician and physicist (born 1706)

References

SCORE Science In addition […]

“From the Bottom of My Heart” is an R&B song written by Chuck Willis<ref>BMI Repertoire</ref>recorded by both The Clovers and The Diamonds.

References
References

The Diamonds The Diamonds were a clean-cut white vocal group that had sixteen hits between 1956 and 1961, ten which were covers of songs sung by black R&B artists
Diamonds | American Museum of […]

Invite Them Up (album)

Invite Them Up is a four disc (3 CD and 1 DVD) collection of highlights from the weekly comedy showcase Invite Them Up currated by Eugene Mirman, Bobby Tisdale, and Holly Schlesinger released on December 6, 2005 on Comedy Central Records.

Contents

1 Track listing

1.1 CD 1
1.2 CD 2
1.3 CD 3
1.4 DVD

2 External links

Track listing

CD 1

Intro

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Trachea

Trachea is a common biological term for an airway through which respiratory air transport takes place in organisms.

Vertebrate trachea, in terrestrial vertebrates, such as birds and mammals, the trachea allows oxygen and carbon dioxide to move from the throat to the lungs

Invertebrate trachea, in terrestrial invertebrates, such as onychophorans and insects, tracheae […]

Poison Pen

Poison Pen is the third studio album by Chino XL, an American hip hop musician. Fans have been waiting for this release ever since Chino XL release , which featured the tracks “Beastin’”, “Our Time”, and “Wordsmith”. Poison Pen was released as a 2-disc special collector’s edition. Every copy was autographed by Chino XL with […]

Martha Stewart Baby

Martha Stewart Baby was a childcare magazine published in the mid-2000s. Martha Stewart Baby, which was launched in 2001, specialized in projects and topics for parents related to the care of newborn children from 3 monthes to 2 years old. It was published biannually by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.

References

No Doubt history, information, news, links, pictures […]

The Truth About Diamonds

The Truth About Diamonds is a novel by Nicole Richie. It was released in 2005. The novel tells the story of Chloe Parker, a woman in her early 20s who had been adopted at the age of seven by a music superstar and his wife, and who now associates with Hollywood celebrities. The novel is […]

John Turner (footballer)

John Turner (born February 12 1986 in Harrow, London) is an English footballer, who currently plays for King’s Lynn. He is 178cm (5′10″) tall and plays as a forward.

He joined Cambridge United’s youth scheme in the summer of 2002, after leaving Aston Villa’s youth academy..

He made his debut on 2003-04-12 in League Two against Exeter […]

I Love the ’90s: Part Deux is a miniseries on VH1 in which various music and TV personalities reminisce about 1990s culture. It premiered on January 17, 2005. This series is a sequel to I Love the ’90s. Its title is a parody of Hot Shots! Part Deux.

Recurring segments
In addition to the commentary on specific […]

Opener

Opener may refer to:

Opening batsman in the game of cricket

Conversation opener or pick-up line

Opener (8mm album)

Openers may refer to the plural of ‘opener’, or to:

Two or more playing cards that form the minimum starting hand to start the betting in draw poker

References

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Denzo Ishisaki

Denzo Ishisaki, Japanese: 石崎 伝蔵; Ishisaki Denzo (October 20, 1886 – April 29, 1999) was for a short time Japan’s oldest person and the world’s oldest man. He lived in Ibaraki Prefecture. Ishisaki apparently became the world’s oldest man after the December 25, 1998 passing of Walter Richardson of the USA, who was 113. He […]

Shock diamond

Shock diamonds (also known as Mach diamonds or Mach disks) are a formation of shock waves in the exhaust plume of an aerospace propulsion system, such as a supersonic jet engine, rocket, ramjet, or scramjet. It is formed when the supersonic exhaust from a nozzle is slightly over or under-expanded, meaning that the pressure of […]

Aber Diamond

Aber Diamond Corporation (; ) is a Toronto, Canada specialist diamond mining and retail company.

The company holds a 40% stake in the Diavik Diamonds Project. Production at the Diavik Diamond Mine, Canada’s second diamond mine, is operated by Aber’s joint venture partner, Diavik Diamond Mines Inc., a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Group. The mine began […]

Jack Jackson

Jack Jackson is a name shared by a number of individuals:

Jack Jackson (1906-1978), British bandleader and radio disc jockey

Jack Jackson (1941-2006), known as Jaxon, US cartoonist

Union Jack Jackson, British comics character

References

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Spooky (album)

Spooky was the debut album of British shoegazing act Lush produced by Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins. It reached the British Top Ten and topped the national indie charts. The album produced three singles, “Nothing Natural”, “For Love”, and “Superblast!”

Track listing

“Stray” (Berenyi) – 2:07

“Nothing Natural” (Anderson) – 5:54

“Tiny Smiles” […]