Archive for August, 2007
Kimberly is a ghost town south of Murfreesboro, Arkansas. The town grew up near John Huddleston’s diamond mine. Kimberly had a population of over 2,000 people. Wooden frame houses were built, some were made into stores, and other businesses. A bank, hotel, and other stores were also built here.
Kimberly was founded after John Huddleston found […]
Jon is a shortened form of the common given name Jonathan. Jon means “Gift of God”.
Jon may also be:
Jon, a common Bask name
Jón, a common Icelandic name
See also
John (disambiguation)
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A spoken game is a game which uses words instead of cards, boards, game pieces, or other paraphernalia.
Spoken games can often also be categorized as guessing games, word games, or because of their freedom from equipment or visual engagement, car games.
Well-known spoken games include Twenty Questions, Riddle Me Ree, and Password. Because of their nature, […]
Children’s culture can be defined in a great number of ways and suffers from being an incredibly broad category. In recent times the study of children’s cultural artifacts, children’s media and literature and the myths and discourses spun around the notion of childhood have all come under scrutiny within academia, primarily in cultural studies, […]
The volume of Earth is 1,083,206,246,123,080,894,852 m3, or around 1.0832×1021 m3, in scientific notation.
Calculation
Earth is an oblate spheroid, resembling a sphere flattened at the poles.
The volume of an oblate spheroid is
<math>V = \frac{4}{3}\pi a^2 b</math>
where <math>\pi</math> is the mathematical constant pi, and <math>a</math> and <math>b</math> are the equatorial and polar radii.
Substituting a = 6,378,135 m and […]
Alldays is a small town in the Limpopo province of South Africa that serves a large area of private game and hunting farms. Population is 1,813.
The Venetia Diamond Mine is situated close to Alldays, located within the 360 square kilometre Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve. It is one of De Beers’ six remaining diamond mines in […]
The Jubilee Diamond, originally known as the Reitz Diamond is a colourless, cushion-shaped diamond weighing 245.35 carats (49.07 grams), making it the sixth largest diamond in the world. It was originally named after Francis William Reitz, the then president of the Orange Free State where the stone was discovered, before being renamed to honour the […]
Voices on the Verge was a folk, country, and rock band formed as a collaboration between four young, formerly-independent, female musicians: Jess Klein, Erin McKeown, Rose Polenzani, and Beth Amsel.
The group formed in 1998 as a way to show the merits of each artist. They mostly played songs that one of the artists had previously […]
Eva Almos is a Canadian voice actress, who voiced Friend Bear and Swift Heart Rabbit in Nelvana’s Care Bears films and TV series, and also appeared in AlfTales.
Almos was also a writer of USA Network’s animated sitcom, Duckman, and as of 2006 has continued this job with An American in Canada and several animated series. […]
Bort or boart is a term used in the diamond industry to refer to shards of gem-grade/quality diamonds. In the manufacturing and heavy industries, “bort” is used to describe dark, imperfectly formed/crystallized diamonds of varying levels of opacity. The lowest grade, “crushing bort”, is crushed by steel mortars and used to make industrial-grade abrasive […]
Dirty Diamonds is the 24th studio album by Alice Cooper. It was released on July 4, 2005 internationally and on August 2 for North America.
The album peaked on Billboard’s “Top Independent Albums” chart at position #17, and on the Billboard 200 album chart at #169 - Cooper’s highest charting album since The Last Temptation, 11 […]
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 […]
“Diamond mine” redirects here. For the game from PopCap Games also known as Diamond Mine, see Bejeweled.
There are a limited number of commercially viable diamond mines currently operating in the world. Diamonds are also mined alluvially over disperse areas, where diamonds have been eroded out of the ground and deposited by water or weather […]
Amazing Grace has been the title of more than one film, including:
Amazing Grace (2006 film), directed by Michael Apted
Amazing Grace (2000 film), directed by Luis Mandoki
Amazing Grace (1974 film), directed by Stan Lathan
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SDNHM The Nature of Diamonds: Facts About Diamonds Most diamonds are over three billion years old, two-thirds the age of the Earth. There […]
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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In law, a directed verdict is an order from the judge presiding over a jury trial that one side or the other wins. Typically, the judge orders a directed verdict after finding that no reasonable jury could reach a decision to the contrary. After a directed verdict, there is no longer any need […]
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)
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Applications—Geochemical Analysis An exception is provided by studies […]
Group 1 element - an element classification for Alkali metal
Group 1 - a FIA classification for auto racing
Group 1 thoroughbred horse races, are the leading events in the sport.
Group 1 Automotive - a publicly traded car dealership group in the United States
References
InformIT: User Groups The Pearson Education User Group Program provides […]
Jan Mikael Håfström (born 1 July 1960 in Lund, Sweden) is a Swedish film writer and director.
Filmography
1408 (2007)
Derailed (2005)
Drowning Ghost (Strandvaskaren) (2004) (written and directed)
Evil (Ondskan) (2003) (written and directed)
Kopps (2003) (written)
Days Like This (Leva livet) (2001) (written and directed)
Sjätte dagen (1999) (TV) (written)
Chock 1 - Dödsängeln […]
Jack “Jumping Jack” McCracken (June 15, 1911 - January 5, 1958) was a basketball player in 1930s and 1940s. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) players of all time and was officially named as the greatest player of all time by the AAU organization.
A native of Chickasha, Oklahoma, […]
Jack Russell may refer to:
Jack Russell (character), the male protagonist from the game Radiata Stories
Jack Russell (Marvel), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
Jack Russell Terrier, a type of small, principally white-bodied, terrier
People named Jack Russell:
Jack “Russer” Russell (1753-1809), little known traveller
Jack Russell (baseball player) (1905-1990), Major League Baseball […]
Ryde or Die Vol. 3 is a 2001 album by the New York based Rap group Ruff Ryders. The album was released on December 18th of that year.
Track listing
#
Title
Songwriters
Producer(s)
Performer (s)
1
“Intro”
Swizz Beatz
Swizz Beatz
2
“Dirrty”
Brain Kidd
Intro & chorus: Petey Pablo
Verse 1: Drag-On
Verse 2: Petey Pablo
Verse 3: Petey Pablo
Verse 4: Drag-On
3
“They Ain’t Ready”
Timbaland
Intro & chorus: Timbaland
Verse 1: Jadakiss
Verse 2: […]
Vs. Time is the second album by Span and features 11 tracks.
The band decided to produce the album themselves, unlike their first album Mass Distraction, which was produced by Gil Norton (who also produced albums by The Pixies).
The track Cut Like Diamonds was released as a single and reached number two in the Norwegian chart. […]
Mullé may also refer to a type of hairstyle know as a Mullet.
Mullé is a Swedish card game. It consists of two deck with all cards except jokers.
The values of the cards are as follows.
10 Diamonds - 16
2 Spades - 15
Ace - 14
Kings - 13
Queens - 12
Jack - 11
10 -> 2 - 10 - 2 […]
The Blue Diamonds were a Dutch 1960s doo-wop duo best known for their chart topping single Ramona. Indo (Dutch-Indonesian) brothers Rudy de Wolff and Riem de Wolff founded the group shortly after immigrating to the Netherlands in 1949.
External links
Fan site
References
Diamonds! Antwerp has been very prominent in diamond cutting for five hundred years—the first written mention […]
de Morgan may refer to:
Augustus De Morgan, a mathematician and logician.
De Morgan’s laws (or De Morgan’s theorem), a set of rules from propositional logic.
The De Morgan Medal, a mathematics prize awarded by the London Mathematical Society.
William De Morgan, a designer, potter, and novelist.
His wife, Evelyn De Morgan, an English pre-Raphaelite painter.
See […]
Charles E. (Chuck) Fipke is a former prospector who discovered the existence of diamonds around Lac de Gras in Canada’s Northwest Territories. He is now a multimillionaire diamond magnate, described as “near-sighted, goateed, short and tough as an oak stump, his speech jolted by a stutter and a hair-trigger laugh”<ref>Krajick, K.: “Barren Lands: An Epic […]
For information extraction-related task, see named entity recognition
Name recognition is a concept used in politics to describe number of people who are aware of a politician. It is considered an important factor in elections, as candidates with low name recognition are unlikely to receive votes from people who only casually follow politics. It also considered […]
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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Real Love may refer to:
“Real Love” (The Beatles song), a song by The Beatles
“Real Love” (Mary J. Blige song), a song by Mary J. Blige
Real Love (Swans album), an album by Swans.
Real Love (Dolly Parton album), an album by Dolly Parton
“Real Love” (1985 song), the title track from that album
“Real Love” (Lee Ryan Song), song […]
Irthlingborough Diamonds were a football club from Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire, England, founded in 1946. In 1992, they merged with Rushden Town to create Rushden and Diamonds.
The Diamonds played their home games at the old Nene Park, which sits on the site of the current stadium.
References
how to buy a diamond Prior to purchasing any particular diamond or […]
The Pumpkin Diamond is a diamond measuring 5.54 carats (1.108 g) rated in color as Fancy Vivid Orange by the Gemological Institute of America. While this may seem relatively small when compared to other famous diamonds, the Pumpkin Diamond is, in fact, one of the largest Fancy Vivid Oranges the GIA reports having rated […]
An empathy gap is a cognitive bias in which a person does not empathize or predict correctly how he/she will feel in the future, i.e. what kind of emotional state he/she will be in.
The term empathy gap was coined by Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert. One of the ideas behind the concept of empathy gap […]
National game might refer to:
America’s National Game: a book by Albert Spalding.
National Games Week: an annual event occurring on Thanksgiving week in the US.
National Bingo Game: (UK): A bingo game using preselcted numbers played in bingo halls in the UK, run by the National Bingo Game Association.
National Game XI: A squad of players selected as […]
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story
0 Comments Published August 6th, 2007 in UncategorizedThe Mary Kay Letourneau Story: All-American Girl is a 2000 television movie based on the real-life story of high school teacher Mary Kay Letourneau, played by Penelope Ann Miller.
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Golden Girl Group Home - Fullfilling the needs of girls. A Therapeutic Group Home for Girls - Nationally accredited by The Council for Accreditation of […]
Howard Reig (born 1921) is a retired television announcer. He was a staff announcer for General Electric starting in 1943, and the National Broadcasting Company from 1952 to 2005. He is most well-known for being the voice of “This is NBC Nightly News” at the beginning of NBC’s evening news program.
Although his announcement […]
The Baken diamond mine is a diamond mine located along the lower Orange River in South Africa. The mine is owned and operated by Trans Hex. The central processing plant has been operational at Baken since 2001.
In 2004 the Baken mine produced 88,063 carats (17.6126 kg); average stone size for the year was […]
The Venetia Diamond Mine is South Africa’s largest producer of diamonds. It is situated close to the South African town of Alldays in the Limpopo province and is located within the 360 km² Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve.
The open-pit mine is one of De Beers’ six remaining diamond mines in South Africa and the only major […]
Mullé may also refer to a type of hairstyle know as a Mullet.
Mullé is a Swedish card game. It consists of two deck with all cards except jokers.
The values of the cards are as follows.
10 Diamonds - 16
2 Spades - 15
Ace - 14
Kings - 13
Queens - 12
Jack - 11
10 -> 2 - 10 - 2 […]
Deividas Šemberas (born September 8 1978) is a Lithuanian professional footballer currently plays right back for Russian Premier League club PFC CSKA Moscow. He plays for his country’s national team and has made over 40 caps.
Šemberas, who is a Lithuanian international, has previously played for Dynamo Moscow and FK Žalgiris Vilnius.
References
Moscow, British Embassy British Embassy, […]
Simon (Симон in Russian) (? - 1512) was the Metropolitan of Moscow between 1495 and 1511.
Simon was a hegumen at the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra. In 1495, he was elected Metropolitan of Moscow and soon won the respect of Ivan III. In 1501, Simon wrote a letter to the clergy of Perm, asking them to admonish their […]
A jack plane is the general-purpose bench plane, used for general smoothing of the edges and sizing of wood. Jack planes are about 15 inches long, and the blade usually has a moderately curved edge. In preparing stock, the jack plane is used after the scrub plane and before the smooth plane. […]
“Diamonds and Pearls” is the title track to Prince and the New Power Generation’s 1991 hit album. The song is an upbeat ballad, given a rock and roll edge with guitar and heavy drumming. The song also features the powerful vocals of NPG member Rosie Gaines. The ballad is an expression of love and not […]
Captain Jack may refer to :
Captain Jack (Native American) (c. 1837–1873), leader of the Modoc tribe
“Captain Jack” (song), a song by Billy Joel on the album Piano Man
Captain Jack (band), a German Europop band fronted by Franky Gee
Captain Jack (film), a 1999 film starring Bob Hoskins
Captain Jack Harkness, a character from […]
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