Archive for October, 2007



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 […]

Oppenheimer Diamond

The Oppenheimer Diamond, a nearly perfectly-formed 253.7 carat (50.74 g) yellow diamond crystal, is one of the largest uncut diamonds in the world. It measures approximately 20 × 20 millimeters. It was discovered in the Dutoitspan Mine, Kimberly, South Africa in 1964. Harry Winston acquired the stone and presented it to the Smithsonian […]

Bert G. Phillips

Bert Geer Phillips was one of the founding members of the Taos Society of Artists and a part of the Taos art colony. Phillips lived in Taos, New Mexico from 1898.

References

Diamonds | American Museum of Natural History Overview of the Diamond Exhibition presented at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Dirty Diamonds

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 […]

Diamond Tree

The Diamond Tree is a giant Karri tree located 10km South of Manjimup, Western Australia on the South Western Highway.

A wooden viewing platform built in 1939 is located 52 metres up, and is the oldest wooden platform fire look-out still in use today.

The Diamond Tree is one of three climbing trees in the Southern Forests […]

Additive group

In mathematics, an additive group may be

an abelian group, when it is written using the symbol + for its binary operation

the underlying group under addition of a field, ring, vector space or other structure having addition as one of its operations

a group scheme representing the underlying-additive-group functor.

References

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Jack Martin

Jack Martin can refer to any of the following people:

Jack Martin, a former ice hockey player in the National Hockey League

Jack Martin (cricketer), English Test cricketer

Jack Martin (infielder), Major League Baseball player in the 1900s and 1910s

Jack Martin Smith, a director

Jack Martin (author), an author who is most famous for […]

Rescue Through Tomahawk

Rescue Through Tomahawk is an album by alaska!. It was released on April 12, 2005 on Altitude Records.

Track listing

“The Fury of Trees”

“Krystal Korpse”

“Real Is Your Control”

“Kiss You”

“Surrender”

“Through the Years”

“Interlude/Lose Yourself”

“C the Shape”

“The Light”

“Stay”

References

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John Taylor (Taylor Ham)

John Taylor (1837-1909) created Taylor Ham. He was also the founder of Taylor Provisions Company and the Taylor Opera House in Trenton, New Jersey. (Taylor Street in that city is also named for him.)

He helped to abolish the street markets of New Jersey, and served as the first president of the Inter-State Fair.

He […]

14 Diamonds

14 Diamonds is a compilation album by the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius. It was only released in Japan.

Track listing

“Hands of Time” – 5:36

“Distant Skies” – 4:10

“Tomorrow” – 4:53

“Coming Home” – 5:35

“Destiny” – 10:14

“Future Shock” – 4:34

“Black Diamond” – 5:44

“Why Are We Here” – 4:43

“We Are The Future” – 5:18

“Forever” – 3:07

“Hunting High And Low” […]

IBM 709/90 9PAC

9PAC is a common abbreviation for 709 PACkage. It was a report generator for the IBM 7090, developed in 1959.

Further reading

Sammet 1969, p.314. “IBM 7090 Prog Sys, SHARE 7090 9PAC Part I: Intro and Gen Princs”, IBM J28-6166, White Plains, 1961.

References
References

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Funky Monks

Funky Monks is the title of a 1991 documentary (also the title of a song from the 1991 album Blood Sugar Sex Magik) about the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers and the recording of their highly successful 1991 Warner Bros. debut Blood Sugar Sex Magik. The album was produced by Rick Rubin and recorded […]

Natural phenomenon

A natural phenomenon is a non-artificial event in the physical sense, and therefore not produced by humans, although it may affect humans (e.g. bacteria, ageing, natural disasters). Common examples of natural phenomena include volcanic eruptions, weather, and decay.

See also

Nature

Geological phenomenon

Physical phenomenon

References

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Brozel

Brozel is a method for intervening against an opposing 1NT opening bid. It features the following calls:

Double – shows any single suit; advancer bids 2♣, after which intervenor corrects to his actual suit (or passes with clubs). This was originally played as requiring either a solid suit or a very good suit and […]

Mathilde Octavie Tafna

Mathilde Octavie Tafna Albina (March 16, 1895 - May 1, 2007) was the oldest living person of a French possession since the death of 113-year-old Julia Sinédia-Cazour on October 6, 2005, until her own death at age 112. Living in Guadeloupe, she was the third-oldest French person and the 19th oldest person in the world. […]

Everything’s Alright Forever

Everything’s Alright Forever is the second album by English indie rock group The Boo Radleys, released in 1992.

Track listing

“Spaniard”

“Towards The Light”

“Losing It (Song For Abigail)”

“Memory Babe”

“Skyscraper”

“I Feel Nothing”

“Room At The Top”

“Does This Hurt?”

“Sparrow”

“Time Fades Fast”

“Firesky”

“Song For The Morning To Sing”

“Lazy Day”

“Paradise”

Early copies of the vinyl edition came with a free 7″ single Sunfly.

References

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Minor suit

In contract bridge the minor suits are diamonds () and clubs (). They are given that name because contracts made in those suits score less (20 points per contracted trick) than contracts made in the major suits (30 points), and they rank lower in bidding. In particular, one can make game with a bid of […]

14 Diamonds

14 Diamonds is a compilation album by the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius. It was only released in Japan.

Track listing

“Hands of Time” – 5:36

“Distant Skies” – 4:10

“Tomorrow” – 4:53

“Coming Home” – 5:35

“Destiny” – 10:14

“Future Shock” – 4:34

“Black Diamond” – 5:44

“Why Are We Here” – 4:43

“We Are The Future” – 5:18

“Forever” – 3:07

“Hunting High And Low” […]

Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life is an album released by Monty Python in 1983, in conjunction with the film Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life. The album mainly consists of sketches from the film, with a few links performed by Michael Palin. A CD version was later released.

A few pieces of dialogue are on […]

Moussaieff Red Diamond

The Moussaieff Red Diamond is a diamond measuring 5.11 carats (1.022 g) with a triangular brilliant cut (sometimes called a trillion or a trilliant cut), rated in color as Fancy Red by the Gemological Institute of America. While this may seem relatively small when compared to other famous diamonds, the Moussaieff Red is, in […]

Ilya Mashkov

Ilya Ivanovich Mashkov () (1881-1944) was a Russian artist, one of the most significant and at the same time most characteristic painters of the circle of “Jack of Diamonds” (Russian: Бубновый Валет).

He was born in the cossack village Mikhailovskaya-on-Don (near Volgograd) in a peasant family. After arriving at Moscow in 1900 he attended […]

Four Little Diamonds

“Four Little Diamonds” is a song by the rock music group Electric Light Orchestra from their 1983 album Secret Messages. It also featured on their compilation albums Afterglow and Flashback.
The song refers to the search made by the singer for his cheating lover who emotionally conned him out of a ring which had ‘Four Little […]

Big Iron

“Big Iron” is a country ballad by Marty Robbins, originally released as an album track on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959, then as a single in February 1960. It tells the story of an unnamed Arizona Ranger’s gunfight with an outlaw named Texas Red (modeled on Billy the Kid) in the […]

The Planet’s Funniest Animals is a United States television program featured on the Animal Planet cable channel. Following a similar format as America’s Funniest Home Videos and others, the program shows a series of home movies on video submitted by viewers featuring humorous and odd behavior by pets and animals that are played with a […]

Thunder (song)

“Thunder” is a song by Prince and the New Power Generation, from the 1991 album Diamonds and Pearls. It was issued as a 12-inch single picture disc in the UK only. The lyrics refer to the night Prince decided to withdraw The Black Album, when he was rumored to have suffered a bad ecstasy […]

Proof (film)

Proof (film) may refer to:

Proof (1991 film), an Australian film directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, starring Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, and Russell Crowe

Proof (2005 film), a film directed by John Madden, starring Anthony Hopkins, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jake Gyllenhaal

References

Fido, Canadian Film: Directed by Andrew Currie Fido: Starring Carrie-Anne Moss, Billy Connolly, Dylan Baker, Henry Czerny, Tim […]

The Eight Legged Groove Machineis the debut album from The Wonder Stuff from August 1988

Track listing

“Red Berry Joy Town”

“No, For The 13th Time”

“It’s Yer Money I’m After, Baby”

“Rue The Day”

“Give, Give, Give Me More, More, More”

“Like A Merry Go Round”

“The Animals And Me”

“A Wish Away”

[…]

Jack Graham

Jack Graham is the name of:

Jack Gilbert Graham, mass murderer

Jack Graham (footballer), Australian rules footballer

Jack Graham, baseball player

Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas

References

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These are the Billboard magazine number one albums of 1990, per the Billboard 200.

Issue Date
Album
Artist

January 6
…But Seriously
Phil Collins

January 13
Girl You Know It’s True
Milli Vanilli

January 20
[…]

Vs. Time

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. […]

Moussaieff Red Diamond

The Moussaieff Red Diamond is a diamond measuring 5.11 carats (1.022 g) with a triangular brilliant cut (sometimes called a trillion or a trilliant cut), rated in color as Fancy Red by the Gemological Institute of America. While this may seem relatively small when compared to other famous diamonds, the Moussaieff Red is, in […]

Chris Taylor (ice hockey)

Chris Taylor (born March 6, 1972 in Stratford, Ontario) is a professional ice hockey player who has played for the New York Islanders, Boston Bruins and Buffalo Sabres of the NHL. He had a stellar junior career with the London Knights and graduated from the team as their all-time points leader with 378 (he […]

Mercury4 (album)

Mercury4 is the 2004 debut album by Melbourne boy band Mercury4.

Making of the album and chart success
BMG recruited hit production team the Matrix who had produced hits for Avril Lavigne and Hilary Duff to write and produce their first single “Get Me Some”. Released in June 2003 in Australia, it rose to the top five […]

Cat’s Eye

Cat’s Eye could refer to:

Cat eye tube, an electron tube used as a visual indicator

Cymophane, a variety of chrysoberyl

Chatoyancy, the reflective property of certain gems

Cat’s eye (road), a type of road marker using retroreflectors

Cat’s Eye Nebula, a planetary nebula

Turbo smaragdus, a gastropod endemic to New Zealand

Cat’s Eye is also […]

Marky Mark

Marky Mark can mean:

Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, a Hip-Hop group.

Mark Wahlberg, the rapper-turned-actor who led said group.

Marky Mark, a professional wrestler for Stampede Wrestling.

The old nickname of DJ Marky.

References

Funky16Corners: March 2006 The cut features some rolling piano and funky drums, with a wailing sax but they also manage […]

Total inorganic carbon

The total inorganic carbon (CT, or TIC) or Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) is the sum of inorganic carbon species in a solution. The inorganic carbon species include carbon dioxide, carbonic acid, bicarbonate anion, and carbonate anion. It is customary to express carbon dioxide and carbonic acid simultaneously as CO2* . CT is […]

Dicing saw

A dicing saw is a kind of saw which employs a high-speed spindle fitted with an extremely thin diamond blade or diamond wire to dice, cut, or groove semiconductor wafers, silicon, glass, ceramic, crystal, and many other types of material.

See also

Disco Corporation

Diamond tools

References

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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 […]

Sympathy

Sympathy is a social affinity in which one person stands with another person, closely understanding her or his feelings. Sympathy comes from the Latin sympatha, from Greek: συμπάθεια transliterated as sympatheia, from συν + πάσχω = συμπάσχω literally: to suffer together or “feeling with.” It also can mean being affected by like feelings or […]

Merlin diamond mine

The Merlin diamond mine is one of only three diamond mines in Australia. The mine is located in the Northern Territory of Australia, about 80 kilometres south of Borroloola. The mine operated for a period of about four years from 2000 to mid-2003, during which time it produced about 500,000 carats (100 kg) of […]

Mulle

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 […]

King’s Way

King’s Way is a 45 mile long-distance footpath in Hampshire, England from Winchester Cathedral to Portchester Castle.

This footpath was created by Allan King of the Hampshire Area Rambler’s Association.

The footpath is waymarked by metal and plastic disks found attached to wooden and metal posts, trees and street furniture. These are a red arrow and words […]

Andy Warhol (David Bowie song)

“Andy Warhol” is a song written by David Bowie in 1971 for the album Hunky Dory. This is an all-acoustic song about one of Bowie’s greatest inspirations, the American pop artist Andy Warhol. The song starts with some studio chat where Bowie explains to producer Ken Scott the right pronunciation of the Warhol’s name (”It’s […]

Wardha River

The Wardha river is one of the biggest rivers in Vidarbha region in India. It originates in Satpura Range near Multai in Madhya Pradesh. It is a tributary of the Pranhita River, which ultimately flows into the Godavari River. Vena River and Penganga River are the main tributary of Wardha River. A huge dam […]

Jack of Diamonds (artists)

Jack of Diamonds (), also called Knave Of Diamonds, was a group of artists founded in 1909 in Moscow. The group included Robert Falk, Aristarkh Lentulov, Ilya Mashkov, Alexander V. Kuprin, and Pyotr Konchalovsky. The group’s members considered Paul Cézanne to be the only worthy painter to imitate, the others being too trivial and bourgeois […]

Crown of Louis XV

The Crown of Louis XV is the sole surviving crown from the French ancien regime among the French Crown Jewels.

Until the beginning of the 18th century French kings wore plain crowns unembellished with precious stones. This was changed by King Louis XV in 1722, when he had a new crown created, which he had embellished […]

Monopoly Express Casino

Monopoly Express Casino is a 2006 dice game and spin-off of the Monopoly

Contents

1 Plastic container

Game board

11 Dice

Houses

Score pad

Rule Book

Age Group
18+

See also
Monopoly Express

References

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De Morgan (crater)

De Morgan is a small lunar impact crater that is located in the central region of the Moon, mid-way between D’Arrest crater two crater diameters to the south, and Cayley crater to the north. It is named after British logician Augustus De Morgan.

This crater is circular and bowl-shaped, with a small interior floor at […]

Hilary Duff: The Girl Can Rock is Hilary Duff’s second music DVD. It contains her full concert and the music video for her single “Come Clean”. Some special features of the DVD include Duff’s appearance with Ryan Seacrest, and her getting her first surfing lesson. In addition, the DVD contains footage of Duff recording “Crash […]

Sur la Terre

Sur la Terre (French for “On Earth”) is a 2002 album by DJ Martin Solveig.

Track listing

“Intro”

“Someday”

“I’m a Good Man”

“Destiny”

“Burning”

“Linda”

“You Are My Friend”

“On Your Mind”

“Heart of Africa”

“Mr. President”

“Edony (Clap Your Hands)”

“Sur la Terre”

References

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