Archive for November, 2007
For other people with the same name, see James Gregory.
James Gregory was a noted 19th century British mineralogist.
When he was sent in 1868 by diamond merchant Harry Emmanuel of London’s Hatton Garden to Hopetown, South Africa to determine if claims of diamonds being found there were true, he investigated and reported back, that “The whole […]
William Aikman (1824-1909) was an American writer and pastor.
According to his work The Future of the Colored Race in America, he was pastor of the Hanover Street Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, Delaware.
Works
The Future of the Colored Race in America: Being an article in the Presbyterian quarterly review of July, 1862
External links
References
Society for Collegiate Journalists […]
The Dresden Green diamond is a 41 carat (8.2 g) natural green diamond that has a historical record dating to 1722, when a London news-sheet carried an article about it in its 25 October-27th edition.
It is named after the capital of Saxony, Germany where it has been on display for most of the last two […]
Ravenstone may refer to:
Ravenstone (band)
It may also refer to places in the United Kingdom:
Ravenstone, Bedfordshire
Ravenstone, Leicestershire
Ravenstone, Milton Keynes
References
Basic Legal Citation: § 1-100 (2007) So completely do many academics, lawyers, and judges identify the process with that book they may refer to putting citations in proper form as "Bluebooking"
NASCAR.COM : Refer a Friend With this […]
Field emission microscopy (FEM) is an analytical technique used in materials science to investigate molecular surface structures and their electronic properties.<ref></ref> Invented by Erwin Müller in 1936, the FEM was one of the first surface analysis instruments that approached near-atomic resolution.
FEM consists of a sharp needle emitter and a detector, such as a fluorescent […]
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 […]
Lloyd Morrison is a Wellington, New Zealand-based business entrepreneur. He founded the infrastructure company Infratil. Morrison is also one of the richest men in New Zealand, his empire valued at $70,000,000 by the New Zealand Listener.
Morrison supports changing the Flag of New Zealand, and in 2003 founded the NZ Flag.com Trust to advocate change.
References
Jointly Founded […]
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 […]
Onandi Lowe (born December 2, 1974) is a Jamaican soccer player. He played at the 1998 World Cup and has earned over 60 caps for Jamaica.
Lowe currently plays for Jamaican National Premier League outfit Portmore United F.C., after spending several years in England, the USA and Canada.
Clubs
Coventry City F.C. (England)
Rushden & Diamonds F.C. (England)
Kansas City […]
Bolivia competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
References
Official Olympic Reports
References
diamond: Definition and Much More from Answers.com diamond n. An extremely hard, highly refractive crystalline form of carbon that is usually colorless and is used as a gemstone and in abrasives,
Blood Diamonds | Conflict Diamonds […]
Jack Dawson may be:
Jack Dawson, a fictional character in the 1997 film Titanic
Jack Dawson, an Australian rugby league player
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
Browse all Diamonds from Excel Diamonds […]
Gary Mulligan (born 23 April 1985 in Dublin) is an Irish U21 international footballer currently playing for Gillingham. He plays predominantly as a striker.
Mulligan started his career at Wolves for whom he made only one appearance as an 82nd minute substitute in the 1-1 draw with Burnley at Turf Moor. Whilst at Wolves, Mulligan […]
“In the beginning” is the phrase that opens two books of the Bible: Genesis and the Gospel of John.
In the Beginning may also refer to:
Contents
1 Music
1.1 Albums
1.2 Songs
1.3 Videos
2 Television
3 Theatre
4 Literature
Music
Albums
In the Beginning (AC/DC album)
In the Beginning (Angel album)
In the Beginning (Circa 1960), an album by The Beatles with Tony Sheridan
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Simon Taylor may be:
Simon Taylor, drummer for InMe.
Simon Taylor, rugby union player.
Simon Taylor, author.
Simon Taylor, convict ship to Western Australia.
Simon Taylor, an Australian rules footballer playing for the Hawthorn Football Club.
References
Don Taylor radio plays - DIVERSITY Don's son Jonathan Dryden Taylor was in the cast, along with Jack Shepherd.VRPCC newsletter, Sept. 2004 - ND. Nigel […]
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, […]
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 […]
List by Family Name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z
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Alpha Tower is a commercial building in Birmingham, England. It was built to a design by George Marsh of Richard Seifert & Partners as the headquarters of ATV. Now operated by the developers GVA Grimley, it provides office space for a number of companies and organisations, including Birmingham City Council, Birmingham Arts Marketing, and the […]
Back at your Ass for the nine-4 is the first album of The New 2 Live Crew (released in 1993). The album became a moderate hit. Includes the hit single, “Hell, Yeah.”
Track listing
“Intro” – 0:52
“Dem A Talk” – 3:53
“Sex…Sex” – 0:17
“Hell, Yeah” – 3:38
“Ohhh!” – 0:18
“Pussy And Dick Thing” […]
Pop Goes the World is the third album by the Canadian pop group Men Without Hats. It was released in 1987.
Track listing
“Intro” (1:49)
“Pop Goes the World” (3:43)
“On Tuesday” (4:08)
“Bright Side of the Sun” (0:42)
“O Sole Mio” (3:57)
“Lose My Way” (3:10)
“Real World” (4:24)
“Moonbeam” (3:37)
“In the […]
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 […]
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
Group travel ideas and discounts - Hotwire.com Learn more about group travel discounts, tours and all-inclusive […]
Penha (pron. ) is a borough in the east side of the city of São Paulo, in Brazil. It’s one of the oldest areas in São Paulo and known because of the church Nossa Senhora da Penha, one of the oldest of the city.
References
Droste's - Certified Diamonds - Lowest Prices Droste's Specializing in Certified Diamonds […]
was the twentieth single of JPop idol group Morning Musume and was released 6 November 2003. It sold a total of 145,340 copies, spent 15 weeks in the Japanese top 200 and peaked at #4.
Contents
1 Track listing
2 Credits
3 Members at time of single
4 External links
Track listing
“Go Girl ~Koi no VIKUTORĪ~” (Tsunku) – 4:09
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Diamonds and Pearls is Prince’s thirteenth album, which was released in 1991. It was the first Prince album to be officially co-credited with the New Power Generation, and spawned many hit singles including the title track, “Gett Off”, “Cream”, “Money Don’t Matter 2 Night” and “Insatiable”. Dancers Lori Werner (then dancing under the stage name […]
Thunderbolt is a Norwegian heavy metal band that combines the classical influence of bands like Iron Maiden, Helloween, and Black Sabbath with a more modern, powerful sound like that of Bad Brains and Entombed.
Contents
1 History
2 Current lineup
3 Previous members
4 Discography
5 Reviews
6 External links
History
After releasing their demo Bandits at 6 O’Clock in 2001, the band received […]
The Cachoeira da Fumaça (”Smoke Falls”, once known as “Glass Falls”, after the pilot who discovered it in 1960) is believed to be Brazil’s highest waterfall, despite some rumors that a higher one was recently discovered in the Amazon.
It’s located in Chapada Diamantina, a very attractive region for adventurers from all over the world, given […]
Diamonds & Rust is a 1975 album by Joan Baez. Baez is often regarded as an interpreter of other people’s work, and on this album she covered songs by Stevie Wonder, The Allman Brothers, and Jackson Browne. But Diamonds & Rust also contained a number of her own compositions, including the title track, a […]
For the concept of a guide, see guide.
For Guiding as an aspect of the Scouting movement, see Girl Guides.
References
League of German Girls - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The League of German Girls (German: Bund Deutscher Mädel or BDM), was the only female youth organization in Nazi Germany.
German Girl - Hot German Girl Tool Free […]
A simplified form of the vorticity equation for an inviscid, divergence-free flow, the barotropic vorticity equation can simply be stated as
<math>\frac{D \eta}{D t} = 0,</math>
where <math>\frac{D}{D t}</math> is the material derivative and
<math>\eta = \zeta + f</math>
is absolute vorticity, with <math>\zeta</math> being relative vorticity, defined as the vertical component of the curl of the fluid
velocity and […]
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 […]
In electronics, a jack is generally a socket (female) connector, but in some cases the term Jack is arbitrarily applied to the plug (see plug) or socket of a pair of mating connectors. To avoid confusion, the specific terms ‘plug’ or ’socket’ are sometimes used. The term jack occurs in several related terms:
In […]
Lil’ Monster is a video game for the Game Boy Color handheld, published by Agetec. The game entailed players to train small monsters used for training and battling, whilst also collecting gems to help you, as the main character, in your quest to battle your brother who has become infamous for his evil deeds all […]
United is the debut album by French rock band Phoenix, released in 2000. Singles released from the album include Too Young, If I Ever Feel Better and Funky Squaredance.
Track listing
Words & Music by Phoenix
“School’s Rules” – 1:32
“Too Young” – 3:19
“Honeymoon” – 5:00
“If I Ever Feel Better” – 4:26
“Party Time” – […]
Chicken fight, also known as Cherry drop or Shoulder wars, is an informal game, often played in a lake or swimming pool, characterized by one team member sitting on the shoulders of his or her teammate. The object of the game is to knock-down or separate an opposing team through a team effort. The person […]
The Round World version is one of the variants of J. R. R. Tolkien’s legendarium, published in the final volumes of The History of Middle-earth. In this version, the Earth was always round, and Arda was the name for the whole solar system instead of just the Earth.
In the Round World version the Sun and […]
The term flatline is usually used to describe an electrical measurement that shows no activity and therefore when represented, shows a flat line instead of a moving one. It almost always refers to either a flatlined electrocardiogram, where the heart shows no electrical activity (the state is called asystole), or to a flat electroencephalogram, in […]
David W. Bradley is a computer game designer and programmer. He is most famous for his role-playing games, including several titles in the Wizardry series.
Among his game designs are three Wizardry titles for Sir-Tech and the action game CyberMage for Origin Systems. In 1995, Bradley founded his own company, Heuristic Park. Heuristic Park released Wizards […]
Diamond Bear Brewing Company is a beer brewery located in Little Rock, Arkansas. Diamond Bear derives its name from the fact Arkansas is the only state in the United States where diamonds are naturally found, and the fact Arkansas was once known as The Bear State.
External links
Diamond Bear Brewery
References
GoldenMine.com - Wholesale Diamond Rings, Jewelry, […]
Holdup is a play in contract bridge, whereby the declarer ducks one or more trick to opponents, usually in notrump contracts, in order to cut their communications. The primary purpose of holdup is to give as many tricks to opponents as needed to exhaust all the cards in the suit from one of their hands. […]
, often stylized “3B LAB.☆”, “3B Lab.Star”, or “3B Lab.s”, is a Japanese popular music group. Its members are Okahira Kenji who previously was in 19, Chiba Takatoshi who provided musics for Kawahara Ayako, Tamakoshi Masahiro, and Uneoki Shuji.
First formed in 2001, this ‘punk rock’ band consisted of Okahira Kenji, Chiba Takatoshi, and Tamakoshi […]
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
Jack - Tag Story Index - USATODAY.com Coach Jack Del Rio said Wednesday that Garrard has a high ankle sprain, meaning he has ligament damage, […]
A Molossus is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. It consists of three long syllables. In English poetry, syllables are usually categorized as being either stressed or unstressed, rather than long or short.
For example, the first line of the following verse is a molossus:
Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! […]
Heimlich Menudo is a fictional anthropomorphic leopard villain in the animated television series Tale Spin. He appears in the episode Vowel Play. His name is a pun on the Heimlich Maneuver, a name he also chose for his master plan to steal all the diamonds in Cape Suzette (see below). He was voiced by Kenneth […]
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 […]
Legs Diamond can mean:
Jack Diamond (gangster), the alias of New York gangster Jack Moran.
Legs Diamond (band), an American rock and roll band.
Legs Diamond (musical), a musical written by Peter Allen
Legz Diamond, provides background vocals on a number of records released by ICP and related artists at Psychopathic Records.
References
Engagement Rings, Diamond Engagement Rings, Loose Diamonds, Ideal […]
Riverton is an electorate of the state of Western Australia. It includes the suburbs of Shelley, Riverton, Willetton, Parkwood, Ferndale and parts of Leeming.
The current MP is Hon. Tony McRae of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), who has been in office since 2001, ousting controversial previous member Graham Kierath of the Liberal Party. McRae […]
The Acme of Control is a card trick in which the magician shows two cards, inserts them into the deck, allows the spectator to shuffle the deck, takes the deck back, and is then able to produce the two cards in any way he pleases, such as from his pocket.
Method
Assuming that the magician wishes to […]
Abdulfez, aka Cliff Taylor, is best known as having been the host of MTV Europe in London when it launched in 1987 all over Europe as the first ever music show to beam down from outer space. His band the Fez Brothers in 1986 hosted another “voice” under the guise of Max Headroom aka […]
The Bath may refer to:
The Bath is the name of one of the electronica duo Lemon Jelly debut EPs
The Child’s Bath, a painting by Mary Cassatt (also known as The Bath)
See also
Bath (disambiguation)
References
Gametrailers.com - Street Fighter IV - Debut Trailer Street Fighter IV: Debut Trailer - A teaser for this highly anticipated sequel.
Stoudamire ready for […]
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