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Black Diamond Equipment ’ s history dates back to the late 1950 ’ s, when climber Yvon Chouinard began hand-forging pitons and selling them from the trunk of his car in Yosemite Valley.
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File: Black Diamond Carabiners. JPG | An assortment of different Black Diamond carabiners with an ATC and a Figure 8
Influenced at a young age by heavy metal bands such as Iron Maiden, Slayer, Death, Black Sabbath, Celtic Frost, King Diamond, Morbid Angel, and most importantly Judas Priest.
The most recent cultivars released from this program are the prickle-free cultivars ' Black Diamond ', ' Black Pearl ' and ' Nightfall ' as well as the very early ripening ' Obsidian ' and ' Metolius '.
June 2007 saw the publication of The Black Diamond Detective Agency, Campbell's adaptation of an as-yet unmade screenplay by C. Gaby Mitchell.
* Black Diamond is located in Schuyler, Sullivan, Putnam, Adair, Scotland, Knox, Linn, Macon, and Western Shelby, counties.
These included the CSS Nashville, CSS Morgan, CSS Baltic, the Southern Republic, Black Diamond, Admiral, Clipper, Farrand, Marengo and St. Nicholas.
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Sticht plates and the Air Traffic Controller ( ATC ) line of belay devices by Black Diamond Equipment are examples of passive belay devices.
Black Diamond Equipment is a Salt Lake City, Utah-based manufacturer of equipment for climbing, skiing and mountain sports.
Black Diamond was founded on December 1, 1989, when the assets of Chouinard Equipment Ltd. were purchased by a group of former company employees led by current Black Diamond Equipment CEO Peter Metcalf, and a few outside investors.
In 1996, Black Diamond Equipment Europe was established in Reinach, Switzerland, making Black Diamond products widely available throughout Europe.
In 2006, Black Diamond Equipment Asia was established in Zhuhai, China to serve as both a secondary manufacturing facility as well as a global distribution hub.
Black Diamond Equipment also produces skis, ski boots, bindings, poles, gloves, ski packs, avalanche safety gear and climbing skins.
Black Diamond Equipment Asia is a Black Diamond-owned and operated facility located in Zhuhai, China that produces many of the company ’ s other products including cams and ice tools.
Nuts may be generically referred to as wires or stoppers, though " Stopper " is a brand name of a nut made by Black Diamond Equipment.
It came with a " Standard Extension Black Top " and two gas headlights as well as " Full Oil Lamp Equipment.
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Aalen ’ s territory ranges over all lithostratigraphic groups of the south-German Jurassic: Aalen ’ s south and the Flexner massif are on top of the Weißer Jura ( White Jurassic ), the town centre is on the Brauner Jura ( Brown Jurassic ), and a part of Wasseralfingen is on the Schwarzer Jura ( Black Jurassic ).
In particular, the British Museum ’ s collections covering the period AD 300 to 1100 are among the largest and most comprehensive in the world, extending from Spain to the Black Sea and from North Africa to Scandinavia.
The world ’ s first ice-calorimeter, used in the winter of 1782-83, by Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace, to determine the heat evolved in various chemical change s ; calculations which were based on Joseph Black ’ s prior discovery of latent heat.
The first and most famous of the Jirel of Joiry stories is " Black God ’ s Kiss ", which received the cover illustration ( painted by Margaret Brundage ) in the October 1934 Weird Tales.
On 24 September 2008, Film London, the capital ’ s film and media agency launched The New Black, a two year funding and training programme that will expand opportunities for theatrical exhibition of Black film in London.
Fifteen of the UK ’ s leaders of black film exhibition came together from Wales, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Kent, Essex, and the capital to the Film London offices to attend The New Black Training Programme.
In 1972, while Minister for the Interior, he rejected Israel ’ s offer to send an Israeli special forces unit to Germany to deal with the Black September hijacking of the 1972 Summer Olympics.
The group ’ s next release, Apocalypse ' 91 ... The Enemy Strikes Black, continued this trend, with songs like " Can't Truss It ", which addressed the history of slavery and how the black community can fight back against oppression ; " I Don't Wanna be Called Yo Nigga ", a track addresses on how the urban culture uses the word nigga outside of its usual derogatory context.
During the following decades, hundreds of anti-Apartheid actions occurred, including those of the Black Consciousness Movement, students ’ protests, labor strikes, and church group activism etc.
* White Over Black: Discourses of Whiteness in Australian Culture in Borderlands eJournal Focuses on debates about representing Australia ’ s colonial history, specifically in regard to child removal.
The world ’ s first ice-calorimeter, used in the winter of 1782-83, by Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace, to determine the heat evolved in various chemical change s ; calculations which were based on Joseph Black ’ s prior discovery of latent heat.
The civil rights movement, which began with Black movements in the United States as well as Women ’ s movements in Europe and the Americas was adopted by gay and lesbian organizations throughout the West, and yielded the first exploration of homosexuals within the context of the Holocaust.
In his Histoire Naturelle ( 1749 ), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, wrote of the " Black Cougar ": " M. de la Borde, King ’ s physician at Cayenne, informs me, that in the American Continent there are three species of rapacious animals ; that the first is the jaguar, which is called the tiger ; that the second is the couguar, called the red tiger, on account of the uniform redness of his hair ; that the jaguar is of the size of a large bull-dog, and weighs about 200 pounds ; that the cougar is smaller, less dangerous, and not so frequent in the neighbourhood of Cayenne as the jaguar ; and that both these animals take six years in acquiring their full growth.
The world ’ s first ice-calorimeter, used in the winter of 1782-83, by Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace, to determine the heat evolved in various chemical change s ; calculations which were based on Joseph Black ’ s prior discovery of latent heat.
When Gustave Courbet drew a crayon illustration for The Black Arm ( 1856 ), a pantomime by Fernand Desnoyers written for another mime, Paul Legrand ( see next section ), the Pierrot who quakes with fear as a black arm snakes up from the ground before him is clearly a child of the Pierrot in The Ol ’ Clo's Man.
Melkor the Dark: The Noldor no longer call him Melkor ; rather, they call him ‘ Morgoth ’ (‘ Black Enemy ’, or possibly ‘ Dreadful Dark ').
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