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The BHRA's origin began with the rediscovery of the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel by Bob Diamond in 1980.
File: Black Diamond Carabiners. JPG | An assortment of different Black Diamond carabiners with an ATC and a Figure 8
Diamond is renowned as a material with superlative physical qualities, most of which originate from the strong covalent bonding between its atoms.
Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-platinum in several other countries.
Thus, single-inheritance method implementation does not exhibit the Diamond Problem even with multiple-inheritance of interfaces.
It was there that he discovered the Diamond Sutra, the world's oldest printed text which has a date ( corresponding to AD 868 ), along with 40, 000 other scrolls ( all removed by gradually winning the confidence of the Taoist caretaker ).
Stephenson's next solo novel, published in 1995, was The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, which dealt with a future with extensive nanotechnology and dynabooks.
White then merged REO with Diamond T Trucks in 1967 to form Diamond-Reo Trucks, Inc.
* 1792 – The Hope Diamond is stolen along with other French crown jewels when six men break into the house used to store them.
She has had three albums certified Diamond by the Recording Industry Association of America and is the second best-selling artist in Canada, behind Céline Dion, with three of her studio albums certified double diamond by the Canadian Recording Industry Association.
Other guests they admired ( and in most cases had worked with before ) included Muddy Waters, Dr. John, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood, Paul Butterfield, and Neil Diamond.
Diamond DA20 with Diamond Engines Wankel
The DA36 E-Star, an aircraft designed by Siemens, Diamond Aircraft and EADS, employs a series hybrid powertrain, with a Wankel engine as internal combustion engine.
Diamond dies must be rebored when they have lost their original diameter of hole, but metal dies are brought down to size again by hammering up the hole and then drifting it out to correct diameter with a punch.
In the 1950s, his most important work in television involved writing for Red Buttons, Sid Caesar on Caesar's Hour, in Celeste Holm's Honestly, Celeste !, as well as with writers Mel Tolkin, Michael Stewart, Selma Diamond, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and ( on two Caesar specials ) Woody Allen.
* Diamond Ale, a 4. 1 % abv beer, brewed with Pale Ale and Premium Cara malts, with Sovereign hops and locally-sourced honey, produced to celebrate the 2012 Diamond Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II
Inside the Dome there was a play area named Timekeepers of the Millennium ( featuring the characters Coggsley and Sprinx ), The Millennium Coin Minting Press in association with the Royal Mint, the 1951 Festival of Britain Bus, and the Millennium Star Jewels ( focus of the failed Millennium Diamond heist.
The novella inspired the production of a motion picture of the same title, with a soundtrack by Neil Diamond.
Scientists such as Jared Diamond in The Third Chimpanzee, and Morris Goodman of Wayne State University in Detroit suggest that the bonobo and common chimpanzee are so closely related to humans that their genus name also should be classified with the human genus Homo: Homo paniscus, Homo sylvestris, or Homo arboreus.

Diamond and Toynbee
However, where Toynbee argues that the root cause of collapse is the decay of a society's " creative minority " into " a position of inherited privilege which it has ceased to merit ", Diamond ascribes more weight to conscious minimization of environmental factors.

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* Jose Chavez y Chavez ( played by Lou Diamond Phillips ) did not die during this time ; he lived a long life, dying much later in 1924.
* When Selma Diamond, the first female bailiff, died after two seasons, Florence Halop played a replacement character, only to die one season later.

Diamond and from
A series of team-sponsored fan motorcoach trips from Tucson to Bank One Ballpark were inaugurated for the opening season and are still in operation to this day ( it is now known as the " Diamond Express ").
Having fallen from public notice, the tunnel was rediscovered in 1981 by then 18-year-old Robert " Bob " Diamond, who entered from a manhole he located at Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, crawled a distance of underground through a filled-in section of tunnel less than two feet high, and located the bulkhead wall that sealed off the main portion of the tunnel.
* Some 24, 000 + scrolls, manuscripts, paintings, scriptures, and relics from the Mogao Caves, including the Diamond Sutra-claimed by the People's Republic of China
The Diamond, in tight formation and usually at lower speeds ( 400 mph ), performs maneuvers such as formation loops, barrel rolls, and transitions from one formation to another.
Diamond is among the hardest materials known, while graphite is soft enough to form a streak on paper ( hence its name, from the Greek word " to write ").
Diamond films are being grown on valve rings, cutting tools, and other objects that benefit from diamond's hardness and exceedingly low wear rate.
One of the major sentient species in Terry Pratchett's Discworld universe are the " Earth "- based ( ranging from Detritus to Diamond ) Trolls.
Diamond is less stable than graphite, but the conversion rate from diamond to graphite is negligible at ambient conditions.
* 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
He called the stone the ' Babur's Diamond ' at the time, which was called by other names before he seized it from Ibrahim Lodi.
A fictional western television series, The Adventures of Kit Carson, starring Bill Williams and Don Diamond, ran in syndication from 1951-1955.
* " Madrigal ", a song by U. S. singer Neil Diamond, from the album Tap Root Manuscript
* CMT's tribute to Orbison Contains a music video section that contains the entire " Diamond Career Awards " from 11-18-88, and also several rare videos " Heartbreak Radio " and " Walk On "
The new versions were produced by Simon and Diamond Duggal, brothers from Birmingham, England.
* Two books about the attempted robbery of the De Beers diamonds from the Dome were published in 2004: Diamond Geezers-The Inside Story of the Crime of the Millennium ( ISBN 1843171228 ) written by Kris Hollington, published by Michael O ' Mara Books Ltd, and Dome Raiders-How Scotland Yard Foiled the Greatest Robbery of All Time ( ISBN 1852271949 ) written by Jon Shatford and William Doyle, published by Virgin Books
Meetings range from elite competitions – such as those in the IAAF Diamond League series – to basic all-comers track meets, inter-sports club meetings and schools events, which form the grassroots of track and field.
Three violin concertos from David Diamond show the form in neoclassical style.
* The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond ( 2009 ; screenplay from 1957 )
The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang Dynasty China, 868 A. D. ( British Library )
Second, by concentrating on her children, the queen sought to improve the dissolute image she had acquired from the " Diamond Necklace Affair ", in which she had been accused of participating in a crime to defraud the crown jewelers of the cost of a very expensive diamond necklace.
Mason started his criminal organization in Red Banks and was driven out by regulators, sweeping through western Kentucky and first set up his new operation at Diamond Island, followed by Cave-In-Rock, and later, along the Mississippi River, from Stack Island to Natchez.
Technological visionaries such as Eric Drexler and Ralph Merkle, both of whom receive an honorary mention in The Diamond Age, have argued that if nanotechnology develops the ability to manipulate individual atoms at will, it will become possible to simply assemble diamond structures from carbon atoms, materials also known as diamondoids.
* Stephenson's short story " The Great Simoleon Caper " which refers to both the Metaverse seen in Snow Crash and the First Distributed Republic seen in The Diamond Age ( another short story which fits in the Diamond Age milieu and even shares a character is " Excerpt from the Third and Last Volume of Tribes of the Pacific Coast ").

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