Diamond has remarkable optical characteristics.

Diamond also has relatively high optical dispersion ( ability to disperse light of different colors ), which results in its characteristic luster.

Jared Diamond has expressed similar concerns.

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 ).

Diamond, iron ore and gold have also been found in the past, however a lack of investment and development policy has seen the region ’ s potential falter.

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.

Unlike Lord Snowdon and Captain Phillips, Sarah has never remarried and still attends some functions with her daughters, such as the investiture of The Duke of York into the Royal Victorian Order, on which occasions she is afforded the courtesy of treatment as a member of the Royal Family, although the Lord Chamberlain's Diamond Jubilee Guidelines mention the Duchess specifically as being a member of the Royal Family in her own right.

The Diamond Age is characterized by two intersecting, almost equally developed story lines: Nell's education through her independent work with the Primer, and the social downfall of engineer and designer of the Primer, John Percival Hackworth, who has made an illegal copy of the Primer for his own young daughter, Fiona.

Since the 2000s, DiCaprio has been nominated for awards for his work in such films as Catch Me If You Can ( 2002 ), Gangs of New York ( 2002 ), The Aviator ( 2004 ), Blood Diamond ( 2006 ), The Departed ( 2006 ), and Revolutionary Road ( 2008 ).

The geographer Jared Diamond has calculated that if the application of jus soli since 1850 were abolished, 60 % of Americans and 80 % of Argentinians would lose their citizenship, and 25 % of British and French.

The Little Desert has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) because it supports populations of Malleefowl and Diamond Firetails.

Selling over 30 million records, Avsenik has earned thirty-one Gold, two Diamond, and one Platinum record.

This assessment of the danger posed by cassowaries has been repeated in print by authors including Gregory S. Paul ( 1988 ) and Jared Diamond ( 1997 ).

This group of authors has applied the term to a broader spectrum of people than have sociologists such as Diamond.

" Sara Diamond wrote that " iberals ' writing about the Christian Right's take-over plans has generally taken the form of conspiracy theory ", and argued that instead one should " analyze the subtle ways " that ideas like Dominionism " take hold within movements and why.

Canadian Museum of Civilization anthropologist Diamond Jenness has compared the tribe to Vikings.

It has been proposed, for instance by J. Diamond in his book where he refers to man as The Third Chimpanzee, that P. troglodytes and P. paniscus belong with H. sapiens in the genus Homo, rather than in Pan.

The Trust has launched a Jubilee Woods project, which aims to plant 6 million trees and create 60 commemorative ' Diamond ' woods across the UK as part of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012.

Its most thriving period was in 1851 and, through its lumber, lime production, and agriculture, Diamond Springs has retained some of its early importance.

Federally, Diamond Springs is located in California's 4th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of R + 11 and is represented by Republican John Doolittle.

San Jacinto College ( the Cougars ( has a sports stadium for college football and a gymnasium for college basketball, along with a ball park for a collegiate baseball team the San Jacinto Valley Hermits in the 2009 season, the team was in Beaumont, California in 2010 and in 2011, was replaced by the Diamond Valley Sabers in nearby Hemet.

Cultivation of almonds has historically been a significant activity in the vicinity, including a major Blue Diamond processing facility nearby.

Carterville has been a long-time member of the Black Diamond Conference.

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.

Diamond production continues to be a very important part of Namibia's economy.

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 '.

* Diamond anvil cell, an instrument used for producing very high pressures

The routes on the right side of the Diamond are often aid climbed, and may require spending the night on the wall ; the rock here can be very wet.

This album was released to a very positive reception, and featured notable songs " The Kiss of Judas ", " Black Diamond " and the title track " Visions ( Southern Cross )", a 10-minute epic that was their longest song at the time.

Diamond abrasives bonded to metal or resin are typically used for cutting laps, and a wide variety of materials are used for polishing laps in conjunction with either very fine diamond powder or oxide-based polishes.

The Diamond Realm is a very popular subject for mandalas, and along with the Womb Realm ( Garbhakosa ) Mandala forms the Mandala of the Two Realms.

The Womb Realm is a very popular subject for mandalas, and along with the Diamond Realm ( vajradhatu ) Mandala forms the Mandala of the Two Realms.

First, they were cut to “ ideal proportions ”, very close to those summarized by Marcel Tolkowsky in his 1919 book, Diamond Design.

* Diamond is the ultimate abrasive, but graphite is soft and is a very good lubricant.

In Southeast Asia, the black ones are nicknamed " Black Pearl " or " Black Diamond ", while the very pale greenish-white ones, called " Pearl ", are among the highest priced ones in fruit markets.

Diamond detectors have many similarities with silicon detectors, but are expected to offer significant advantages, in particular a high radiation hardness and very low drift currents.

Ross Douthat of the New York Times noted that " many of the people that writers like Diamond and others describe as ' dominionists ' would disavow the label, many definitions of dominionism conflate several very different Christian political theologies, and there ’ s a lively debate about whether the term is even useful at all.

On 18 October 1854 at Sebastopol, Crimea, Midshipman Daniel was one of the volunteers from HMS Diamond, who, under the command of the captain ( William Peel ) brought in powder to the battery from a wagon under very heavy fire, a shot having disabled the horses.

King Diamond already had a very theatrical stage act, for which he later got fame in Mercyful Fate.

Diamond rigs need to drill slowly to lengthen the life of drill bits and rods, which are very expensive.

Some scholars, namely Jared Diamond, believe that while the Spanish conquest was undoubtedly the proximate cause of the collapse of the Inca Empire, it may very well have been past its peak and in the process of decline.

In 1961, she won the very first Diamond ' D ' Championships for team Saskatchewan as the third for Joyce McKee.

They were the sons of Robert Carson, an American who was one of the very few survivors of an Indian attack on a wagon train on the Oregon Trail and who went on to found one of the early ranches at Pavilion and whose holdings became part of the Diamond S Ranch.

Colour is very common in Asian woodblock printing on paper ; in China the first known example is a Diamond sutra of 1341, printed in black and red at the Zifu Temple in modern day Hubei province.

Diamond mandrels are very similar to their counterpart, a diamond wheel.

Nearby is another kimberlite mine owned by Lucara Diamond, thought to have very large reserves of diamonds.