The IHC units had flat front fenders instead of fenders with compound curves ; used the International Red Diamond 450 engines instead of the Hercules 160AX engines used by the other manufacturers ; used IHC Model 1856 4-speed transmissions instead of the Spicer 4-speed transmissions used by the other manufacturers ; had IHC Model FOK-1370 front drive axles instead of the Timken front axles used by their competitors ; used IHC Model RHT-1590 axles in the read instead of the Timken axles used by their competitors ; and were constructed with fully welded armor with rounded rear corners instead of the bolted armor with square corners used by the other three manufacturers.

The Council was set up in July 2000 after a joint meeting of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses ( representing all the world's significant diamond trading centres ) and the International Diamond Manufacturers Association ( representing significant manufacturers ).

Inspired by the Opera's innovation, Diamond Match salesman Henry Traute began approaching manufacturers to advertise their products on his company's matches, promoting them as something that would be viewed by their users many times a day.

He was one of the early manufacturers of rubber products, and organized and managed the Diamond Rubber Company up to the time of its acquirement by the B. F. Goodrich Company.

Carnival glass was produced in large quantities in the US by the Fenton, Northwood, Imperial, Millersburg, Westmoreland, Dugan / Diamond, Cambridge, and U. S. Glass companies as well as many smaller manufacturers.

" 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.

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 ".

Diamond is less stable than graphite, but the conversion rate from diamond to graphite is negligible at ambient conditions.

There is a growing body of peer-reviewed theoretical work on synthesizing diamond by mechanically removing / adding hydrogen atoms and depositing carbon atoms Theoretical Analysis of Diamond Mechanosynthesis.

* In The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson diamond can be constructed by simply building it out of carbon atoms.

* 1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.

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.

Pitt was the grandson of Thomas Pitt ( 1653 – 1726 ), the governor of Madras known as " Diamond " Pitt because he had discovered and sold a diamond of extraordinary size to the Duke of Orléans for around £ 135, 000.

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.

Among the finest palaces is Palazzo dei Diamanti ( Diamond Palace ), named after the diamond points into which the façade's stone blocks are cut.

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.

In Edward Zwick's war film Blood Diamond, he co-starred alongside Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou as a diamond smuggler from Rhodesia who is involved in the Sierra Leone Civil War.

The Hope Diamond, also known as " Le bleu de France " or " Le Bijou du Roi ", is a large,, deep-blue diamond, now housed in the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D. C.

Diamonds in general, including the Hope Diamond, are considered to be the hardest natural mineral on the Earth, but because of diamond's crystalline structure, there are weak planes in the bonds which permit jewelers to slice a diamond and, in so doing, to cause it to sparkle by refracting light in different ways.

The Hope Diamond contains trace amount of boron atoms intermixed with the carbon structure, which results in the blue color of the diamond, according to the Smithsonian.

A blue diamond with the same shape, size, and color as the Hope Diamond was recorded by John Francillon in the possession of the London diamond merchant Daniel Eliason in September 1812, the earliest point when the history of the Hope Diamond can be definitively fixed, although a second less definitive report suggests that the Hope Diamond's " authentic history " can only be traced back to 1830.

While the diamond had disappeared for several decades, there were questions whether this recovered diamond in Britain was exactly the same one as had belonged to the French king, but subsequent scientific investigation in 2008 confirmed " beyond reasonable doubt " that the Hope Diamond and that owned by the French king were, in fact, the same gemstone in the sense that the Hope Diamond had been cut from the same material as the French Blue.

Accounts vary about what happened to the diamond during the years 1902-1907 ; one account suggested that it lay in the Frankel safe during these years while the jewelers took it out periodically to show it to wealthy Americans ; a rival account, probably invented to help add " mystery " to the Hope Diamond story, suggested that some persons had bought it but apparently sold it back to Frankel.

In 1908, Frankel sold the diamond for $ 400, 000 to a Salomon or Selim Habib, a wealthy Turkish diamond collector, reportedly in behalf of Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey ; however, on June 24, 1909, the stone was included in an auction of Habib's assets to settle his own debts, and the auction catalog explicitly stated that the Hope Diamond was one of only two gems in the collection which had never been owned by the Sultan.

* Illegal Diamond Buying, the term used at the turn of the 19th-20th century for diamond trading outside the De Beers cartel.

Diamond cutting is the practice of changing a diamond from a rough stone into a faceted gem.

Diamond cutting, as well as overall processing, is concentrated in a few cities around the world: while 80 % of rough diamonds are handled in the Antwerp diamond district in Belgium, more than 50 % of processed diamonds also pass through there.

Diamond impregnated wheels or silicon carbide wheels can be used to grind the rough rock down.

* Diamond Trading Company, the world's largest marketer of rough diamonds and company within the De Beers group

His fourth murder, according to Hill, occurred when DeSimone and another associate named Stanley Diamond got carried away after being asked to " rough up " a witness to a robbery.

Burke later sent DeSimone and Stanley Diamond to the man's house in the boondocks of New Jersey, with instructions to threaten and " rough up " the man to ensure he would cooperate with Burke in the future.

Color grading of diamonds was performed as a step of sorting rough diamonds for sale by the London Diamond Syndicate.

A sightholder is a company on the Diamond Trading Company's ( DTC ) list of authorized bulk purchasers of rough diamonds.

It was named the Centenary Diamond as it was presented in the rough for the Centennial Celebration of De Beers Consolidated Mines on May 11, 1988.

The next month, Trytan was gone, and at No Surrender 2005 Diamond presented David Young, suggesting that, in Young, he had found " a diamond in the rough ".

Young appeared sporadically with TNA for several months, and on July 17 at No Surrender 2005 he reforged his alliance with Simon Diamond, who offered to make him " a diamond in the rough ".

Their name is derived from the expression " a diamond in the rough " ( meaning a valuable find in an unexpected location ), as the members of the stable are wrestlers who Diamond regards as having unlocked potential.

This is where the name of the stable originated, as Diamond hailed David Young as a " diamond in the rough ".

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 renowned as a material with superlative physical qualities, most of which originate from the strong covalent bonding between its atoms.

* 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 )

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.

* 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 ").