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

* Diamond VIP ( obtained after 28 stays, 60 nights, or 100, 000 base points )

Other key points in early history were various OEM arrangements with companies like Compaq, 3Com, Diamond Multimedia, and the Sabre Network.

However, Diamond points out that complex irrigation projects predated states in Madagascar, Mexico, China and Mesopotamia.

* Diamond ring: 5, 000 points

In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, the Slot Machines feature a bonus round function with a Clefairy which points to which reel to stop first.

Diamond blocks are unbreakable ; when connected in a horizontal or vertical line the player earns bonus points: 10, 000 points if aligned without being against a wall or if only one diamond block is touching a wall, 5, 000 points if all three are against the wall.

Eltham and Diamond Creek railway stations each have two platforms, providing points at which trains can pass.

Another supporter of competitive replacement is Jared Diamond who points out in his book The Third Chimpanzee that the genocidal replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans is similar to modern human patterns of behavior that occur whenever people with advanced technology invade the territory of less advanced people.

All access points are open in winter for backcountry skiing, but only the Diamond Head access road is plowed.

Diamond has served as an advisor to numerous governmental and international organizations at various points in his life, including the State Department, United Nations, World Bank, and U. S. Agency for International Development.

Diamond Ridge also bought Grissom's Busch Series operation, and running a part-time schedule Grissom won twice and finished 26th in points in 1995.

· Cubic-cubic shape balloon, SQUARE OR RECTANGLE balloons with rigging points at the corners, " Diamond series by Airstar ", " Ceilair by Airstar ", useful for cutting the light with reflector panels

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

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.

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.

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.

Diamond describes the small number of domesticated species ( 14 out of 148 " candidates ") as an instance of the Anna Karenina principle: many promising species have just one of several significant difficulties that prevent domestication.

This work was a chapter out of the 1958 Diamond Jubilee for the 13 Towns ( Townships ) that were opened for settlement in 1883.

Fort Ligonier was a logical place for travelers to break their journey, and with such commercial opportunities in mind, a local resident named John Ramsay ( sometimes spelled Ramsey ) laid out the street plan, including the space now known as the Diamond.

Diamond smugglers are working out of Puerto Rico and Moto is sent to investigate and discover their secret lair.

In Anthony Horowitz's 1987 book Public Enemy Number Two, the book's main character Nick Diamond is framed for the theft of the Woburn Carbuncles as part of a plan by two Scotland Yard detectives to imprison him in order to find out the identity of a criminal mastermind known as The Fence — who ironically turns out to be the class teacher who was supervising Diamond and the other children on the school trip to Woburn Abbey.

In 1998, Gerald Blanchard stole the Koechert Diamond Pearl known as the Sisi Star, a 10-pointed star of diamonds fanning out around one enormous pearl from an exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary of her assassination at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna.

The demonstrator aircraft is a Dimona motor glider, built by Diamond Aircraft Industries of Austria, which also carried out structural modifications to the aircraft.

Diamond rejected opportunities to apply for a commission — that is, become an officer — saying " nobody can make a gentleman out of me.

Following the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, Diamond shipped out to Guadalcanal with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine Division, arriving at the beaches August 7, 1942.

Upon his arrival, however, Diamond discovered that the 1st Marine Division had shipped out to Australia, a distance of over.

In a live interview with TV talk show host Larry King, Diamond explained his decision to study medicine by pointing out:

In 1979 Diamond collapsed on stage in San Francisco and was taken to the hospital where he endured a twelve hour operation to remove what turned out to be a tumor on his spine.

Thus he told Bang, "... go with Neil Diamond and I'll figure it out later ".

Diamond walked out on stage to a standing ovation.

Diamond Discs arguably had better audio fidelity, but were more expensive than and incompatible with other brands of records, and ultimately lost out in the marketplace.

Starting near Ala Moana Beach Park across from Ala Moana Center, the course progresses west along the waterfront toward downtown Honolulu, then loops through downtown and bends back east through Waikiki, around Diamond Head, and out toward the eastern suburbs of Honolulu, winding through Hawaii Kai before doubling back toward the finish line at Waikiki's Kapiolani Park.

Clan Sea Fox and Clan Snow Raven had a falling out, and in response Clan Snow Raven created the Diamond Shark, a predator designed solely to hunt and kill the Sea Foxes in Strana Mechty's oceans.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, Led Zeppelin are the fourth-highest-selling music act in the US and one of only three acts to earn four or more Diamond albums.

Left Mazda old L10A Camber axial cooling, middle Audi NSU EA871 axial water cooling only hot bow, right Diamond Engines Wankel radial cooling only in the hot bow

Previously, the dimensions of the French Blue had been known only from two drawings made in 1749 and 1789 ; although the model slightly differs from the drawings in some details, these details are identical to features of the Hope Diamond, allowing CAD technology to digitally reconstruct the French Blue around the recut stone.

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.

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.

Three of the teens from the original cast — Gosselaar, Diamond, and Voorhies — remained on the show, playing the same characters with only minor changes to their backstories.

Hamilton and Jones was located on Diamond Street and for many years was the only rival to the cross-town operation of James Hamilton.

Diamond Lake, WA ( elevation 2, 345 ft .) is about to the southwest, and is also part of the Little Spokane River watershed ( outflow only ) via a creek runoff from the uninhabited far west end of the lake.

The gardens were opened in honour of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and contained a large lake, which covered, and what can only be described as a small early version of a roller coaster, known as a switchback ( an alternative general term for a roller coaster ).

In subsequent films Mr. Moto works alternately for private organizations such as the Diamond Syndicate ( Danger Island ) as well as for world governments ( Mr. Moto's Last Warning and Mr. Moto Takes a Chance )-- but only when it is in Japan's interests.

The resolution called for an international certification system on the export and import of diamonds, legislation in all countries to accept only officially sealed packages of diamonds, for countries to impose criminal charges on anyone trafficking in conflict diamonds, and instituted a ban on any individual found trading in conflict diamonds from the diamond bourses of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses.

Although Diamond is sometimes referred to as " highly decorated ", his only personal decoration was the Secretary of the Navy Commendation Ribbon, which later became the Navy Commendation Medal.

The unintended, but happy, consequence was that Diamond began to gain fame not only as a singer and performer, but also as a songwriter.

With Pyromania and Hysteria both certified Diamond by the RIAA, Def Leppard are one of only five rock bands with two original studio albums selling over 10 million copies each in the US.

Rising Up is a recording by Diamond Head released in the winter of 1992, however, was only released in specialist music stores.

In May 2012, in the lead up to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, a poll of 1, 006 British adults found that 80 % were in favour of the monarchy, with only 13 % in favour of becoming a republic.

A Diamond Jubilee is a celebration held to mark a 75th anniversary, but only the 60th anniversary in the case of a monarch ( i. e. length of time a monarch has reigned ).

The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, celebrated on 2 June 2012, was only the second in the country's history.

Tureck did not play only Bach, but had a wide-ranging repertoire which included works by composers including Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and Frédéric Chopin, as well as more modern composers such as David Diamond, Luigi Dallapiccola, and William Schuman.

Upon the introduction of Blue Amberols in 1913, the M reproducer was supplanted by the Diamond A reproducer which was capable of playing only celluloid cylinders.

The 4-minute only external horn Opera ( later renamed Concert ) of 1911-1912, which shared the same mechanism as the IB and III, was initially fitted with the Model L reproducer ( with sapphire stylus for wax Amberols ), but with the introduction of Blue Amberols, shipped with the Diamond A reproducer.

The former reign lasted only a day as Raven defeated Diamond Dallas Page at Spring Stampede and lost the belt the following night to Bill Goldberg on Monday Nitro.