The reference work The Bond Files by Andy Lane and Paul Simpson indicates that it was based upon a story Jenkins claimed he and Fleming had worked on around 1957, and that the storyline was set in South Africa and dealt with diamond smugglers and a spy ring and bore some resemblance to Fleming's Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever as well as his non-Bond work, The Diamond Smugglers.

Diamond smugglers Klaus and Claudia Vorstein overhear the conversation and approach the children, telling them that they will provide them with the means for a real race around the world by hot air balloon, with the winner receiving $ 100, 000.

Among the economic development institutions established in East Africa were companies such as the Diamond Jubilee Investment Trust ( now Diamond Trust of Kenya ) and the Jubilee Insurance Company, which are quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and have become major players in national development.

Diamond and graphite are two allotropes of carbon: pure forms of the same element that differ in crystalline structure.

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 ").

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.

While there are no ski slopes within Carson City, the city is located close to Heavenly Mountain Resort, Diamond Peak and Mount Rose skiing areas.

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.

Diamond and carbon in its graphite form are considered to be ceramics.

Modern bottleneck slides are still manufactured by companies such as Dunlop Mfg., Steve Clayton, Inc., Mr. B's Bottleneck Guitar Slides, Bluemoon Bottleneck Company and Diamond Bottlenecks.

* Royal Tongan Marines are Camp Blue Diamond ( Photo )

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.

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.

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

Indeed, just as we named the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Steel Age after the materials that humans could make, we might call the new technological epoch we are entering the Diamond Age ".

Both groups are producers and users of the Diamond Age's nanotechnology, and yet both groups revere tradition as it is expressed through comportment, clothing and other relics of the past.

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.

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.

However, this smaller diamond's present whereabouts are unknown, and the recent CAD reconstruction of the French Blue fits too tightly around the Hope Diamond to allow for the existence of a sister stone of that size.

Diamond cutters are generally not referred to as lapidaries, due to the specialized techniques which are required to work diamond.

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.

There are currently 69 officially designated cities in the UK, of which eleven have been created since 2000 in competitions to celebrate the new millennium and Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee in 2002 and Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

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 '.

Professor Ian Diamond, ESRC Chief Executive, said " These fellowships are designed to support leading social scientists working in the UK.

EMCE Toys is continuing the Mego revival by working with Diamond Select Toys on more Star Trek figures, including Captain Pike and the Salt Vampire, as well as Universal Monsters.

He played his early football for Diamond Creek Football Club in the Heidelberg District Football League as well as working for his father's orchard.

It was announced in January 2012 that Barlow and Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber would be working together to write the official Diamond Jubilee single.

Sources disagree about the date of their first contest ; it may have occurred while Diamond was still working for Barnum or a year or two later.

Other working groups include the Technical Working Group ( or Working Group of Diamond Experts ) which reports on difficulties in implementation and proposed solutions, and the Statistics Working Group, which reports diamond trading data.

The World Diamond Council has representation on the Kimberley Process's working groups and is influential in determining the implementation of the Process.

West Africa, for the Diamond Corporation Limited ; in 1966 transferred to Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company Limited, starting first in Flin Flon, Manitoba, and on to exploration projects in Ontario and Quebec ; joined Mattagami Lake Mines as a Senior Exploration Geologist in 1970 ; in 1972 became Senior Project Geologist in charge of all explorations in western Canada ; opened the Western Exploration Office for Mattagami Lake Mines in Edmonton, 1975 ; became an independent geological consultant in 1976, working briefly in 1977 for Alberta Environment ; in 1978 started consulting in the oil-patch ; sought the Liberal nomination in the federal riding of Elk Island in April, 1993.

There was a special room designed underground in the De Beers Diamond Research Laboratory in Johannesburg, South Africa for the sole purpose of working on the Centenary Diamond with design specifications including strength and stability so as to preclude mechanical vibration and temperature variation to minimise any mitigating factor that might interfere with the cutting of the Centenary Diamond.

Patrick Joseph Michael " Pat " Kenney ( born May 26, 1968 in Wilmington, Delaware ), known also by his ring name, Simon Diamond, is a retired American professional wrestler, currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a road agent.

She became a popular singer working in 1978 with her album Rough Diamond, which became popular not only in the U. S., but across the globe.

Recently Connor has been working with local acts such as the punk band ' The Eff Holes ', and Electro-Pop group ' Crazy Diamond ' featuring Regan and Matt Davis.

After working with Budd Boetticher on The Magnificent Matador ( 1955 ), they would go on to work together several times, including: The Killer Is Loose ( 1956 ), the television show Maverick ( 1957 ), Buchanan Rides Alone ( 1958 ), The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond ( 1960 ), A Time for Dying ( 1969 ), Arruza ( 1972 ), and My Kingdom For ... ( 1985 ).

Adele Diamond has postulated that the core cognitive deficit of those with ADHD-PI ( ADD ) and possibly SCT, is working memory, or, as she coined in her recent paper on the subject, " childhood-onset dysexecutive syndrome ".

After Paul Diamond also left the WWF, the two reunited as Badd Company, working for Eastern Championship Wrestling from late 1993 to early 1994, wrestling against the likes of Bad Breed ( Ian and Axl Rotten ) and The Public Enemy, but never won the tag team titles.

Michael " Mike D " Diamond later said, " When we first started working on Hello Nasty in New York, Awol Smith was around helping us get set up.

Little Fuzzy, Diamond and Starwatcher become the clear leaders of the group in working with humans.

Retreating to his Colorado cabin, Diamond found himself temporarily snowed in, and started to pass the time away by working on new material.

Rubin expressed interest in working with Diamond, and the two got together several times at each other's homes before ever going into the recording studio.

There are two working diamond mines in the area, Ekati Diamond Mine, and Diavik Diamond Mine.