Like The Black Diamonds, it uses a medieval, Arabian Nights – like setting, and the Arabian Nights, like the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and the works of Edgar Allan Poe, are known to have strongly influenced Smith's early writing, as did William Beckford's Vathek.

Since diamond also consists of carbon arranged in a crystalline lattice ( though of a different configuration ), scientists have nicknamed this star " Lucy " after the Beatles song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

Diamonds are thought to have been first recognized and mined in India, where significant alluvial deposits of the stone could be found many centuries ago along the rivers Penner, Krishna and Godavari.

Diamonds have been treasured as gemstones since their use as religious icons in ancient India.

Diamonds have a standardized description that values them according to their carat weight, color, clarity and cut.

Diamonds are graded using criteria that have become known as the four Cs, namely color, cut, clarity and carat weight.

Most of the decks that have survived use the French Suit: Spades, Hearts, Clubs, and Diamonds.

Rider is one of three women in the Bond canon who have been scarred by rape ( Tiffany Case in Diamonds Are Forever and Pussy Galore in Goldfinger being the others ).

* Lucy, of The Beatles song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds ", is said to have come from Weybridge.

Llylgamyn's rulers have been killed, and the city's only hope is for the recovery of the staff of Gnilda, only obtainable from trading the mystic " Knight of Diamonds " armor from the legendary Knight of Diamonds to fend off the invaders.

It is the smallest town in England to have possessed a league association football team, Rushden & Diamonds which is now owned by Kettering town club.

Rochdale have participated in the Football League playoffs on three occasions: 2002, where they lost 4 – 3 on aggregate to Rushden and Diamonds, 2008, where they went through to Wembley on penalties, 5 – 4 after a 3 – 3 draw aet over 2 legs, with Ben Muirhead netting the crucial penalty for Dale, however at Wembley despite scoring the first Goal Dale suffered a 3 – 2 loss to Stockport.

The Jacks in a French-styled deck have traditionally been associated with such figures as Ogier the Dane ( legendary hero of the chansons de geste ) or Holger Danske ( a knight of Charlemagne ) for the Jack of Spades ; La Hire ( French warrior ) for the Jack of Hearts ; Hector ( mythological hero of the Iliad ) for the Jack of Diamonds ; and Lancelot or Judas Maccabeus for the Jack of Clubs.

His novels, Ashes and Diamonds ( about the immediate post-war situation in Poland ), and Holy Week ( dealing with the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ), have been made into film adaptations by the Oscar-winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda.

Holy Week and Ashes and Diamonds have both been translated into English.

Handsworth has produced some notable popular musical acts: Steel Pulse ( whose first studio album Handsworth Revolution is named after the area ), Joan Armatrading, Pato Banton, Benjamin Zephaniah, Swami, Apache Indian, Ruby Turner and Bhangra group B21 and Jamaican musicians such as Mighty Diamonds, Alton Ellis, Burning Spear and Dennis Brown have performed in Handsworth, rare photographs of these musicians are held in Pogus Caesar's OOM Gallery Archive.

To date, they have been one of the most dominant national netball teams in the world, along with the Australian Diamonds, and have a winning record against most other netball nations.

Other historical rivals have been Cerezo Osaka, Urawa Red Diamonds and Júbilo Iwata.

Historically, Kashiwa's fiercest rivals have been JEF United Ichihara Chiba and Urawa Red Diamonds, both close neighbors.

" Many other pieces of instrumental music have also become identified with the series, such as " The 007 Theme ", " On Her Majesty's Secret Service " theme, and various songs such as Shirley Bassey's " Goldfinger ", " Diamonds Are Forever ", and " Moonraker ", Duran Duran's " A View To A Kill ", Nancy Sinatra's " You Only Live Twice ", Paul McCartney's " Live and Let Die ", Tina Turner's " GoldenEye ", Carly Simon's " Nobody Does it Better ", a-ha's " The Living Daylights ", Sheena Easton's " For Your Eyes Only " and Madonna's " Die Another Day ".

As of 2012, Kanye West holds the artist record for working the most times with Williams, the two have collaborated in 19 music videos beginning in 2005 with the music video for " Diamonds from Sierra Leone ".

Diamonds have been laser-drilled since at least the mid-1980s.

After Diamonds are Forever had been published, Fleming received a letter from a thirty-one-year-old Bond enthusiast and gun expert, Geoffrey Boothroyd, criticising the author's choice of firearm for Bond: his suggestions came too late to be included in From Russia, with Love, but one of Boothroyd's guns – a. 38 Smith & Wesson snub-nosed revolver modified with one third of the trigger guard removed – was used as the model for Chopping's image.

Since its inception, the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australian national netball team ( The Diamonds ) and the New Zealand national netball team ( the Silver Ferns ).

Jaci has covered over 50 magazines as well as been a spokes-model for Pepsi, Target, Doritos, John Freida's Frizz-Ease hair products and Helzberg Diamonds.

* Nina Bara ... Tonga: had been a villain in earlier episodes known as The Lany of Diamonds.

Shatner has defended his " stylings ", refusing to acknowledge it as an experiment that went wrong, and insisting instead that it was an acting performance from the perspective of an LSD user ; the song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds has often been abbreviated to LSD.

Monroe's rendition of the song " Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend " and her pink dress are considered iconic, and the dress has been copied by Madonna, Geri Halliwell, Kylie Minogue, Nicole Kidman, Anna Nicole Smith, Christina Aguilera, and James Franco.

The design was the basis of Airdrieonians ' nickname, The Diamonds, which has also been adopted by Airdrie FC.

* Since a diamond also consists of crystallized carbon, the star V886 Centauri has been nicknamed Lucy after The Beatles's hit Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

Her father, John B. Kelly, Sr., had been controversially excluded from the Diamond Sculls in 1920 because of the regattas rules on amateurism ; her brother, John B. Kelly, Jr. had won the Diamonds Sculls in 1947 and in 1949.

In 2001, the album was remastered and reissued on CD with three additional bonus tracks, two of which (" Julie Don't Live Here " and " When Time Stood Still ") had already been released as B-sides of singles (" Twilight " and " Hold On Tight " respectively ) from the original album, while the other (" The Bouncer ") was originally released as the UK B-side of the 1983 single " Four Little Diamonds " from the follow-up album Secret Messages.

Based on the Mighty Diamonds ' " Pass the Kouchie " ( a song about cannabis ), the title had been subtly altered to feature the patois " dutchie ", referring to a type of pot used for cooking.

After Honolulu, Fleming moved on to Los Angeles, where he visited a number of places he had been before, including the Los Angeles Police Intelligence headquarters, where he again met Captain James Hamilton, much as he had done during his research for Diamonds Are Forever.

Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australian national netball team ( Australian Diamonds ) and the New Zealand national netball team ( New Zealand Silver Ferns ).

Diamonds are brought close to the Earth ′ s surface through deep volcanic eruptions by a magma, which cools into igneous rocks known as kimberlites and lamproites.

He is known especially for a trilogy of war films: A Generation ( 1954 ), Kanał ( 1956 ) and Ashes and Diamonds ( 1958 ).

This soon became a major political scandal known as the Diamonds Affair, which contributed significantly to Giscard d ' Estaing's losing his reelection bid.

Crows Nest is known for its rugged landscape, waterfalls, and a sparkling gorge called Valley of Diamonds.

In North America these are known as Movable-Point Diamonds.

She is best known for her role as Tiffany Case, the Bond girl in Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ).

The nearby stars of the Province of Anacreon are known as " The Diamonds ", with the expanse of the Galaxy described as " The Lens ".

The collapse of " The Diamonds ", as they were known due to their distinctive kits, created a vacancy in the Scottish Football League ( in the Scottish Third Division ).

She is best known for her role as Plenty O ' Toole in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.

The Jack of Diamonds is sometimes known as " laughing boy ".

Shanachie Records is first, foremost, and most famously known as a Reggae label, licensing and releasing music from artists such as Rita Marley, Yabby You, The Mighty Diamonds, Lucky Dube, Max Romeo, and John Brown's Body throughout the years.

Bruce Herbert Glover ( born May 2, 1932 ) is an American character actor perhaps best known for his portrayal of the assassin Mr. Wint in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever ( 1971 ).

Smith is perhaps best known for his movie role as assassin, Mr. Kidd, played alongside Mr. Wint ( Bruce Glover ), in the 1971 James Bond movie, Diamonds Are Forever, starring Sean Connery as 007.

For example, Hearts is usually played with a variation whereby the Jack of Diamonds carries a-10 ( desired, since points are penalty ) point value, in a variant known as " Omnibus hearts ".

Diamonds that rate toward the colorless end of the range are sometimes known as " high-color " diamonds, and those toward the other end, " low-color " diamonds.

Diamonds treated to become colorless are all Type IIa and owe their marring color to structural defects that arose during crystal growth, known as plastic deformations, rather than to interstitial nitrogen impurities as is the case in most diamonds with brown color.

There was another higher award known the Knight's Cross with Gold Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds.

* Blue Diamonds, a Dutch 1960s doo-wop duo best known for their chart-topping single " Ramona "

The Steinmetz Pink was displayed as part of the Smithsonian's " The Splendor of Diamonds " exhibit, alongside the De Beers Millennium Star, the world ’ s second largest ( the Centenary Diamond is the largest ) top colour ( D ) internally and externally flawless pear-shaped diamond at 203. 04 carat ( 40. 608 g ), the Heart of Eternity Diamond, a 27. 64 carat ( 5. 582 g ) heart-cut blue diamond and the Moussaieff Red Diamond, the world's largest known Fancy Red diamond at 5. 11 carats ( 1. 102 g ).

Over the years, the team has also been known at various times as the London Seniors ( 1934 – 1944 ) the London Majors ( 1944 – 1959 ) London Chester Pegg Diamonds ( 1960 – 61 ), the London Majors again ( 1962 ), the London Pontiacs ( 1963 – 1969 ), the London Avcos ( 1970 – 73 ) and the London El-Morocco Majors ( 1974 – 75 ), depending on the team sponsorship of the day.

* The Three Musketeers ( 1973 --- producer / presenter ; also known as The Queen's Diamonds )