* In the Neal Stephenson novel The Diamond Age, ubiquitous molecular nanotechology is described to make use of " rod logic " similar to that imagined by Babbage's design for the Analytical Engine.

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

Stephenson's next solo novel, published in 1995, was The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, which dealt with a future with extensive nanotechnology and dynabooks.

His book The Diamond Age follows a simpler plot but features " neo-Victorian " characters and employs Victorian-era literary conceits.

* The Diamond Age: or A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer ( 1995 ) – Hugo and Locus SF Awards winner, 1996 ; Nebula, Campbell and Clarke Awards nominee, 1996

Merkle appears in the science fiction novel The Diamond Age, involving nanotechnology.

Emerging themes in the 1990s included environmental issues, the implications of the global Internet and the expanding information universe, questions about biotechnology and nanotechnology, as well as a post-Cold War interest in post-scarcity societies ; Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age comprehensively explores these themes.

The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is a postcyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson.

The Diamond Age was first published in 1995 by Bantam Books, as a Bantam Spectra hardcover edition.

The Diamond Age depicts a near-future world revolutionised by advances in nanotechnology, much as Eric Drexler envisioned it in his nonfiction book Engines of Creation ( 1986 ).

Society in The Diamond Age is dominated by a number of phyles, also sometimes called tribes.

Cities in The Diamond Age appear divided into sovereign enclaves affiliated or belonging to different phyles within a single metropolis.

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.

Although The Diamond Age explores the role of technology and personal relationships in child development, its deeper and darker themes also probe the relative values of cultures ( which Stephenson explores in his other novels as well ) and the shortcomings in communication between them.

" Diamond Age " is an extension of labels for archeological time periods that take central technological materials to define an entire era of human history, such as the Stone Age, the Bronze Age or the Iron Age.

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.

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 ".

While The Diamond Age can be viewed primarily as a coming-of-age or Bildungsroman central plot centered on a female character, deeper analysis reveals several interconnected themes.

The Diamond Age includes several themes that encompass connections between individuals and between individuals and social groups.

Rock musician David Bowie also made three popular concept albums ; The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, about the fictional character, Ziggy Stardust and his band ; Aladdin Sane ; and Diamond Dogs.

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

Rubies, emeralds, and the Hope Diamond exhibit red fluorescence under short-wave UV light ; diamonds also emit light under X ray radiation.

* 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 "

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.

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.

Omaha is also home to the Omaha Diamond Spirit, a collegiate summer baseball team that plays in the MINK league.

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.

A likely scenario is that the French Blue or sometimes also known as the Blue Diamond was " swiftly smuggled to London " after being seized in 1792 in Paris.

The Hope Diamond also is resting on a new dark blue neck form, which the Harry Winston firm commissioned from display organization, Pac Team Group.

Some charities and volunteer organizations have also been founded as gifts to, or in honour of, some of Canada's monarchs or members of the Royal Family, such as the Victorian Order of Nurses ( a gift to Queen Victoria for her Diamond Jubilee in 1897 ), the Canadian Cancer Fund ( set up in honour of King George V's Silver Jubilee in 1935 ), and the Queen Elizabeth II Fund to Aid in Research on the Diseases of Children.

Vajrayana ( Devanagari: वज ् रय ा न ; Oriya: ବଜ ୍ ରଯ ା ନ, Tibetan: ར ྡོ་ ར ྗེ་ ཐ ེ ག ་ པ ་, rdo rje theg pa ; Mongolian: Очирт хөлгөн, Ochirt Hölgön, Chinese: 密宗, mì zōng ) is also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Mantrayāna, Secret Mantra, Esoteric Buddhism and the Diamond Vehicle.

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.

Arthur also played a key role in the formation of what later became known as the Ontario Hockey Association ( OHA ), and would go on to be the founder of ice hockey in Great Britain .< ref name =" DimondPrize-11 ">< nowiki > Diamond, Zweig, and Duplacey </ nowiki >, p. 11 </ ref > Arthur and Algernon persuaded their father to donate a trophy to be " an outward and visible sign of the hockey championship ".

The collection also includes the Golden Jubilee Diamond, currently the largest diamond in the world.

Demarest also acted in Diamond Jim ( 1935 ), Easy Living ( 1937 ), The Great McGinty ( 1940 ), Christmas in July ( 1940 ), The Lady Eve ( 1941 ), Sullivan's Travels ( 1941 ), The Palm Beach Story ( 1942 ), The Miracle of Morgan's Creek ( 1944 ), Hail the Conquering Hero ( 1944 ) and The Great Moment ( 1944 )

A. L. Diamond of a 1935 French movie, Fanfare d ' Amour, from a story by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan, which was also remade in 1951 by German director Kurt Hoffmann as Fanfaren der Liebe.

The county was also the site of the 1928 discovery of the 34. 48 carat ( 6. 896 g ) Jones Diamond by Grover C. Jones and his son, William " Punch " Jones.

In addition to playing piano and Hammond organ with the Heartbreakers, Tench is also known as a skilled session musician, having recorded with dozens of notable artists, including Johnny Cash, U2, Elisa, Stevie Nicks, Lucinda Williams, Sam Phillips, You Am I, Susanna Hoffs, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, The Rolling Stones, Don Henley, John Prine, Ringo Starr, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Waylon Jennings, Paul Westerberg, X, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Carlene Carter, The dB's, Alanis Morissette, The Ramones, The Screaming Trees, The Tragically Hip, The Divinyls, The Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, The Cult, The Jayhawks, Dave Rawlings, Fiona Apple, Lone Justice, Sean Watkins, New Found Glory, Tift Merritt, Peter Case, Neil Diamond, Ryan Adams and Powderfinger, Naughty Sweeties City of Glass, as well as many others.

The limited edition also contains a cover of Pink Floyd's " Shine on You Crazy Diamond ".

The Diamond State Base Ball Club also plays at least once per year at Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island and also at nearby Port Penn, Delaware.

Diamond demonstrates both high thermal conductivity and electrically insulating properties and much attention has been put into finding practical applications of this material.