His coat trimmed in sable, diamond stars of the Orders of Saints Andrew or George agleam, he was often prone to sit sulkily, eye downcast, in a Scheherazade trance.

In fact, O'Connor was honoured during the ceremony with the presentation of a $2500 diamond stickpin.

He was given to public carousing and to acting the clown on the diamond ; ;

One of the rings was a white gold band with a diamond setting, valued at $900.

I felt myself tremble, thinking of the diamond light of that beauty I had held a few moments before, and I wanted to run down there and halt, if I could, that frenetic pirouette, catch the boy in the moment of his savagery, and save a glimmer, a remnant, of that which I remembered, but I knew it was already too late.

More than 20, 000 people were forced to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2009, an action the DR Congo said was in retaliation for regular expulsion of Congolese diamond miners who were in Angola illegally.

Up until the 18th century, amethyst was included in the cardinal, or most valuable, gemstones ( along with diamond, sapphire, ruby, and emerald ).

As the towns and cities of the Middle Ages began to grow, and the general populace was unable to read, signs that today would say cobbler, miller, tailor or blacksmith would use an image associated with their trade such as a boot, a suit, a hat, a clock, a diamond, a horse shoe, a candle or even a bag of flour.

Soon, the seat tube was added, creating the double-triangle diamond frame of the modern bike.

The central diamond within a walled city with four gates was thought to be a good design for defence.

The constellation was also used on the dark blue, shield-like patch worn by personnel of the U. S. Army's Americal Division, which was organized in the Southern Hemisphere, on the island of New Caledonia, and also the blue diamond of the U. S. 1st Marine Division, which fought on the Southern Hemisphere islands of Guadalcanal and New Britain.

The Board of Trade carat was divisible into four diamond grains, but measurements were typically made in multiples of carat.

In 1772, Antoine Lavoisier used a lens to concentrate the rays of the sun on a diamond in an atmosphere of oxygen, and showed that the only product of the combustion was carbon dioxide, proving that diamond is composed of carbon.

This led to the addition of the number sign (#, sometimes called ' octothorpe ,' ' pound ' or ' diamond ' in this context-' hash ' or ' gate ' in the UK ) and asterisk or " star " (*) keys as well as a group of keys for menu selection: A, B, C and D. In the end, the lettered keys were dropped from most phones, and it was many years before these keys became widely used for vertical service codes such as * 67 in the United States of America and Canada to suppress caller ID.

The Muslim rulers were keen to invade India, which was a rich region, with a flourishing international trade and the only known diamond mines in the world.

In November 2008 the Air Force of Zimbabwe was sent, after some police officers began refusing orders to shoot the illegal miners at Marange diamond fields.

In 2008 some Zimbabwean lawyers and opposition politicians from Mutare claimed that Shiri was the prime mover behind the military assaults on illegal diggers in the diamond mines in the east of Zimbabwe.

Robinson was also known for his pursuits outside the baseball diamond.

The diamond was traditionally known as Syamantaka-mani and later Madnayak or the " King of Jewels ", before being renamed " Kuh-e nur " in the 18th century by Nader Shah and Ahmad Shah Durrani of Khorasan after their conquest of India.

The unprepared army of Kakatiya was defeated this time and the diamond was seized by the champion army of Delhi Sultanate.

This diamond was with the Kachhwaha rulers of Gwalior and then inherited by the Tomara line.

His acquisition of the diamond, amongst many other things, was criticized even by some of his contemporaries in Britain.

He also introduced the possibility of allotropy in chemical elements when he discovered that diamond is a crystalline form of carbon.

The known inorganic chemistry of the allotropes of carbon ( diamond, graphite, and the fullerenes ) blossomed with the discovery of buckminsterfullerene in 1985, as additional fullerenes and their various derivatives were discovered.

* 1955 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the USSR, is discovered.

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.

The Marange diamond fields, discovered in 2006 are thought to be among the richest in the world.

* South African diamond fields are discovered.

* June 13 – Mir Mine, the first diamond mine in the Soviet Union, is discovered.

In 1866 Erasmus Jacobs discovered diamonds at Kimberley, prompting a diamond rush and a massive influx of foreigners to the borders of the Orange Free State.

The first known diamond mine was in the Golconda region of India, although by 1725 diamonds had been discovered in Brazil.

The fairly simple agricultural dynamic was upset in 1870, when vast diamond fields were discovered in Griqualand West, around modern-day Kimberley.

Valuable diamond mines were also discovered within the Free State, of which the one at Jagersfontein is the richest.

Historically, the river played an important role in the South African diamond rush, with the first diamonds in the country being discovered in alluvial deposits on the Orange.

In 1867, the first diamond discovered in South Africa, the Eureka Diamond, was found near Hopetown on the Orange River.

In the 1880s gold and diamond deposits were discovered in British Guiana, but they did not produce significant revenue.

Dutoitspan and Bultfontein diamond mines were discovered in 1870, and in 1871 the even richer mines of Kimberley and De Beers were discovered.

In another instant the soldiers discovered that he was chewing the diamond earrings from the ears of the dead woman ...

After fighting the murdering mobsters, they discovered that the top mobster, Mr. Big, had kidnapped Ryo's sister to exchange her against the diamond, which he believes to be in the possession of the protagonists.

He had set out to develop a polymer matrix to mirror a diamond structure and discovered a resole ( phenolic ) resin that would, with special preparation, set without a catalyst.

They were overwhelmed by the beauty and cultural richness of the network of Xingu tribes which they discovered, and when the expedition disbanded they remained in the jungle to protect the Xinguanos from the land speculators, state senators, diamond prospectors, skin hunters, and rubber gatherers who had followed in their wake.

The first diamond discovered in South Africa, the Eureka Diamond, was found at Hopetown.

Valuable diamond mines were also discovered within the Orange Free State, of which the one at Jagersfontein is the richest.

* Herkimer diamond, a generic name for double-terminated quartz crystals first discovered in Herkimer County, New York

Although the asbestos mine is the biggest producer of the mineral in Zvishavane, platinum, gold, beryl, chromite iron ore at Buchwa and recently discovered huge deposits of diamond at Murowa are also mined in the area.