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  Diamonds
Early diamonds in jewelry and crowns were used more as small accents with the focus being on pearls, gold or other gems.
By the 17th century in Europe diamonds were no longer worn only by the king or even exclusively by the aristocracy but were purchased by wealthy members of the merchant class.
But in a lot of cases the flaws in the diamond are so small that they cannot be seen without the aid of a magnifying glass known as the jeweler's loupe.
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  Diamonds Are Forever - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diamonds Are Forever, published in 1956, is the fourth James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming.
When Diamonds Are Forever begins, M instructs Bond to infiltrate a smuggling ring, which is running diamonds from African mines to the United States.
Diamonds Are Forever was published again in 2005 as part of the Dr.
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 All about diamonds   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Diamond is considered the King of Gems; it is referred to by many as the April birthstone, (Some use the White Zircon).
Diamond is formed in the earth's interior and shot to the surface by one of the most powerful forces on earth, the volcano.
The Diamond, the transparent form of the element Carbon, the fundamental element of all life, the fire the beauty, the symbol of purity and strength, it glitters and dazzles.It's the " King of Gems".
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 DIAMONDS
diamonds in jewelry is the most popular of all gemstones.
As a result the price of diamonds in jewelry is pretty well standardized to size and quality of the stone.
When diamonds is cut too deep light leaks out the bottom, brilliance is lost, and the diamonds will appear to be dark.
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 Wired 11.09: The New Diamond Age
We are in Antwerp, Belgium, in Weingarten's marbled and gilded living room on the edge of the city's gem district, the center of the diamond universe.
Nearly 80 percent of the world's rough and polished diamonds move through the hands of Belgian gem traders like Weingarten, a dealer who wears the thick beard and fl suit of the Hasidim.
Diamond microchips, on the other hand, could handle much higher temperatures, allowing them to run at speeds that would liquefy ordinary silicon.
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 Diamonds Are Forever
Diamonds are in fact cheap to produce and would be lower in price but for the global cartel operated by De Beers.
Inside is a cardboard box containing a selection of uncut diamonds worth on average between $2-$5 million, which more or less correspond to the dealer's prior request, but ultimately the choice of diamond supplied in the box is at the discretion of De Beers.
The diamond is the strongest material known and it is therefore fitting that the diamond cartel has been so resilient slightly ironic that the diamond cartel is not only extremely strong but also extremely old.
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 Diamonds Are Forever: Special Edition (1971)
Diamonds Are Forever constitutes maybe half of a good Bond movie, but the rest falls into the overly-comedic traps that would harm the franchise in later years.
Diamonds Are Forever appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.35:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
Diamonds Are Forever isn't top-notch Bond, but it's a largely interesting and decent effort that merits a viewing.
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 The Mysteries Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: )
LOUIS - Proving that diamonds indeed are forever, a widower got a gem of a keepsake made from his late wife's ashes this month: a 0.35-carat, round yellow diamond.
To LifeGem, the synthetic diamonds offer a choice in a funeral industry that for years, by nature, offered limited choices for consumers - bury a body in a graveyard or have the body cremated, with the ashes stored in an urn or scattered in the wind.
According to the Cremation Association of North America, the percentage of the dead that are cremated - nearly 28 percent in 2002 - is estimated to rise to 35 percent in 2010 and 43 percent in 2025.
www.hiddenmysteries.org /weird/news/diamonds.html   (629 words)

  
 Conflict diamonds
In Angola and Sierra Leone, conflict diamonds continue to fund the rebel groups, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), both of which are acting in contravention of the international community's objectives of restoring peace in the two countries.
Conflict diamonds are diamonds that originate from areas controlled by forces or factions opposed to legitimate and internationally recognized governments, and are used to fund military action in opposition to those governments, or in contravention of the decisions of the Security Council.
The international diamond industry is already taking steps to respond, such as the adoption by the World Diamond Congress, Antwerp, 19 July 2000, of a resolution which, if fully implemented, stands to increase the diamond industry's ability to block conflict diamonds from reaching market.
www.un.org /peace/africa/Diamond.html   (1271 words)

  
 Review: Diamonds Are Forever   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Released in 1971, Diamonds Are Forever was Sean Connery's final "official" turn as James Bond (although he eventually starred in Never Say Never Again, 1983's Thunderball remake).
The parts about diamond smuggling and a rich eccentric hiding out in a hotel penthouse are fine, but as soon as the script introduces Blofeld's double and a laser-shooting satellite, things become laughably absurd, even for a Bond movie.
Diamonds Are Forever's hallmark action sequence is an extended car chase that begins with 007 zipping across the Nevada flatlands in a moonbuggy and ends with him careening through the streets of Las Vegas with a fleet of police cars in pursuit.
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 The Straight Dope: Is a diamond's price a true measure of its value?
His central contention is that diamonds have little inherent value; their perennially high price is solely a function of clever promotion and ruthless manipulation of the market.
The value of diamonds varies widely depending on grade and, despite efforts at standardization, is basically arbitrary--experts often disagree sharply on the worth of a particular gem.
Synthetic diamonds have been available since the 1950s and are commonly used in industrial abrasives, but till now have made little headway in the gem market due to prohibitive manufacturing expense.
www.straightdope.com /columns/040903.html   (831 words)

  
 Diamonds Are Forever
Diamonds Are Forever - Bond Smells A Rat
Diamonds Are Forever - Death At The Whyte House
Diamonds Are Forever - Diamonds Are Forever (Instrumental)
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 Diamonds are Forever   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Diamonds, are a form of pure carbon; they are brittle, one of the hardest substances known on this planet and have evoked mystique, awe and envy, since Oriental potentates, such as the Indian Maharajahs collected vast troves of gold and gemstones.
Naturally, diamonds occur either embedded in some form of rock or in the beds of existing or dried-up rivers; these are called alluvial.
The proposal was that Leonard and Freddy would set-up a diamond marketing exchange in London, fed by raw diamonds from Sierra Leone, since native diggers, quite legally, could and did prospect for stones; additionally, the largest proportion of the country’s assets, were un-worked concessions, held by De Beers.
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 Diamonds are forever   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The diamond’s rarity and natural beauty are the qualities that have contributed to making the diamond such a special and magical gift.
Diamonds were formed under immense heat and pressure hundreds of miles below sea level.
Diamonds were formed more than 70 million years ago when diamond-bearing ore was brought to the surface through volcanic eruption.
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 Diamonds are not forever (August 2005) - News - PhysicsWeb
Aggregated diamond nanorods have a modulus of 491 gigapascals (GPa), compared with 442 GPa for conventional diamond.
Diamond derives its hardness from the fact that each carbon atom is connected to four other atoms by strong covalent bonds.
The Bayreuth team measured the properties of the samples with a diamond anvil cell at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility at Grenoble in France.
physicsweb.org /articles/news/9/8/16/1?rss=2.0   (372 words)

  
 Diamonds Are Forever   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Diamonds Are Forever [1971], Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean, Bruce Cabot, Putter Smith, Bruce Glover, Norman Burton, Joseph Fürst, MGM Home Ent.
Another James Bond classic, Diamonds are forever, was the hit film of 1971 and unfortunatley for the business...
Diamonds are Forever is one of the lengthy series of James Bond adventure/spy stories...
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 DVD Review - Diamonds Are Forever   (Site not responding. Last check: )
After watching MGM Home Entertainment’s exhaustively thorough DVD of 1971’s "Diamonds Are Forever," however, I got the impression that for everyone involved, this film marked the only time they tinkered with the Bond mythos.
Marking the return and last "official" appearance of Sean Connery as agent 007, "Diamonds Are Forever" pits Bond against long time nemesis Ernst Stavros Blofeld (Charles Gray, portraying Blofeld as a fussy megalomaniac).
No doubt engineered by Guy Hamilton and cinematographer Ted Moore, "Diamonds Are Forever" shyed away from the day-glo hues of "Goldfinger" and "You Only Live Twice" and the DVD faithfully replicates that "natural comic book" effect.
www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/diamonds_are_forever.shtml   (1176 words)

  
 Making Matter: Diamonds are Forever
¶diamond consists of electrons that are intimately shared between the carbon atoms.
Diamond is important because it is the hardest substance known, and can be used for making sharp cutting tools, such as used in drilling for oil.
Drawn like this, diamond and graphite look very different, and of course so they are.
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 Diamonds are...forever? | MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Diamonds are appealing in the upper-class fashion culture.
Diamonds are a by-product of human suffering, and they sell well anyway because they exist in a market that thrives on the consumer simply not caring.
The taglines selling diamonds thus far have been "A diamond is forever" not "A diamond took forever to be made", and if the cultured diamonds are as good as they appear to be, I don't see why they wouldn't last forever like their natural brethren.
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 Diamonds Are Forever - James Bond 007
Directed by Goldfinger's Guy Hamiton "Diamonds" features a number of fight scenes, including the thrashing of Bond by two acrobatic women, Bambi and Thumper, and a battle in an ascending elevator.
Bond's commandeering of a red Mustang and a "moon buggy" in two separate scenes are merely designed to lay waste to police cars and desert bikes.
Diamonds Are Forever - Pictures - Facts - Cast
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 Diamonds are Forever?
EDWARD EPSTEIN, Author, “The Rise and Fall of Diamonds”: Well, what I learned was that the diamond business wasn’t a business of extracting, as I originally expected, something of enormous value and then simply seeing how much of this object you could get out of the ground and selling it.
The idea that “blood diamonds” were responsible for ferocious civil wars in Africa was too much for altruists and activists in developed nations.
Clinton’s press release made no secret of the liaison with the diamond cartel, noting that at a May conference in South Africa, the U.S., Britain and Belgium, among others, had agreed with De Beers upon the importance of establishing a global certification scheme for diamonds.
cortez.gnn.tv /blogs/5427/Diamonds_are_Forever   (1703 words)

  
 The Bond Film Informant: Diamonds Are Forever   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The novel approach: Diamonds Are Forever establishes a trend that would be followed throughout the seventies by only using minimal amounts of Fleming material.
Diamonds Are Forever features the last proper appearance of Blofeld in the EON series of movies.
Bond's conquests: Diamonds Are Forever is unique since Bond only gets to sleep with one woman during the course of the movie - namely Tiffany Case (although on several occasions).
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 JB07: Diamonds Are Forever   (Site not responding. Last check: )
However, Bond arrives only to discover that there's a pressing case waiting for him: a large amount of diamonds has been stolen from the South African mines and two offbeat assassins are killing everyone in the smuggling ring, one-by-one.
When Bond investigates mysterious activities in the world diamond market, he makes a shocking discovery: that the evil Blofeld is still alive, and has been stockpiling the precious gems to use in his deadly laser satellite capable of destroying massive targets on the planet.
The second time I saw Diamonds Are Forever, it was in 1973 at a drive-in, and I took my little cassette recorder and taped the soundtrack from the car speaker.
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 Diamonds are Forever - 1971
Diamonds are forever picks up where On Her Majesty's Secret Service left off.
Diamonds are Forever's credits and title song are very catchy and well-recieved.
Diamonds are Forever has an aura about it that if simply great.
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 Jamaica Gleaner News - Diamonds are forever - Monday | August 21, 2006
Jamaica Gleaner News - Diamonds are forever - Monday
It was a grand affair when Doris and Eric Frater celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary at their residence on Charlemont Drive on August 4.
Frater to his wife of a diamond ring, as he softly uttered, "Diamonds are forever." He concluded the formalities with a most eloquent vote of thanks.
www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20060821/flair/flair9.html   (225 words)

  
 notcoming.com | Diamonds Are Forever
Diamonds Are Forever, released in 1971, marked Connery’s return to the Bond role after George Lazenby’s much, and wrongly, maligned attempt to fill 007’s shoes.
Bond imitates a diamond smuggler, Peter Franks, in order to figure out who is after such a large quantity of diamonds, why they want them, and why dead bodies are appearing in the diamonds’ wake.
Diamonds Are Forever turned out to be both Connery’s return and his last Bond film (depending on how you qualify Never Say Never Again).
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 DocBug: Diamonds are forever
This month's Wired Magazine cover story, "The New Diamond Age" is quite a read, merging Wired's standard breathless technology-is-changing-everything fare with James Bond-style meetings and secret labs complete with Russian scientists.
The key is that the price of diamonds, and gemstones in general, are governed by the laws of fashion rather than some objective standard.
Apollo Diamond says they'll be opening a webstore to the general public "in 2006" and in the meantime take special orders on a case-by-case basis.
docbug.com /blog/archives/000028.html   (1158 words)

  
 Sean Connery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Connery returned one final official time in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever, quitting the role shortly after release.
The title of the film has long believed to have derived from Connery's comments after the release of Diamonds Are Forever who, after filming it, claimed he would never play James Bond again.
As part of the agreement to appear in Diamonds are Forever, Connery was given carte blanche to produce two films at United Artists but felt that the only film made under this deal, The Offence, was buried by the studio.
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