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Achievement Hunter was an American video gaming division of Rooster Teeth Productions.Founded by Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo on July 6, 2008, the website was originally based on the achievement mechanic in video games but grew to become a core component of Rooster Teeth, hosting a wide variety of videos related to video games.
Diamonds Are Forever is a 1971 spy film and the seventh film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is the sixth and final Eon film to star Sean Connery , who returned to the role as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond , having declined to reprise the role in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).
The production and distribution of diamonds is largely consolidated in the hands of a few key players, and concentrated in traditional diamond trading centers, the most important being Antwerp, where 80% of all rough diamonds, 50% of all cut diamonds and more than 50% of all rough, cut and industrial diamonds combined are handled. [93]
Figure 1 assumes that the "thick part of the girdle" is the same thickness at all 16 "thick parts". It does not consider the effects of indexed upper girdle facets. Figure 2 is adapted from Figure 37 of Marcel Tolkowsky's Diamond Design, [9] which was originally published in 1919. Since 1919, the lower girdle facets have become longer.
Sia Furler, who co-wrote "Diamonds", performed it with a keyboard accompaniment at the Norwegian-American Achievement Ceremony on November 18. [121] On November 15, American singer-songwriter Zola Jesus recorded a cover version of "Diamonds". [122] "Diamonds" was used in the promotional video of Istanbul's bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics. [123]
When Queen Victoria showed the re-cut diamond to the young Maharaja Duleep Singh, the Koh-i-Noor's last non-British owner, he was apparently unable to speak for several minutes afterwards. [ 61 ] The much lighter but more dazzling stone was mounted in a honeysuckle brooch and a circlet worn by the queen. [ 8 ]
The famous Hope Diamond is only 45.5 carats, which is about one-third the mass of the Tiffany Yellow Diamond. [5] The diamond is known to have been worn by only four women during its lifetime. It was worn by Mary Whitehouse at the 1957 Tiffany Ball held in Newport, Rhode Island, mounted for the occasion in a necklace of white diamonds. [5]
The Golden Jubilee Diamond, a 545.67 carat (109.13 g) brown diamond, is the largest cut and faceted diamond in the world. It outweighs the Cullinan I by 15.37 carats (3.07 g). The Golden Jubilee Diamond was discovered in 1985 at the Premier Mine , which is also the origin of the Cullinan diamond (1905) and other notables such as the Taylor ...