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One day, Ranjit Singh asked the diamond's former owners – Shuja and his wife Wafa Begum – to estimate its value. Wafa Begum replied that if a strong man threw a stone in four cardinal directions and vertically, Koh-i-Noor would be worth more than the gold and precious stones filled in the space.
Mining in South Africa was once the main driving force [1] behind the history and development of Africa's most advanced and richest economy. [2] Large-scale and profitable mining started with the discovery of a diamond on the banks of the Orange River in 1867 by Erasmus Jacobs and the subsequent discovery of the Kimberley pipes a few years later.
The city is an important manufacturing centre in South Africa, contributing 32% of manufacturing production. [42] The city has been described as "the workshop of the country". [43] It contributes 11% to the GVA of South Africa. [44] Ekurhuleni has held the "Manufacturing Indaba" Conference every year since 2014.
Theoretically, if one song were streamed 1.5 billion times on YouTube, the single would receive Diamond and the whole album could be certified Platinum, [7] thus creating a combined total of 11 million certified units without any sales.
The name "Google" originated from a misspelling of "googol", [94] [95] which refers to the number represented by a 1 followed by one-hundred zeros. Page and Brin write in their first paper on PageRank : [ 20 ] "We chose our systems name, Google, because it is a common spelling of googol, or 10 100 and fits well with our goal of building very ...
Some believe that the name "Palembang" is derived from the word limbang in Malay. By adding the prefix pe-which indicates a place or situation, the city's name means "a place to pan gold and diamond ores". It is said that during antiquity, the ruler ordered gold and diamond miners to pan their ores in the city for security and surveillance reasons.
A 2013 report by Dublin City Council on traffic flows crossing the canals in and out of the city found that just under 10% of all traffic was made up of cyclists, representing an increase of 14.1% over 2012 and an 87.2% increase over 2006 levels.
This list of countries by life expectancy provides a comprehensive list of countries alongside their respective life expectancy figures. The data is differentiated by sex, presenting life expectancies for males, females, and a combined average.