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The following is a list of countries and territories by diamond exports. Data is for 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2023 in billions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity and the International Trade Centre. Currently the countries exporting over one billion dollars in 2023 are listed:
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The staff belonged originally to the Japanese mountain god Kōya-no-Myōjin. It is the equivalent of the Sanskrit Vajra, the indestructible lightning-diamond pounder of the king of the gods/rain-god Indra. There the staff represents the three flames of the sacrificial fire, part of the image of the vajra wheel. (Japanese mythology)
Bond follows the diamonds to a pick-up by Bert Saxby, Whyte's head of security, and then onto a research laboratory owned by Whyte, where he finds that a satellite is being built by a laser refraction specialist, Professor Dr. Metz. Suspecting Whyte, Bond tries to confront him, but instead meets Blofeld, who captures the agent and explains to ...
One of the most impressive Mughal cannons is known as the Zafarbaksh, which is a very rare composite cannon, that required skills in both wrought-iron forge welding and bronze-casting technologies and the in-depth knowledge of the qualities of both metals. [141] The Ibrahim Rauza was a famed cannon, which was well known for its multi-barrels. [142]
After serving a fifteen year prison sentence, an unnamed criminal (Antony Starr) flees New York City when he is attacked by a group of gangsters.He heads to the small town of Banshee, Pennsylvania in search of his ex-lover and former accomplice Anastasia (Ivana Miličević), who is living under the name Carrie Hopewell with her new husband Gordon (Rus Blackwell) and their two children Deva ...
Abbreviations Full form Abbreviations Full form AC Apple canker: AM Award of Merit AS Apple scab: AGM RHS Award of Garden Merit: C, VitC Vitamin C mg/100g BB Biennial bearing
The female inflorescence, some way down the stem from the tassel, is first seen as a silk, a bundle of soft tubular hairs, one for the carpel in each female flower, which develops into a kernel (often called a seed. Botanically, as in all grasses, it is a fruit, fused with the seed coat to form a caryopsis [33]) when it is pollinated. [31]