By DerekDashwood on February 19, 2009
Before ever considering an airplane, Orville (1871-1948) and Wilbur (1867-1912)Wright had an active and thriving bicycle manufacturing business in Dayton, Ohio. They were fascinated in watching birds, in particular gulls sweeping in the breezes. These two men revolutionized transit, and came along at the same time as the automobile was making it easier for people [...]
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By DerekDashwood on February 19, 2009
Alexander Graham Bell was born Mar 3, 1847, and even as a youth showed an inventive mind. Om ome occasio, he and other boys were given the task of husking wheat out of the husk or ear. He took his share of the husks home and quickly took the husks off using a nail brush. [...]
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By DerekDashwood on December 3, 2008
New tower building destined to have small shop people nearby as calm zones. So Chinese antiques shop keepers would gape in awe from their small sales stall in small enclaves left in areas of Shanghai. They have found this allows the resident or tourist to have a sense of the flavor of what Shanghai was [...]
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By DerekDashwood on October 22, 2008
You will learn to love your diamond, or diamonds, as you do your personal human lover. You will notice some particular characteristics about this rare gem, see perhaps an obvious flaw or two, but on the whole you wish to study this creation of God and divinity some more. In a diamond or a person [...]
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By DerekDashwood on October 15, 2008
The story of diamonds has involved vast corporations, but also involved were renegade personalities who stuck their necks out, and diamond mining around the world has been no exception. And if that is how they make things work, then it is natural to continue as long as that works. It seems one of those obvious [...]
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By DerekDashwood on October 13, 2008
In general there are Six Steps involved in the process of examining a diamond. The first is that when ever possible, examine the stone unmounted. We owe gratitiude to many sources in learning these processes, particularly Jewelry & Gems The Buying Guide by Matlins and Bonnano. We lear the diamond can be examined more completely [...]
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By DerekDashwood on September 3, 2008
We search for diamonds always, and still we crave for more. So what is it about a diamond that causes us to want it so. It is our eternal search for perfection, as sparkling diamonds are surely gentle God’s most pristine perfection. As these shafts of carbon that somehow come from the boiling inner hell [...]
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By DerekDashwood on September 3, 2008
How are you going to keep them down on the yhurt, after they’ve seen Beijing? So a billion people watched these most glorious ever Olympics – no need to ponder Chinese antiques or any old buildings. Now that the games are over life goes back to the daily routine as things are evolving to be. [...]
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By DerekDashwood on September 3, 2008
One of the defining elemental life forces we find are how we need and respond to inert objects enough to give them personalities. Take a diamonds and gem stones shop mind set if you please. The harvesting of richest essential finds such as new diamond in the searing desert of Australia and the icy polar [...]
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By DerekDashwood on September 2, 2008
To be a part of the gloriously staged and artfully created Beijing Olympics as pure genius. We are the world should and did applaud and allow ourselves to feel we really are all of the great famiy of humanity. Lest we forget. It is glorious to get rich, and China is becoming rich by making [...]
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