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“Diamonds are a girl’s best friend.” “Diamonds are forever.” “Diamonds in the rough.” What-ever you say about these precious gems, you can’t deny they are desirable! Tidbits has all the dirt on diamonds this week – read along and see!• The word “diamond” has its origins in the

Greek language from the word Adamas, which translates “unconquerable and inde-structible.” The Greeks believed them to be splinters of stars that had fallen to Earth and believed diamonds promoted strength, invin-cibility, and courage to those who wore them.

• Ranked as the hardest natural substance on Earth, diamonds are composed entirely of carbon, the only gemstones composed of just one element. They are formed at high temper-atures under intense pressure 87 to 120 miles (140 to 190 km) within the Earth’s mantle over billions of years. A volcanic eruption can often bring diamonds to the Earth’s surface. Although there are synthetic “diamonds,” there is no man-made way to reproduce the tremendous heat and pressure found deep within the Earth that creates diamonds. Mil-lionaire publisher Malcolm Forbes had this to say about diamonds – “Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” turn the page for more!

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• Although diamonds are 58 times harder than the next hardest mineral on Earth, they are quite brittle and can be shattered by the single blow of a hammer. And if a diamond is placed in an oven at a temperature of 1405° F (763° C), it will disappear without leaving so much as an ash behind.

• About 250 tons of earth must be mined to produce a single one-carat diamond. Over 130,000,000 carats weighing 57,000 lbs. (26,000 kg) of diamonds are mined every year – a value of about $9 billion.

• Of all the diamonds to be found on Earth, only 20% of them are suitable for jewelry. The ma-jority of diamonds are used for industrial drill-ing, grinding, cutting, and polishing tools. Dia-monds are embedded into drill bits for drilling oil and gas wells through thousands of feet of rock.

•Diamondswerefirst discovered in India, butmost diamond deposits are found in Africa and Russia.Therearesignificantdeposits inBra-zil, Australia, and Canada, and in a few U.S. states, Arkansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. There’s only one mine in the world where you can be a miner, located at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas, a 37.5-acre ancient volcanic crater. For $7, you can mine alldayandkeepanythingyoufind. In1990,one lucky park visitor found a diamond weigh-ing 3.03 carats in the rough. After cutting, the gem was a perfect 1.09 carat. Don’t get your hopes up, however – gemologists estimate this was a one in a billion occurrence.

• Although less than 1% of diamonds are mined in the U.S., America buys more than half of the world’s total production of quality gems.

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• A diamond’s value is based on the “Four C’s” – carat weight, clarity, color, and cut. A diamond’s carat is not the same as that of gold. Pure gold is considered 24 carats, while one diamond carat is 0.007055 oz. (200 mg). Not all diamonds are clear. The presence of impurities causes the gems to vary in color, as can heat or irradiation. Nitrogen in a stone produces a yellow color, while irradiation might produce green. Blue,red,brown,pink,orange,andevenblackmightresult from the presence of both irradiation and heat. Clear diamonds are the highest grade and value.

• Diamonds lose about 50% of their original weight during the cutting and polishing process, changing a rough stone into a faceted gem. One diamond weigh-ing two carats is worth double that of two one-carat diamonds. About 75% of all diamonds sold world-wide are round cut. Other popular cuts include the football-shaped marquise, the pear cut (which are rounded on one end with a tapering point on the other), and the emerald cut, a rectangular shape with cropped corners.

• Although blue, green, and pink diamonds are ex-tremely rare, they are not the rarest gems. That honor

belongs to the pure red ruby. Diamonds them-selves aren’t actually rare at all, with thousands mined every year.

• The world’s largest diamond was found in South Africa in 1905. Dubbed the Cullinan, it weighed 3106.75 carats uncut, three times the size of the next largest diamond, the Excelsior, also found in South Africa. The Cullinan was cut into the 530-carat Great Star of Africa and the 317-carat Lesser Star of Africa, along with 104 other dia-mondsofflawless color andclarity.Today theyareallpartoftheBritishcrownjewels.

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• It’sbecometraditionaltopresentone’sintend-ed with a diamond when proposing marriage. This dates back to 1477 when Archduke Maxi-millian of Austria gifted Mary of Burgundywith a diamond upon their engagement. It’salso customary to wear engagement and wed-dingringsonthethirdfingerofthelefthand.This is because the ancient Egyptians believed thatparticularfinger’sveinranstraight to theheart.

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We know her as a leading authority on love, marriage, and child rearing. Read along and learnofDr.JoyceBrothers’journeytofame.• JoyceDianeBauerdidn’tsetouttobecomeacelebrity.Borntoattorneyparentswhohadalaw practice together, Joyce attended school inQueens,NewYork. Itwason toCornellUniversity for her undergraduate work fol-lowed by a Ph.D in psychology from Colum-bia University, writing her dissertation on anxiety avoidance and escape behavior.

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• A syndicated newspaper column in 350 news-papers followed, and in 1963, Good Housekeep-ing magazine began running a monthly column, a feature that continued for over four decades.

• Best-selling books were next on her list ofachievements with How to Get Whatever You Want Out of Life, What Every Woman Should Know About Men, and What Every Woman Ought to Know About Love and Marriage.

• In1989,Joycewasfacedwithanissueofherown she had to deal with. Her husband of 40 years died of cancer and she was overcome with grief, even to the point of suicidal thoughts. The good that came out of her experience was the 1992 book Widowed, the story of the journey through her despair, and a guide for others cop-ing with the same feelings of loss.

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• You may not realize it, but you’ve probably seen pic-tures of the French village of Mont-St.-Michel. It’s apicturesque place, a tiny islet in the English Chan-nel with an 8th-century abbey at the top of a high hill, surrounded by stone houses and cobbled streets. It wasn’t always an islet,though; the hill on which the abbey sits was once surrounded by an oak for-est, and the shore was miles away. That all changed in the year 725, though, when an earthquake struck the re-gion. A tidal wave washed over the forest, leaving a vast tidal plain in its wake. Ever since, twice a day, 40-foot tides completely sur-round Mont-St.-Michel. * * *Thought for the Day: “The fundamental cause of trou-ble in this world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” --BertrandRussell

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• As French settlers made their way to North America in the 1500s, they brought their per-sonal book collections with them. The firstnon-personal library was established in Quebec City in 1635 at the Jesuit College. Three years later, clergyman John Harvard bequeathed his 400-volume library and half of his estate to the College at New Towne. The college was renamed Harvard College in his honor, and the library’s meager beginnings have grown into the largest academic library and third largest library overall in the United States, with close to 17 million volumes.

• Inthe17thand18thcenturies,asthequantityof books increased with the advent of printing, there was a considerable increase in the inter-estoflibraries.In1731,BenjaminFranklinin-troduced the idea of a “subscription library,” one that shared books among members of a lit-erary society. People could join by purchasing “stock” in the organization, and books were lent only to members.

• TheBodleianLibrary,themainresearchcenterfor the University of Oxford, was established in1602.By1914,thetotalnumberofbooksinits collections had already passed the one mil-lion mark.

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League Baseball career. Twenty years later, Aaron became base-ball’s new home-run king when he broke Babe Ruth’s long-standing record of 714 career homers.

• On April 27, 1963, Margaret Annemarie Battavio’s very first single, “I Will Follow Him,” reaches No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts. At age 15, the singer better known as Little Peggy March became the youngest female performer ever to top the Billboard Hot 100.

• On April 22, 1970, Earth Day, an event to increase public awareness of the world’s environmental prob-lems, is celebrated in the United States for the first time. Millions of Americans participated in rallies, marches and educational programs.

• On April 25, 1983, the Soviet Union releases a letter that Rus-sian leader Yuri Andropov wrote to Samantha Smith, an American fifth-grader from Manchester, Maine, inviting her to visit his country. An-dropov’s letter came in response to a note Smith had sent him in De-cember 1982, asking if the Soviets were planning to start a nuclear war.

• On April 28, 1789, three weeks into a journey from Tahiti to the West Indies, the HMS Bounty is seized in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the master’s mate. Captain William Bligh and 18 of his loyal support-ers were set adrift in a small, open boat. Bligh and his men reached Timor in the East Indies in June, af-ter a voyage of about 3,600 miles.

• On April 24, 1800, President John Adams approves legislation to ap-propriate $5,000 to establish the Library of Congress. The first library catalog, dated 1802, listed 964 vol-umes and nine maps. Twelve years later, the British army invaded the city of Washington and burned the Capitol, including the then 3,000-volume Library of Congress.

• On April 26, 1937, during the Span-ish Civil War, the German military tests its powerful new air force -- the Luftwaffe -- on the Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain. One-third of Guernica’s 5,000 inhabitants were killed or wounded, and fires en-gulfed the city and burned for days.

• On April 23, 1954, Hank Aaron hits the first home run of his Major

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• In short order, Deere gave up his blacksmith shop and focused on making plows. The company grew steadily and added many em-ployees. In the late 1840s, John relocated the entire operation to Moline, Illinois. Ashamed of his own lack of education, John sent his children to the state’s finest schools. One of his proudest days occurred when son Charles earned the equivalent of an MBA from Bell’s Commercial College in Chicago.

• With his son Charles managing the company, John found time to pursue philanthropic in-terests. He co-founded both the First Nation-al Bank and the First Congregational Church. He was elected the mayor of Moline in 1873, where one of his first actions – the replace-ment of the city’s open drains with a sewer pipe system – saved countless lives by reduc-ing the spread of disease.

• The original John Deere logo, registered in 1876, depicted a deer that was native to Afri-ca. Thirty-six years later, in 1912, it was re-placed with the image of a North American white-tailed deer. In the decades that fol-lowed, the now-familiar “outline” logo took over as the symbol of the John Deere brand.

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•America’s first actual public librarywas theBostonPublicLibrarywhichopeneditsdoorsin 1854. Today it’s the second largest library in the U.S., second only to the U.S. Library of Congress. Established in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation’s largest library. Originally housed in the Capitol building, its 30,000 volumes were completely destroyed inAugust, 1814whenBritish troops set fireto the Capitol during the War of 1812. For-mer president Thomas Jefferson immediately offered his personal library of 6,487 books (which he had spent 50 years collecting) for sale as a replacement, and Congress appropri-ated $23,950 for the purchase.

• Educator and Columbia University librarian Melvil Dewey copyrighted his decimal clas-sificationsystemforbooksin1876,asystemstill used by most libraries. Each category, for example “Philosophy and Psychology,” is as-signed a number, which is then divided into subcategories in increments of 10.

• Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie gave millions of dollars to fund more than 2,500 libraries in 47. U.S. states, 7 Canadian provinces, the U.K.,Ireland,Australia,NewZealand,andtheWest Indies.Carnegie required that the localcommunities provide the land and a budget for operation. At the time of his death, Carnegie had already donated $351 million of his for-tune – that’s $4.8 billion in today’s money.

• There are close to 122,000 public and academ-ic libraries in America, with about 8% of that number public libraries. Nearly 170 million Americans are registered borrowers, and they make about 1.6 billion trips to the library each year.

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