Archive for February, 2008
Helsinki Watch was a private American NGO devoted to monitoring Helsinki implementation. It was created in 1978 to monitor compliance to the Helsinki Final Act (signed 1975). The group focused on the human rights and human contacts portions of the Helsinki Agreement.
The United States-based Helsinki Watch group was inspired by Eastern European efforts such […]
Welcome Home is a single by the heavy metal band King Diamond. This single is taken from the album Them. The song features prominently in the 2006 movie Clerks II, serving as the de facto theme song for Jay and Silent Bob on a number of occasions.
Track listing
“Welcome Home” – 4:36
John Diamond may refer to:
John Diamond (dancer) (1823–1857), Irish-American dancer
John Diamond (journalist) (1953–2001), British broadcaster and journalist
John Diamond, Baron Diamond (1907–2004), British Labour politician
John Diamond, 1980 children’s novel by author Leon Garfield
John Diamond (American journalist)
Tidal diamonds are symbols on British admiralty charts that indicate the direction and speed of tidal streams.
The symbols consist of a letter of the Roman alphabet in a rhombus, printed in purple ink. On any particular chart each tidal diamond will have a unique letter starting from “A” and continuing alphabetically.
Somewhere on the chart, generally […]
Pearl of Great Price may refer to:
Parable of the Pearl, a parable told by Jesus in explaining the value of the Kingdom of Heaven
Pearl (poem), a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century
Pearl of Great Price (Latter Day Saints), part of the standard works of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day […]
The Letlhakane diamond mine is a diamond mine located in Botswana about 190 kilometers (120 miles) west of the city of Francistown. Letlhakane, meaning “little reeds”, is owned by Debswana, a partnership between the De Beers company and the government of Botswana. It is the second oldest of four mines operated by the […]
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