Archive for March, 2008



Black Watch (wristwatch)

The Black Watch is an electronic wristwatch launched in September 1975 by Sinclair Radionics, costing £17.95 in kit form and £24.95 ready-built. The product was beset by technical problems including a battery life of just 10 days, variable accuracy and a very sensitive integrated circuit which could be rendered useless by a static shock from […]

Blue Hills

Blue Hills may refer to:

Blue Hills (radio serial)

Places named Blue Hills:

Blue Hills, Gauteng a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Blue Hills, Turks and Caicos Islands the highest point of the Turks and Caicos Islands

Blue Hills, Massachusetts, United States including

Blue Hills Reservation

Blue Hills Ski Area

Great Blue Hill

Blue Hills, Connecticut

Aceair

Aceair SA was a Swiss aircraft manufacturer established in Manno in 1999. It was developing the AERIKS 200 in kitplane form.

Status
Aceair ceased operation in 2004, and with it the Aeriks 200 project was cancelled. This was principally due to Diamond Engines cancelling the manufacture of the rotary engine the 200 was […]

Someone to Watch over Me

Someone to Watch over Me may refer to:

In television:

“Someone to Watch over Me” (Frasier), episode from the second season of the television show Frasier

“Someone to Watch over Me” (Voyager episode), Star Trek: Voyager episode

In other fields:

Someone to Watch over Me (film), a motion picture from 1987

“Someone to Watch over Me”(song), song […]

HMS Diamond

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Diamond.

Diamond, a 50-gun ship launched at Deptford in 1652 and captured by France in 1693.

Diamond, a fifth-rate 50 gun ship launched at Blackwall in 1708 and rebuilt at Depford in 1722, sold in 1744.

Diamond, a fifth-rate launched at Limehouse in 1741 and sold in 1756.

HMS […]

Artsimovich (crater)

Artsimovich is a small lunar impact crater located in the western Mare Imbrium of the Earth’s moon. This is a circular crater forming a cup-shaped excavation in the surface of the lunar mare. To the east is Diophantus crater and to the northeast lies Delisle crater. Less than 20 kilometers to the north-northeast is the […]

Solar powered watch

A solar powered watch is a watch that is powered entirely or partly by a solar panel.

In the 1990s, Citizen developed such a watch, called the Eco-Drive. They have developed the technology such that solar powered watches are now a major part of their range of watches. Several other watch manufacturers offer similar watches or […]

Diamond ring

Diamond ring or This Diamond Ring may refer to:

Diamond ring, a type of Jewellery. For this usage, see also engagement ring.

This Diamond Ring, a 1965 pop song written by Al Kooper, Bob Brass and Irwin Levine, and attributed to Gary Lewis and the Playboys

“Diamond Ring”, a song by Bon Jovi from their 1995 album These […]

Steinmetz Pink Diamond

The Steinmetz Pink is a diamond weighing 59.60 carats (11.92 g), rated in color as Fancy Vivid Pink by the Gemological Institute of America. The Steinmetz Pink is the largest known diamond having been rated Vivid Pink. As a result of this exceptional rarity, the Steinmetz Group took a cautious 20 months to cut the […]

Black Rose (band)

Black Rose was a Danish hard rock / heavy metal band with King Diamond on vocals. The band was started in 1979, largely inspired by bands such as Deep Purple and Golden Earring. King Diamond already had a very theatrical stage act, for which he later got fame in Mercyful Fate. The band did not […]

Baken diamond mine

The Baken diamond mine is a diamond mine located along the lower Orange River in South Africa. The mine is owned and operated by Trans Hex. The central processing plant has been operational at Baken since 2001.

In 2004 the Baken mine produced 88,063 carats (17.6126 kg); average stone size for the year was […]

Tonality diamond

In music theory, the n-limit tonality diamond is the set of rational numbers r, <math>1 \le r < 2</math>, such that the odd part of both the numerator and the denominator of r, when reduced to lowest terms, is less than or equal to the fixed odd number n. Equivalently, the diamond may be considered […]

Letlhakane diamond mine

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 […]

All-aspect

An all-aspect missile is one which is able to track a target no matter which way the target faces relative to the missile. In other words, an all-aspect missile can be launched against a target in a tail-chase engagement, in a head-on engagement, in a side-on engagement, from above, from below, etc.

This is as opposed […]

Kollur Mine

The Kollur Mine in Guntur district of old Golkonda kingdom, India, was one of the most productive diamond mines in India and the first major diamond center. It operated between the sixteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. In addition to the Kollur Mine, the Partiyala, Gollapally, Mallavally, Ramallakota, and Banganapally were extremely prolific mines in […]