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How Kiama’s ‘blue diamond’ helped build colonial Sydney, paving the way with basalt

The distinct hexagonal columns found at Kiama’s Bombo Headland Quarry on the New South Wales south coast, like those of the Giant’s Causeway in Ireland, are a natural phenomenon offering geologists insights into the Earth’s core mantle.

But they also tell a different story, one of hard-working men doing loud and dangerous mining work as old Sydney town established itself on the back of basalt.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story has a photo of people who have died.

First mined in the 1880s, basalt came to be known as Kiama’s blue diamond.

“Kiama’s blue diamond

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Diamonds are a girls and boys best friend and they aren’t always natural

VENTURA, Calif. -Things have changed since Marilyn Monroe sang about diamonds being a girl’s best friend.

Santa Barbara and destination wedding planner Percy Sales said they are also a boy’s best friend.

These days some Valentines and engagement ring shoppers have natural and lab grown diamonds to choose from.

Jewelry Couture sells both.

“I had a customer who picked up his ring this morning a five-carat lab grown diamond in a ring,” said Jewelry Couture owner Shahar Sehati.

While some jewelers are reluctant to sell them, others are meeting the growing demand.

“The demand became more and more and people

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Trump turned the memorial for vlogger Diamond into a campaign speech – and complained the service wasn’t 15 minutes

Donald Trump struggled to meet the mood of a memorial service for Ineitha Lynnette Hardaway, better known as “Diamond” of the pro-Trump duo Diamond and Silk.

Speaking Saturday at the gathering in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the former president at times sounded more like a candidate delivering a stump speech than an ex-president memorializing a valued friend or political ally.

At one point, he even quipped that the service had gone on much longer than the “15

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Diamond and Silk Survivor Rochelle Richardson Rages at COVID Death Rumors

Rochelle Richardson of Diamond and Silk has taken to Twitter to vent her frustration at ongoing rumors that claim her sister, Lynette Hardaway, died of COVID-19.

The death of Hardaway, also known as “Diamond” of the conservative political duo, was announced on Monday evening.

The tweet by the duo’s Twitter page read: “The World just lost a True Angel and Warrior Patriot for Freedom, Love, and Humanity!”

“Please respect the privacy of Diamond’s family! Memorial Ceremony TBA. Contributions towards Preserving Diamond’s Legacy are only being accepted at the following link.”

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Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, also known as Diamond and
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The economist who just won the Nobel Prize warns the Fed will ‘all kinds of trouble’ if it raises rates too fast

The University of Chicago has long been known for its roster of distinguished economists, including Douglas Diamond, who just shared the Nobel Prize in Economics with former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke and Diamond’s frequent collaborator, Philip Dybvig of Washington University in St. Louis. Since Diamond’s a specialist in the economics of banking, I wanted to get his view on the inflationary surge and the Fed’s desperate race to tame it. On Oct. 11 we spoke at length by phone. Diamond quickly noted that the central bank’s moves did exert a huge impact on the lending ecosystem. And he expressed strong …

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‘Diamond,’ of pro-Trump duo Diamond and Silk, dies at 51

RALEIGH, NC

Lynette Hardaway, known by the moniker “Diamond” of the conservative political commentary duo Diamond and Silk, has died, former President Donald Trump and the pair’s official Twitter account announced. She was 51.

Hardaway and her sister, Rochelle “Silk” Richardson, rose to prominence during the 2016 presidential campaign cycle when they appeared on stage in support of Trump, who embraced the two Black women amid widespread accusations of racism and sexism.

Hardaway’s cause of death hasn’t been released. Trump, who called her death “really bad news for Republicans” in a Monday night post on his Truth Social platform, said

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