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Diamond Approach The Diamond Approach is a contemporary spiritual path integrating the teachings and practices of the ancient wisdom traditions with modern depth psychology. The Diamond Approach is derived from the experiences of its founders, A.
Diamond Bar High School The Diamond Bar High School is located in Diamond Bar, California, and is part of the Walnut Valley Unified School District. The school mascot is the brahma bull, and the school colors are purple, gold and white.
Diamond Bessie Diamond Bessie is the popular name given to Bessie Moore, née Annie Stone, a prostitute whose murder in the woods outside of Jefferson, Texas propelled her to the level of local legend. She was killed by a single gunshot wound to the head sometime during the early afternoon of Sunday, January 21, 1877.
Diamond Brook Diamond Brook is a tributary of the Passaic River which flows south through a section of Bergen County in New Jersey. Heading up the brook from the Passaic River, one encounters the towns of Fair Lawn, Glen Rock and Ridgewood.
Diamond clarity Diamond clarity is a quality of diamonds relating to the existence and visual appearance of internal characteristics of a diamond called inclusions, and surface defects called blemishes. Clarity is one of the four Cs of diamond grading, the others being carat, color, and cut.
Diamond cut In order to best utilize a diamond gemstone's superlative material properties, a number of different diamond cuts have been developed. A diamond cut constitutes a more or less symmetrical arrangement of facets which together modify the shape and appearance of a diamond crystal.
Diamond cutting Diamond Cutting is the art, skill and, increasingly, science of changing a diamond from a rough stone into an attractive gem. It is possible only because the hardness of diamond varies widely according to the direction in which one is trying to cut or grind.
Diamond City Hana Diamond City Hanaa large shopping center, is part of the Japanese Diamond City] chain of shopping centers. Daimond City Hana houses a wide selection of popular retail stores, a Jusco department store, numerous restaurants, [[fast food shops, and a large game center.
Diamond Creek Trail Diamond Creek Trail, located in Australia, runs from the outer northern suburb of Diamond Creek and generally follows the creek and railway to Eltham where it joins the Main Yarra Trail (also called Yarra River Trail). It is mostly flat with some minor rises.
Diamond Crush Diamond Crush is a puzzle game to be released worldwide before the end of 2006 by the Italian Diamonds Team (tentative name), totally for free on different PC operating systems, under open source Public Domain license. The First Playable Version, a sort of pre-alpha for offline multiplayer gaming only, is already available for download onto the official game site for playtesting purposes.
Diamond dust Diamond dust is the name commonly used to refer to a ground-level cloud composed of tiny ice crystals. This meteorological phenomenon is also referred to simply as ice crystals and is reported in the METAR code as IC.
Diamond District, Manhattan The Diamond District is an area of New York City located on West 47th Street between Fifth Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) in midtown Manhattan, within walking distance of many New York attractions. It is located one block south of Rockefeller Center, three blocks south of Radio City Music Hall (along the Avenue of the Americas) and three blocks south of St Patrick's Cathedral (along Fifth Avenue).
Diamond enhancement Diamond enhancements are specific treatments, performed on natural and sometimes synthetic diamonds (usually those already cut and polished into gems), which are designed to improve the gemological characteristics — and therefore the value — of the stone in one or more ways. These include clarity treatments such as laser drilling to remove inclusions, application of sealants to fill cracks, color treatments to improve a white diamond's color grade, and treatments to give fancy color to a white or off-color diamond.
Diamond Education College Diamond Education College based in Johannesburg, South Africa, provides various training courses enabling students to evaluate and grade rough diamonds, mark rough diamonds for polishing, and evaluate and grade polished diamonds.
Diamond Energy Diamond Energy Services, a Swift Current, Saskatchewan company is an operating company of TerraVest Income Fund (). Diamond Energy operates in the oilfield services business and maintains office and shop facilities in Medicine Hat and Red Deer, Alberta.
Diamond formation Diamond formation is a flight formation of aircraft in the shape of a kite. This is done by starting with one aircraft, and then increasing by one, the number of aircraft in each successive row, and then decreasing again by one until there is only one aircraft in the last row, eg.
Diamond Five The Diamond Five was a dedicated word processor designed and built by Data Recall Ltd at Dorking, Surrey, England in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was intended for technical authoring and secretarial use.
Diamond Harbour Diamond Harbour is in the southern suburbs of Kolkata, on the banks of river Hughli quite near where the river meets the Bay of Bengal. This small town is a popular weekend tourist spot located in South 24 Parganas district.
Diamond Head (band) Diamond Head are a British heavy metal band formed in 1976 in Stourbridge, England. They were one of the leading members of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) and are acknowledged by later bands like Metallica and Megadeth as an important early influence.
Diamond Heights, San Francisco, California Diamond Heights is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is located in the middle part of the city, roughly bordered by Diamond Heights Boulevard and Noe Valley on the east side and Glen Canyon Park on the west side.
Diamond Jubilee Higher Secondary School Diamond Jubilee Higher Secondary School (DJHSS) is a boys-only secondary school in Gobichettipalayam, in the Erode District of Tamil Nadu, India. It was established to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria in 1898.
Diamond Lake (Greyhawk) In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Diamond Lake is a mining town. Situated on the north shore of a lake of the same name, Diamond Lake is located in the Cairn Hills, and lies three days ride east of the Free City of Greyhawk.
Diamond Lake, Minneapolis The Diamond Lake neighborhood is in the Nokomis community in Minneapolis. It is bounded by Diamond Lake Road and 55th Street on the north, Cedar Avenue on the east, 62nd Street on the south and Interstate 35W on the west.
Diamond Lil Diamond Lil (Lillian Crawley-Jeffries) is a fictional mutant character created by Marvel Comics' creators Chris Claremont and John Byrne for their on-going series Alpha Flight. Lil has played the role of the hero, the villain, the innocent and the accused, but little is known about her past except her suffering.
Diamond Lil (play) Diamond Lil is a 1928 play by sultry American actress and playwright Mae West. Prior to Diamond Lil, she had written a number of plays that were closed down due to either poor ticket sales or indecency issues with local law enforcement authorities of the time.
Diamond Men Diamond Men is a 2000 film, a crime drama starring Robert Forster and Donnie Wahlberg. The independent film was written and directed by Dan Cohen, and was screened at the Hamptons International Film Festival in October 2000.
Diamond Mind Diamond Mind Baseball is a computer baseball simulation game, created by Canadian baseball expert Tom Tippett, who released the first commercial version of the game in 1987. In 1992, he started doing baseball work full time.
Diamond Mountain University Diamond Mountain University is a Buddhist university and retreat center located south of Bowie, Arizona in the Sonoran Desert. It was founded by Geshe Michael Roach in 2000 and the university opened to students in September of 2004.
Diamond net "Diamond net" is the name given in the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, hegelianism, to "the connective tissue, so to speak, that not only supports, but even in a measure constitutes, the various organs" of the universe. Hegel metaphorically considers philosophy the "translation" of what physics has "empirically prepared" into a conceptual, non-empirical form, a "diamond net" of metaphysics which first makes empirical observations "intelligible".
Diamond of opposites The diamond of opposites is a type of two-dimensional plot used in psychodrama groups. This tool can illuminate the presence of contradictions in processes that cannot be detected by any single questionnaire item using a traditional format such as the Likert scale.
Diamond Of Night Diamond Of Night was the Estonian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999, performed in English (the first time Estonia had not sung in Estonian, although a version was recorded in that language) by singer Evelin Samuel and violinist Camille. The Estonian version was titled Langevate tähtede aeg ("Time of shooting stars").
Diamond problem In object-oriented programming languages with multiple inheritance, the diamond problem is an ambiguity that arises when two classes B and C inherit from A, and class D inherits from both B and C. If a method in D calls a method defined in A, which class does it inherit from, B or C?
Diamond python The diamond python (Morelia spilota spilota) is a black snake with white or cream and gold markings. The snake is predominatnly identified as being black, with a white underbelly and gold diamonds along the top of its body and on its head.
Diamond Ranch High School Diamond Ranch High School (or DRHS) is a high school (secondary school) operated by the Pomona Unified School District (PUSD) in California, located on the hills where Diamond Bar and Phillips Ranch (a master-planned community located in the southwestern portion of the city limits of Pomona) meet. In 2003, Diamond Ranch was titled a California Distinguished School by the California Department of Education.
Diamond Rio Diamond Rio is a country band formed in 1989. They consist of Marty Roe (Lead Vocals, Acoustic Guitar), Jimmy Olander (Guitar, Banjo), Dana Williams (Bass, Vocals), Dan Truman (Keyboards) Gene Johnson (Mandolin, Vocals, Banjo, Fiddle, Guitar), and Brian Prout (Drums).
Diamond simulant The high price of gem-grade diamonds has created a large demand for materials with similar gemological characteristics, known as diamond simulants or imitations. Simulants are distinct from synthetic diamond, which unlike simulants is actual diamond, and therefore has the same material properties as natural diamond.
Diamond Sangha The Diamond Sangha is an organization of Zen Buddhist centers founded by Robert and Anne Aitken in the living room of their Hawaii home in October of 1959. The organization is known for making the rigors of traditional Zen accessible to practitioners, notably women, throughout the world.
Diamond Sutra The Diamond Sutra (Sanskrit: वज्रच्छेदिका प्रज्ञापारमितासूत्र Vajracchedika-prajñāpāramitā-sūtra, Chinese: 金剛經, Pinyin: jin gang jing, Japanese: kosan-kongyō), or "The Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom of the Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion," is a short Mahayana sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom genre, which teaches the practice of the avoidance of abiding in extremes of mental attachment. A copy of the Diamond Sutra, found sealed in a cave in China in the early 20th century, is the oldest known dated printed book, with a printed date of 868 CE.
Diamond tool A diamond tool is a cutting tool which contains diamond segments for cutting through a wide variety of materials which other cutting tools cannot. The segments are composed of diamond crystals and powder metal which form the bond, or 'matrix', of the segments.
Diamond turning Diamond turning is a process of mechanical machining of precision elements using Computer Numerical Control (CNC) lathes equipped with natural or synthetic diamond-tipped cutting elements. This process is also known as Single-Point Diamond Turning (SPDT).
Diamond Trading Company The Diamond Trading Company (DTC) is a London-based subsidiary of the De Beers Group, specializing in the sale and marketing of rough (uncut) diamonds. The company forms an essential part of De Beers' sales mechanism, maintaining an exclusive list of sightholders to which it sells all De Beers gem-grade diamonds coming to the market in a limited number of sales per year.
Diamond vault A diamond vault is a form of vault used in the Late Gothic and Renaissance style, which is based on an elaborate system of cavernous vaults in a manner resembling diamonds. It was widely used especially in Central European countries.
Diamond Valley Diamond Valley is a basin located in central Nevada in the western United States, between the Sulpher Spring Range and the Diamond Mountains. The valley is located almost entirely within Eureka County, but the northern end crosses into Elko County.
Diamond Valley Lake Built in the saddle of two mountains, Diamond Valley Lake is Southern California’s newest and largest reservoir is a vital link in the regional system that’s brought water to Southern California for the past 60 years. The lake nearly doubled the area’s surface water storage capacity and provided additional water supplies for drought, peak summer and emergency needs.
Diamond willow Diamond willow is willow distinctively shaped as the result of attack by fungus (Valsa sordida, and possibly others), which has resulted in a diamonding effect occurring in the wood of the shrub or tree as the tree forms cankers, or diamonds (elongated ovals with pointed ends), in response to the infection, according to Lutz (see reference below). Lutz is careful to indicate that this is the most likely--but not necessarily definitive--cause of diamonding in willows.
Diamond Wire Cutting Diamond Wire Cutting (DWC)is the process of using wire of various diameters and lengths, impregnated with diamond dust of various sizes to cut through materials. Because of the hardness of diamonds, this cutting technique can cut through most any material that is "softer" than the diamond abrasive.
Diamond-square algorithm The diamond-square algorithm is a method for generating highly realistic heightmaps for computer graphics. It is a three-dimensional implementation of the midpoint displacement algorithm which produces two-dimensional landscapes.
Diamond-Star Motors Diamond-Star Motors (commonly abbreviated to DSM) was an automobile-manufacturing joint venture between the Chrysler Corporation and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC). The name came from the parent companies' respective logos: three diamonds (Mitsubishi) and a pentastar (Chrysler).
DiamondAura A tradename for a diamond substitute widely advertised by Stauer as “vitually similar” to diamond. In a Q&A entry dated 12/14/2006 [Fred Cuellar, The Diamond Guy® of Diamond Cutters International (DCI), advises that the material is CZ, cubic zirconia [[http://en.
Diamondback moth The Diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) is a European moth that has since spread to North America. It is one of the most important pests of cole crops in the world and will usually only feed on plants that produce glucosinolatesTalekar, N.
Diamondback terrapin The Diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) is a species of turtle native to the brackish coastal swamps of the eastern and southern United States, from as far north as Cape Cod, Massachusetts and as far south as Corpus Christi, Texas.
Diamondoid A diamondoid, in the context of building materials for nanotechnology components, most generally refers to structures that resemble diamond in a broad sense: namely, strong, stiff structures containing dense, 3-D networks of covalent bonds, formed chiefly from first and second row atoms with a valence of three or more. Examples of diamondoid structures would include crystalline diamond, sapphire, and other stiff structures similar to diamond but with various atom substitutions which might include N, O, Si, S, and so forth.
Diamonds & Rust (song) "Diamonds & Rust" was a 1975 song written and performed by Joan Baez, which is said to describe her affair with Bob Dylan ten years prior. In the song, Baez recounts an out-of-the-blue phone call from an old lover, which sends her a decade back in time, to a seedy hotel in Greenwich Village.
Diamonds (TV series) Diamonds was a Canadian television series, which aired from 1987 to 1989. The show starred Nicholas Campbell as Mike Devitt and Peggy Smithhart as Christina Towne, a divorced couple who continued to work together as private investigators.
Diamonds and Pearls (Video Collection) The Diamonds and Pearls Video Collection is a collection of music videos compiled to accompany and further promote Prince's hit album Diamonds and Pearls. The collection was originally released in VHS format in 1992, and finally saw a DVD release on August 22, 2006 (the same release date as Prince's Ultimate collection).
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" is a song perhaps most famously performed by Marilyn Monroe in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. In a later scene, Jane Russell, who played opposite of Monroe, sang "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" in court.
Diamonds from Sierra Leone "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" was the first single from Kanye West's second album, Late Registration. Released in 2005, the single samples Shirley Bassey's theme song for the 1971 James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever.
Diamonds Team The Diamonds Team (tentative name) is a team of non-professional developers, put together for the free Diamonds Project and authors of an open source PC puzzle game named Diamond Crush to be released in 2006. All the team members are Italian but, since they are all spread throughout Italy, the team works in a collaborative way, coordinating everything by forums and instant messaging software.
Dian Fossey Dian Fossey (January 16, 1932 – December 26, 1985) was an American ethologist who completed an extended study of several gorilla groups. She observed them daily for years in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by famous paleontologist Louis Leakey.
Dian hong tea Dian hong (simplified: [traditional: 滇][[[pinyin]: Diānhóng) is a Chinese [[black tea which is used as a relatively high end gourmet black tea and is sometimes used in various tea blends. The main difference between Dian hong and other Chinese black teas is the amount of fine leaf buds, or "golden tips," present in the dried tea.
Dian Kingdom The Dian Kingdom was established by the Dian people, who lived around Lake Dian in eastern Yunnan, China from the late Spring and Autumn Period until the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Dian buried their dead in vertical pit graves Archaeology of Asia, pp.
Dian Man Dian Man, the son of Dian Wei, was a military leader in the Chinese Three Kingdoms Period (155 – 220), during the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty. When his father was killed, Dian Man continued to serve the regional warlord, Wei Leader Cao Cao.
Dian Sastrowardoyo Diandra Paramitha Sastrowardoyo (born March 16, 1982 in Jakarta, Indonesia) -- more popularly known as Dian Sastro or Dian Sastrowardoyo -- is an Indonesian model and actress. In 1996, she was the cover girl of Gadis, a teen magazine in Indonesia.
Diana (mythology) In Roman mythology, Diana was the virgin goddess of the hunt, the equivalent of the Greek goddess Artemis. Born with her twin brother Apollo on the island of Delos, Diana was the daughter of Jupiter and Latona.
Diana 2006 Diana 2006 is the last album by the Lebanese singer Diana Haddad .In this album Diana Haddad has succeeded in attracting the western listener Especially in the hit " Mas & louly ", with the Algerian world singer : Khaled ..
Diana Brown & Barrie K. Sharpe Diana Brown & Barrie K. Sharpe were the act who were behind the early 1990s music style of Groundbeat, an Acid Jazz / Rare Groove offshoot that had its roots in the London area and old soul vinyl record shops.
Diana Carroll Diane Carroll was the Liberal candidate for the 2006 SA election in the electoral district of Adelaide. She is a teacher at TAFE and UniSA and a former president of the Public Relations Institute of Australia amongst other jobs and lives within the city of Adelaide.
Diana Coole Diana Coole is Professor of Political and Social Theory in the School of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck, University of London. Her main field of research covers, broadly, contemporary continental philosophy with special interests in poststructuralism (especially Foucault), and feminism and gender in political thought.
Diana Dill Diana Dill Darrid (January 22 1923) is a Bermuda-born American actress. She is the daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Melville Dill (also the name of her great-grandfather, a mariner), a former Attorney General of Bermuda, and former Commanding Officer of the Bermuda Militia Artillery.
Diana Eng Diana Eng (born 1983 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American fashion designer and was a contestant on the second season of the reality television program Project Runway. She attended Stanton College Preparatory School and later the Rhode Island School of Design.
Diana Fong Diana Fong is a graphic and website designer based in Hicksville, New York. After graduating in 2002 from Harvard University with a Master's Degree in Digital Media and Production Environments, she began work at Logic Controls, Inc.
Diana Gansky Diana Gansky, née Sachse (December 14, 1963 in Bergen auf Rügen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), is a German track and field athlete. She won an Olympic medal and belonged the world's best discus throwers in the world.
Diana Haddad Diana Joseph Foad Haddad (Arabic:ديانا جوزيف فؤاد حداد) (born on October 1, 1976 in Bsalim, Lebanon), known as Diana Haddad, is one of the most popular and successful singers in the Arab world.
Diana Hart Diana Hart (born in 1963 in Calgary, Alberta) is the youngest daughter of Canadian wrestling promoter Stu Hart and now his youngest living child. She is also the former wife of the British Bulldog (David Smith) and the mother of Harry Smith.
Diana Irey Diana L. Irey (born 20 August 1962) was a Republican Congressional candidate running against Democratic Congressman John Murtha in the United States House election, 2006 in Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district.
Diana Jones Award The Diana Jones Award is an annual award for "excellence in gaming". The award is unusual in two ways: first, it is not an award for a specific class of thing, but can be awarded to a person, product, publication, company, organization, event or trend - anything related to gaming; second, it does not count popularity or commercial success as a sign of "excellence".
Diana Karazon Diana Karazon (Arabic: ديانا كرزون) (Born October 30 1983 in Kuwait and raised and lived in Amman, Jordan) is a Jordanian singer who rose to popularity around the world after winning the first season of Super Star by Future Television. She has represented Jordan in Super Star, but later on she represented The Arabic Countries when she participated in the international World Idol competition and was remembered for singing an Arabic song when all other contestants sang in English.
Diana Leafe Christian Diana Leafe Christian is an author, editor of Communities magazine, and a national speaker and workshop presenter on starting new ecovillages and community and sustainability. She lives in an off-grid homestead at Earthaven Ecovillage in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, USA.
Diana Leblanc Diana Leblanc is an actress known to US audiences for her portrayal of Frannie Halcyon in the TV miniseries More Tales of the City (1998) and its follow-up Further Tales of the City (2001). These miniseries were sequels to Tales of the City (1994), which starred Nina Foch in the role of Frannie.
Diana Memorial Award The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Award for Inspirational Young People was established in 1999 by a board chaired by the Chancellor, Gordon Brown. The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Committee felt that this Award would reflect the personal interest of Diana, Princess of Wales in helping and supporting young people.
Diana Miller Diana Miller (March 18, 1902 - December 18, 1927) was an American actress in silent motion pictures from Seattle, Washington. She had Titian red hair and excelled in playing roles which required delineation of character.
Diana Mitford Diana Mitford, The Hon Lady Mosley (17 June, 1910 – 11 August, 2003) was one of Britain's noted Mitford sisters. Known for her friendship with Adolf Hitler, her involvement with right-wing political causes resulted in three years' internment during the Second World War.
Diana Morrison Diana Morrison is a British actress who played Jenny in London's West End production, and original cast recording of Aspects of Love and sang the first man you remember in Andrew Lloyd Webber, the Premiere Collection Encore.
Diana of the Crossways Diana of the Crossways is a novel by George Meredith which was published in 1885. It is an account of an intelligent and forceful woman trapped in a miserable marriage and was prompted by Meredith's friendship with society beauty and author Caroline Norton.
Diana Ossana Diana Ossana is an American Academy Award-winning writer who has collaborated on writing screenplays, teleplays, and novels with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry since they first worked together in 1992, on the semi-fictionalized biography Pretty Boy Floyd.
Diana Peacocke Councillor Diana Peacocke is an elected UUP politician for the North Down area of Northern Ireland, sometimes referred to as the Gold Coast, and was a candidate in the Assembly Elections in 2003. Armed with an economics degree, she is involved in several businesses and contributes to a wide variety of committees.
Diana Pharaoh Francis Diana Pharaoh Francis is an American author and professor. She teaches literature and writing at the University of Montana-Western, and resides in Montana with her husband, son, daughter, and an oversized lapdog.
Diana Reyna Diana Reyna is currently the New York City Council Member who represents the 34th Council District, which includes Williamsburg and Bushwick as well as Ridgewood in Queens, USA. Council Member Reyna was born and raised in New York City.
Diana Ross & the Supremes Sing and Perform "Funny Girl" Diana Ross & the Supremes Sing and Perform "Funny Girl" is a 1968 cover album of songs from the Broadway musical Funny Girl, released by Diana Ross & the Supremes on the Motown label. Motown had Ross and the Supremes cover the Funny Girl songs (several of which were to appear on their shelved 1965 album There's a Place for Us) to tie-in with the September release of the feature-film version of the musical.
Diana Ross (author) Diana Patience Beverly Ross (July 8, 1910 - May 4, 2000), relative of Robert Ross, was an English children's author and occasional and longtime resident of Shaw, near Melksham, in Wiltshire. A graduate of the Central School of Art in London, she also worked on sculpture and graphic arts and illustrated several of her own books under the name of her cat, Gri.
Diana Ross discography This is a listing of all of the solo singles and albums released by American R&B/soul performer Diana Ross. Twenty-seven of her singles reached the Billboard Top 40 in the US; twelve reached the Billboard Top 10 and six of them reached #1.
Diana Ross Playground The Diana Ross Playground is located in New York City's Central Park, near the corner of West 81st Street and Central Park West. Its namesake, Diana Ross, is a solo recording artist, actress, and former frontwoman of The Supremes.
Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5 Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5 was the debut album from Gary, Indiana-based soul family band The Jackson 5, released on the Motown label in December 1969. The Jackson 5's lead singer, a preteenage boy named Michael Jackson, and his older brothers Marlon, Jermaine, Tito, and Jackie, became pop successes within months of this album's release.
Diana Spencer (1710-1735) Lady Diana Spencer (1710-1735) was a granddaughter of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. She was encouraged by her grandmother, Sarah, to hope for a royal alliance with the Prince of Wales, Frederick, which was prompted more by the prince's hope of an increased financial allowance than from any mutual affection.
Diana Taylor (professor) Diana Taylor is a professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University as well as the founding director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politic. As a major contributer to the area of Performance Studies in the Americas, her work focuses on Latin American and U.
Diana van der Plaats Adriana (“Diana”) van der Plaats (born August 12, 1971 in Utrecht) is a former freestyle swimmer from The Netherlands, who competed in two consequentive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1988. There she won the silver medal with the Dutch 4×100 m Freestyle Relay Team, behind East Germany, after swimming in the qualifying heats.
Diana Villiers Negroponte Diana Mary Villiers Negroponte (born 1947) is trade lawyer and adjunct professor of law at Fordham University whose professional name is Diana Villiers Negroponte. She is the wife of John Negroponte, the current U.
Diana Wallis Diana Paulette Wallis (born 28 June 1954 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Liberal Democrats for Yorkshire and the Humber since 1999. In 2006 she was re-elected as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament following the resignation of Chris Davies MEP (1), having previously held the post 2000-04.
Diana Weavers Diana Elizabeth Weavers (born May 4, 1975 in Darfield, New Zealand) is a field hockey defender from New Zealand, who finished sixth with her national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She also competed with The Black Sticks at the 1998 and the 2002 Commonwealth Games, and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Diana Wynne Jones Diana Wynne Jones (born London August 16, 1934) is a British writer, principally of fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction. Some of her better-known works include the Chrestomanci series and the novels Howl's Moving Castle and Dark Lord of Derkholm.

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