For decades the jeweler didn't countenance anyone who couldn't afford a diamond the size of an ice cube.

FORBES: Reconstructing Harry

It had a tidy business in early 1997 selling coin-size diamond-embedded inserts that fit into larger drill bits used to dig oil and gas wells.

FORBES: Money & Investing

Arriving ten minutes late, Griffith Gryga creates a small sensation when she shows up at Zona's booth -- long, platinum blonde hair cascading over the faux leopard fur collar of her dress, diamond studs the size of peas poking through her ears.

FORBES: Three men and a Web idea

Angola lies on the western coast of southern Africa, a country of 18 million people living in an oil- and diamond-rich area about twice the size of Texas.

FORBES: Isabel Dos Santos, Daughter Of Angola's President, Is Africa's First Woman Billionaire

Built by connecting a number of standard modules each measuring 384mm both in height and width and weighing eight kilograms, the Diamond Vision OLED is scalable and can be designed to flexibly form a certain size or shape, even against rounded surfaces.

ENGADGET: Mitsubishi's huge, modular OLED display set to go on sale worldwide on September 21

In fact Barclays sheer size and complexity was one reason why shareholders were not baying for Mr Diamond's immediate departure.

BBC: Diamond ��hounded out by MPs��

Nashville has one of the best hotels for a city its size in the world, the Forbes 5-Star, AAA 5-Diamond Hermitage, in the heart of downtown.

FORBES: Great Urban Weekend Escapes: Nashville, TN

The size of a duck's egg, with 184 carats, the seventh largest diamond in the world was used as a paperweight.

FORBES: Photograph: Andre Fanthome (RAAS)