For three months after Simon's death, I worked day and night on my diamond lens.

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Due to a lack of permanent freshwater on most of the islands, it is likely the Ngaro lived in mainland Australia, venturing across the sea on canoes made from three diamond-shaped pieces of bark bound together with fibrous roots.

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It was one of three major diamond lots sold during the auction of 369 lots held during two sessions Tuesday.

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The only public statue of a monarch to be erected in Guernsey was that of Queen Victoria at Candie in 1900 - three years after her diamond jubilee.

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