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In Reply to: RE: off topic and something on topic posted by morricab on June 15, 2007 at 07:25:56
De Beers is a South African company but were part of the British Commonwealth prior and during WWII. They actually started their diamond campaign by giving the British royalty large pieces of diamond jewelry under the stipulation that they had to wear it in public.
They also bought out the only diamond mine in the US and then donated the land to the state of Arkansas (IIRC) under the stipultation that it never be reopened for commercial purposes.
Stu
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