TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, July 25, 2011

Greetings Infomaniacs,

I am standing up in my friend's wedding in September, and yesterday was the wedding shower. It was a fun afternoon, and she got some nice gifts. However, I guess because I am not married yet and I am in a long term relationship, everyone feels the need to look at me and ask, "So when is it your turn?"

I was asked that question so many times that I felt like sticking a note to my forehead that said, "I don't know when my turn is yet, but I'll let you know!" My married friends say that they get pestered by a different question - "So when are you going to start having kids?" Guess it never ends!

Since I have marriage on the brain, let's enjoy a few diamond facts, shall we?

Enjoy!
Melissa

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Joy is not in things; it is in us."

HINT: (1813-1883), German composer, conductor, theatre director and essayist, primarily known for his operas.

RANDOM TIDBITS
Diamonds mined in Brazil are harder than those found in Africa.

A diamond will not dissolve in acid. The only thing that can destroy it is intense heat.

Of all the ore dug in diamond mines, only one carat in every 23 tons proves to be a diamond.

The largest diamond-in-the-rough ever found measured 3,106 carats and weighed more than a pound and a quarter. It was discovered in 1905 by Sir Thomas Cullinan, who brought it back to England that same year. It was eventually given to King Edward VII on his 66th birthday.

The Victoria-Transvaal diamond, mined in Africa in 1950 and one of the world's hundred largest and most famous diamonds, appeared in a Lex Barker-Dorothy Hart movie called Tarzan's Savage Fury. It was used to represent the eye of a jungle god.

In 1928 a farmer named William Hones, while planting in a field in Petersburg, West Virginia, found a greasy, shiny stone, which he brought home as a kind of curiosity. Fifteen years later it was discovered that his finding was a 32-carat diamond, one of the largest ever found in America.

VIDEO CLIP
Marilyn Monroe - Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend
Doesn't every girl love diamonds? In this video clip watch as Marilyn Monroe sings one of her classic songs, Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend.

Watch It Now: Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend

*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
I run forever,
With a roaring call.
Yet I have no throat,
Or any legs at all.

Rock wears away,
Whilst I grow.
You try to race me,
And receive a blow.

What am I?

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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: "Joy is not in things; it is in us."

ANSWER: Richard Wagner.

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