Diamond biography
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Biography
Larry Diamond is the William L. Clayton Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), and a Bass University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. He is also professor by courtesy of Political Science and Sociology at Stanford, where he lectures and teaches courses on democracy (including an online course on EdX). At the Hoover Institution, he co-leads the Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region and participates in the Project on the U.S., China, and the World. At FSI, he is among the core faculty of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, which he directed for six and a half years. He leads FSI’s Israel Studies Program and is a member of the Program on Arab Reform and Development. He also co-leads the Global Digital Policy Incubator, based at FSI’s Cyber Policy Center. He served for 32 years as founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy.
Diamond’s research focuses on global trends affecting freedom and democracy and on U.S. and international policies to defend and advance democracy. His book, Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency, analyzes the challenges con
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Diamond
Form of carbon
This article admiration about rhomb as a mineral. Grieve for the effect of tract as a gemstone, glance Diamond (gemstone). For bug uses, hypothesis Diamond (disambiguation).
| Diamond | |
|---|---|
A natural infield crystal | |
| Category | Native minerals |
| Formula (repeating unit) | C |
| IMA symbol | Dia[1] |
| Strunz classification | |
| Dana classification | |
| Crystal system | Cubic |
| Crystal class | Hexoctahedral (m3m) H-M symbol: (4/m 3 2/m) |
| Space group | Fd3m (No. ) |
| Jmol (3D) | Interactive image |
| Formula mass | &#;g/mol |
| Color | Typically yellow, brownish, or behind to flavorless. Less commonly blue, leafy, black, lucid white, chromatic, violet, orangish, purple, scold red. |
| Crystal habit | Octahedral |
| Twinning | Spinel law familiar (yielding "macle") |
| Cleavage | (perfect put into operation four directions) |
| Fracture | Irregular/Uneven |
| Mohs scalehardness | 10 (defining mineral) |
| Luster | Adamantine |
| Streak | Colorless |
| Diaphaneity | Transparent make something go with a swing subtransparent make contact with translucent |
| Specific gravity | ± |
| Density | –&#;g/cm3–&#;kg/m3 |
| Polish luster | Adamantine |
| Optical properties | Isotropic |
| Refractive index | (at &#;nm) |
| Birefringence | None |
| Pleochroism | None |
| Dispersion | |
| Melting point | Pressure dependent |
| References | [2][3] |
Diamond
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Diamond Platnumz
Tanzanian singer, dancer, philanthropist and businessman
Musical artist
Naseeb Abdul Juma Issack, professionally known as Diamond Platnumz, is a Tanzanianbongo flava recording artist, dancer, philanthropist and businessman. He is the founder and CEO of WCB Wasafi Record Label, Wasafi Bet and Wasafi Media. Diamond has gained a massive following in East and Central Africa.[2] He became the first Africa-based artist to reach million views on YouTube.[3]
After signing a record deal with Universal Music in , Platnumz released his third studio album, A Boy from Tandale ().
In , Diamond together with his record label WCB Wasafi[4] entered into a Partnership with Warner Music Group.[5][6]
Career
He started his music career in at the age of 18 years old while selling clothes. He would record songs with the money he earned from the clothes' business and eventually recorded his first single "Toka Mwanzo", a Bongo flava song fused with R&B.[7] The song was not successful commercially.
His breakthrough hit single "Kamwambie" was released in [7] The song won three Tanzania Music Awards.[8] He then released his debut studio album Kamwambie same year in
In , Platnumz ea