Derek Dashwood
Derek Dashwood tries to live healthy lifestyles with his family, and delights in hearing his grand children lecture their friends on their poor diets. You will find many fascinating articles at http://www.dashforpower.com
Healthy Lifestyles
Articles by this Author
Diamond Clarity - Do You See What I See
- By Derek Dashwood
- Published 11/18/2008
- Beauty
- Unrated
Clarity allows us to see inside a diamond, for example, and see each imperfection or flaw. For in nature there is no such thing as flawless.
Step Lightly Over My Chameleon Diamond and Other Stresses
- By Derek Dashwood
- Published 11/18/2008
- Beauty
- Unrated
Did you know there was a chameleon diamond? And that the slight yellowish tinge causes it deflated prices from the more pure white diamonds.
Diamonds Are A Lifetime's Study
- By Derek Dashwood
- Published 10/22/2008
- Personal Finance
- Unrated
Diamonds are more abundant now with vast new finds in \Australia and Canada. More trained gemologists is being trained on the job.
Diamonds Are Nature's Perfect Investment
- By Derek Dashwood
- Published 10/14/2008
- Entrepreneurship
- Unrated
Diamonds come to us directly from the hellish cauldrons miles beneath our feet as pure carbon somehow changed from common coal to this amazing perfect investment.
Basic Steps To Check Out A Diamond
- By Derek Dashwood
- Published 10/12/2008
- Entrepreneurship
- Unrated
Diamonds may be the key to a girl's heart, and be forever. They also are the harder subsence known to man.
Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend, Again
- By Derek Dashwood
- Published 09/26/2008
- Culture and Society
- Unrated
Diamonds have a reputation of perfection among gems. This sparkling creation comes up to us from fires deep inside eart.
Chinese Antiques, Marco Polo And The Silk Road
- By Derek Dashwood
- Published 09/24/2008
- Culture and Society
- Unrated
In times of Chinese antiques, Marco Polo and his father and uncle carved a new more northern Silk Road between Europe to China.
Marco Polo And The Silk Road To China
- By Derek Dashwood
- Published 09/23/2008
- Culture and Society
- Unrated
Marco Polo and his father and uncle had to carve a new silk route to China from Europe, which would meet the older more southern silk road from China to Damascus.
Marco Polo And The Perfect Chinese Kowtow
- By Derek Dashwood
- Published 09/22/2008
- Culture and Society
- Unrated
To be able to kowtow, that is bow low to the emperor and those in Court meant all the difference in how successful you were in your royal visit.
Chinese Culture Beyond China's Olympics
- By Derek Dashwood
- Published 09/15/2008
- Culture and Society
- Unrated
We came, we saw and we were overwhelmed by China's Olympics. What next?