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Ruby Diamond

Ruby Diamond

• ... that prominent Florida State University benefactor Ruby Diamond (pictured) had the middle name Pearl?
• ... that the slogan "One Nation, One Language" has been used to justify the imposition of Hindi?
• ... that Swedish naval officer Axel Lagerbielke was imprisoned in Lima for over a year, held in Callao and eventually escaped from Panama on an English packet boat to Jamaica?
• ... that the title of Olivia Rodrigo's song "All-American Bitch" was derived from an essay by Joan Didion?
• ... that attending the 1984 Summer Olympics inspired Bob Barney to establish an institution to research the Olympic Games?
• ... that CBS executive Laurence Tisch found out on a tennis court in the U.S. Virgin Islands that rival network NBC had bought his company's affiliate station in Miami?
• ... that Mihai Eminescu's poem "Out of All the Masts", which Eminescu himself never intended to publish, has won posthumous praise as a "perfect combination of words"?
• ... that Saunders Island has a lava lake and is populated by penguins?