Kimberley

(ˈkɪmbəlɪ)

1. (Placename) a city in central South Africa; the capital of Northern Cape province: besieged (1899–1900) for 126 days during the Boer War; diamond-mining and -marketing centre, with heavy engineering works. Pop: 62 526 (2001)

2. (Placename) Also called: the Kimberleys a plateau region of NW Australia, in N Western Australia: consists of rugged mountains surrounded by grassland. Area: about 360 000 sq km (140 000 sq miles)

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Kim•ber•ley

(ˈkɪm bər li)

n.

a city in E Cape of Good Hope province, in the central Republic of South Africa: diamond mines. 149,667.

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Kimberley - city in central South Africa; center for diamond mining and diamond marketing

Republic of South Africa, South Africa - a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)

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There, also, is a deep pit, which, at some time, long-dead men dug out, mayhap for the stones ye speak of, such as I have heard men in Natal tell of at Kimberley. There, too, in the Place of Death is a secret chamber, known to none but the king and Gagool.

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One day beggin', next time shammin' tight, and next one o' them old pals from Kimberley what never come when I'm in.

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Holmes, and it is the only time that ever I knew what love was-- it fairly drove me mad to think that she was in the power of the greatest brute and bully in South Africa--a man whose name is a holy terror from Kimberley to Johannesburg.

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Kimberley Walsh has revealed the surprising turn of events that unfolded when she was initially rejected from Girls Aloud.

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Kimberley Henry, 13, disappeared from Wellesley Terrace in the Arthur's Hill area of Newcastle "wrapped in a purple blanket".

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Summary: New Delhi [India], June 14 (ANI): More than 300 delegates will participate in the inter-sessional meeting of Kimberley Process being hosted by India from June 17 to 21 in Mumbai, the government said on Friday.

India to host Kimberley Process inter-sessional meeting next week

LONG-TERM youth supremo Sean Kimberley has left Aston Villa, the Mail understands.

Youth supremo leaves in Academy shake-up

Kimberley Macfarlane was threatened with jail by a sheriff who said her two suicide bids had "inconvenienced" the public by forcing road closures.

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Kimberley and Kayleigh Lomax attacked Ali Sajjad after a drunken argument outside Marbella Mambo bar, in Birkenhead.

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Not only did Melissa Janet Elaine McGovern arrive well ahead of her January 7 due date, her mum Kimberley Johnson was only in labour for six-and-a-half hours before she was born at 12.17am.

Little Melissa couldn't wait to make her big arrival

Abstract: In 1991 a large bush meeting was held at Rugan in the East Kimberley, organised by the Kimberley Land Council and attended by more than 500 Aboriginal people from across the Kimberley.

A regional governance structure for the Kimberley? Twenty-five years on from crocodile hole