MURFREESBORO, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — A man from Washington visiting Crater of Diamonds State Park found a two-carat diamond during his third day on the hunt at the iconic spot.

26-year-old Christian Liden, of Poulsbo, Wash., said he wanted to find the raw materials to make his own engagement ring. He started by panning for gold around his home state. After five years, he had accumulated enough for the ring. Up next, it was time for the diamond — which led him to Arkansas.

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told the New York Times on Sunday that tourists will need to have received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine to travel to any of the 27 member states of the European Union. “All 27 member states will accept, unconditionally, all those who are vaccinated with vaccines that are approved by E.M.A. [European Medicines Agency],” von der Leyen said.

The three vaccines being deployed in the United States — Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson — have been approved by the E.M.A. European regulators also gave the go-ahead on the AstraZeneca vaccine, while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is still reviewing it for approval.

The specifics of how American tourists will have to provide proof of vaccination are still being worked out. Officials in Brussels told the Times a “low-tech solution” will suffice as the United States and international governments work out the kinks of delivering a program “acceptable and readable in the European Union, and vice versa.”

Camp Ozone is nestled in the small community of Ozone, TN, on the eastern edge of the Cumberland Plateau. With 320 acres of wooded land, and a 10 acre lake, we are a quiet getaway from the busy cities, yet we are within a 2 hour drive of Knoxville, Nashville, and Chattanooga. Ozone Falls, a 110 Ft. waterfall, is within walking distance of the camp property.

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Delta's research is based on its business customers saying what they're going to do in the future. 40% say they'll be back to normal flying by 2022. I don't even know how I'm going to behave next week. //

Then again, I do believe there'll soon be enormous enthusiasm for getting away from it all to anywhere sunny that'll let us in. Just so we can breathe quietly and forget 2020.

Wouldn't it be a beautiful twist of fortune if, in the near future, companies worked far harder at getting their employees to fly away and relax with their loved ones, rather than to eat steak and drink whiskey with someone they don't even like?

According to Opdyke—a U.S. expat who’s lived in Prague now for nearly two years—it’s possible to gain citizenship-by-naturalization in two to four years in plenty of places around the world.

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Despite the ongoing pandemic Americans seem to be increasingly taking to the skies, but we’re still locked out of most international destinations and air travel continues to feel like a risky decision. That doesn’t mean we can’t pretend that we’re traveling, though, and if we’re going to be living some kind of globe-trotting delusional fantasy we might as well invest in something like this Pan Am-branded in-flight service drinks trolley.

When you’re flying high above the ground in a metal tube for hours, there’s nothing better than having an empty seat next to you. In light of the coronavirus pandemic, that’s become even more important. Now more than ever travelers want — and need — to know how crowded their flight may be. With social …

About 6 months ago, our 11 year old science loving daughter told us she wanted to dig for diamonds. I laughed and asked her where she would like to dig for these diamonds. She immediately said, “At Crater of Diamonds State Park”, like I should have known, of course. I am not sure where this Texas girl heard about digging for diamonds in Arkansas, but she was on a mission to go diamond digging. Each time we talked about going on a trip, she would bring it up, so we decided to make her dream come true and go diamond digging.

With a bit of luck and skills enhanced by these following Crater of Diamonds State Park tips, you too can find diamonds. Get your sifting screen ready!

Kalel Langford, a 14-year-old from Centerton, Ark., was in town for a baseball tournament March 11 when he and his parents visited Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park.

The teenager was walking near an area called the East Drain, in the southern portion of the park’s diamond search area, when he spotted a sparkling, dark brown stone. “It was just a few inches from a stream of water, with a bunch of other rocks that were about the same size,” he told the park authority later.

The shiny brown rock turned out to be the seventh-largest diamond found at the Arkansas state park since 1972.

In the four years I’ve worked at JCK, we’ve published more than a few stories about Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Ark. It’s the only diamond mine in the world open to the public, and it’s located atop an eroded volcanic pipe in southwest Arkansas. At least once a year, we’ll run an article about a sizable discovery there—like the 3.85 ct. canary yellow diamond 14-year-old Tana Clymer uncovered in April (she sold it for a cool $20,000). //

Hard describes not only the toil required to find a diamond in Crater of Diamonds State Park, it also describes the soil: a rich field of lamproite, after the Greek word meaning glistening, a reference to the shiny mica crystals found in this type of volcanic rock. (Let’s not forget that hard also describes the finished product.) //

We had been told by Waymon Cox, an interpreter for the park, to look for visible signs of erosion.

“You have to dig in the low areas and look for gravel—that usually means colorful rocks and minerals, like jasper, hematite,” Cox told us. “You want to dig in the washouts, between the rows, off the sides of the pathways, wherever you find these little trenches where water has washed through. You don’t have to dig a deep hole—the deeper you dig, the more you’re limiting yourself.”

Finding a spot to break ground was a mystifying process. Cox had said that many of the most prominent diamonds found over the past year had been plucked from the surface, where they’d settled after years of erosion.

The best tips for hunting diamonds in Crater of Diamonds State Park, Arkansas. 

Where can diamonds be found? The answer might surprise you. Arkansas’s Crater of Diamonds State Park is one of the only diamond-producing site in the world where the public can search for diamonds in their original volcanic source. The policy here is "finders, keepers," meaning the diamonds you find are yours to keep.

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