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Pearling. Pearling or genital beading is a form of body modification, the practice of permanently inserting small beads made of various materials beneath the skin of the genitals—of the labia, or of the shaft or foreskin of the penis.
Bacon is sceptical of the pearls' authenticity, but the Duchess manipulates him into buying them for £20,000. When the Duchess invites him to an event that includes royalty and her daughter Diana, Bacon is persuaded to write a cheque . In the end, the pearls are found to be fakes, and Bacon looks at his mother's portrait, questioning his ...
Pearl’s Peril is a hidden object game developed by Berlin-based Wooga. It was launched on 5 March 2013 on the Facebook social media platform [ 1 ] and on 5 September on iPad . [ 2 ] Pearl’s Peril is Wooga’s sixth game, and was the company’s fastest growing game at the time. [ 3 ]
Pearl hunting, also known as pearl fishing or pearling, is the activity of recovering or attempting to recover pearls from wild molluscs, usually oysters or mussels, in the sea or freshwater. Pearl hunting was prevalent in the Persian Gulf region and Japan for thousands of years.
Not that the finding of a new pearl is the condemnation of the old pearls, but that in comparison of that, all other pearls are worthless." [11] Gregory the Great: "Or by the pearl of price is to be understood the sweetness of the heavenly kingdom, which, he that hath found it, selleth all and buyeth. For he that, as far as is permitted, has ...
Scottish freshwater river pearls were also used and seem to have been usually smaller than marine pearl. [52] Scottish pearls were noted as an export to Flanders in 1435. [53] A daughter of Thomas Thomson, one of Mary's apothecaries, wore a headdress set with 73 Scottish pearls all of equal size. [54]
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There were around 30,000 pearl divers by the end of 1930, as pearling was the principal industry in Bahrain prior to the discovery of oil in 1932. After the collapse of the pearling industry, most divers switched to the newly founded oil sector. [12] Currently, the trading of cultured pearls in Bahrain is prohibited. [12] Few pearl divers ...