Pearl (disambiguation)
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Pearl may refer to the following:
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[edit] Most frequent usage
- Pearl (jewelry), a round shiny object produced by molluscs and used in jewelry
- Pearl (color), a whitish iridescent color similar to the color of pearls
[edit] Places and buildings
- Pearl, Mississippi
- Pearl Harbor, the harbor in Oahu, Hawaii which was bombed by Japanese on December 7, 1941
- Qatar Pearl, an artificial island being reclaimed in Doha, Qatar
- Perlan (English: The Pearl), a landmark building in Reykjavík, Iceland
- Pearl District, Portland, Oregon
[edit] People
- Daniel Pearl, the WSJ journalist kidnapped and eventually murdered in Pakistan
[edit] Organizations
- TVB Pearl, a TV station in Hong Kong
- Pearl Brewing Company, an American brewery, established in 1881 in San Antonio, Texas
- Pearl Art and Craft Supply, a chain of retail art supply stores
- Partnership for Enhancing Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkages (PEARL), a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project to promote agricultural improvement in Rwanda
- Pearl Musical Instrument Company, a drum manufacturing company
[edit] Literature
- Pearl (literary magazine)
- The Pearl (novel), a novel by John Steinbeck
- The Pearl (erotica), a Victorian-era erotic literature magazine
- Pearl (poem), an alliterative poem written in Middle English
- Pearl (Scarlet Letter character), the name of a main character in the novel, The Scarlet Letter
- Pearl (User Friendly character), the name of a character in the webcomic User Friendly
- Pearl, a 1985 novel by Anne Leaton
[edit] Music and song
- Pearl (album), an album by Janis Joplin
- The Pearl (album) a 1984 album by Harold Budd and Brian Eno
- Pearls (album), an album by Elkie Brooks
- Pearl Jam, an American grunge band from Seattle
[edit] Film and television
- The Pearl (film), a 1947 Mexican film based on Steinbeck's novel
- Pearl (miniseries), a 1978 television miniseries
- Pearl (TV series), a 1996-1997 sitcom starring Rhea Perlman and Malcolm McDowell
- Station 5: The Pearl, the fifth DHARMA Initiative station in the television show Lost
- Pearl Krabs, the name of a character on SpongeBob SquarePants
- Pearl (Final Fantasy), a holy-elemental magic spell in the videogame Final Fantasy VI
- Pearl, a minor character in the Japanese anime One Piece
[edit] Computing
- PEARL programming language (Process and Experiment Automation Realtime Language)
- The original name of Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language), a programming language
- The BlackBerry Pearl, Research In Motion's first venture into the consumer phone market.
[edit] Video games
- Pokémon Pearl, a Nintendo DS game of the main Pokémon RPG series.
- Pearl Fey, a character in the Capcom game Ace Attorney series.
[edit] Comics
- Pearls Before Swine (comic strip), a United Features syndicated comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis.
[edit] Food and drink
- Pearl Restaurant in Melbourne, Australia
- Pearl (see bubble tea), edible tapioca pearls (dark balls) made from the Cassava root
- Pearl Brewing Company, an American beer company now owned by Pabst
[edit] Law
- The Pearl is the name of an 1867 US Supreme Court case (72 U.S. 574) (See: List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 72)
[edit] Medicine
- "Pearl" is often used by medical and pharmaceutical professionals to mean an important or useful fact. The expression probably originated from a "pearl of wisdom", but through repeated and technical use, it has lost its connection with wisdom or edification.
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