After a morning browsing the souq, jump into a taxi for the 20-minute ride to the Pearl-Qatar, a man-made island in West Bay Lagoon and one of the most up-and-coming areas in Doha.
Made from every manner of material--from ivory and brass to animal teeth and mother-of-pearl--tampers come in a wonderful variety of motifs, including a horse's hind leg, a bust of Oliver Cromwell, a milkmaid and, yes, a human finger.
The painting, dated to around 1637, shows Princess Mary at the age of five or six, wearing a rich silver-laced gown and pearl head-dress, standing before a classical column and ornate gold damask curtain.
Transformers Director Michael Bay then became one of the Bad Boys by dropping a Pearl Harbor-sized bomb on Paramount regarding its decision in a blog post since deleted and retracted, leading to speculation it was really the Decepticon version of Michael Bay that made the original posting.
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He's a tall man in cowboy boots, a pearl snap shirt and a 10-gallon hat, carrying a leather satchel.
The survey was conducted by Dr. Elana Pearl Ben-Joseph, a consulting medical editor at KidsHealth and the Nemours Center for Children's Health Media, and a pediatrician at the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, in Wilmington, Delaware, and colleagues.
Officials concede they are refraining from offering a preliminary or cursory analysis of the e-mail because they are "trying not to excite Pearl's family, friends and colleagues" at The Wall Street Journal, where the 38-year-old Pearl works as a reporter.
Mother-of-pearl is used as a pristine gloss on the instrument cluster, knobs, and clock.
Rather than the flat bottoms that characterize most traditional boathouses, the Pearl would have a bobber-like shape.
Friedlander has constructed another stage for her hypermarketing: Its the Pearl Bar, a 450-square-foot boutique at Bloomingdales flagship New York store.
Mr Wang's rethink was triggered by a spate of 200-odd strikes last year in the Pearl River delta that began in May with workers downing tools at a Honda car-parts factory in Foshan, near Guangzhou.
Seashell leather upholstery, headrests embroidered with Rolls-Royce logos, and a mix of mother-of-pearl and wood trim make up the interior, according to Automobile Magazine.
Chef Fabienne Escoffier turns out a rich beef stew studded with smoked bacon, pearl onions and braised mushrooms enrobed in a chestnut-colored sauce whose flavor hints at the full-bodied Burgundy she cooks with.
The world's second-largest barrier reef provides a stunning backdrop to the Black Pearl Course, with the 120-room resort scheduled to open January 2012.
For pearl lovers, the sale includes a three-stranded necklace composed of 143 white natural pearls with lustrous quality.
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Promptly after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt created a high-powered commission, headed by Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, to investigate how such a catastrophic surprise attack could have occurred.
One displays a cushion-cut diamond surrounded by pearls, while the other features a large pearl surrounded by diamonds.
Sharon and Joel Edelson handed in a small mother-of -pearl knife, found among her late father-in-laws belongings.
Take Pearl, a houseboat that features a clear dome-shaped topper and a teak ring-shaped deck.
The pearls measure from 2.5 to 12.8 mm, spaced by diamonds, with a suspending drop-shaped natural pearl.
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But unless you're willing to move to a part of the country with a lower cost of living, the savings may prove modest, cautions Beth Blecker, CEO of a financial-planning firm in Pearl River, N.
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Pearl's widow, Mariane, released a two-page letter Friday thanking the world for the outpouring of support during the monthlong ordeal of her husband's abduction.
Accompanying the Ono is an 18-karat white gold necklace with a Tahitian black pearl pendant and XS logo for the lady.
As a former Pearl and Curve owner, I want -- nay, need -- to determine for myself how well BlackBerry's latest effort holds up against its rivals.
One customer of Toyota of Orange is waiting two months to get the car she really, really wants: an all-wheel-drive Sienna XLE Limited minivan in arctic frost pearl with a navigation system.
Robert Woodruff, Coca-Cola's chief, complied readily having already promised shortly after Pearl Harbor to supply every man in uniform with a five-cent bottle of Coca-Cola, no matter the cost to the company.
Dreamed up with John Cocomile, a Toronto attorney, Pearl offers services to small-time inventors who believe their patents have been violated by big bad corporations but can't afford to build a case.
Reality hit when they started looking for a fine cotton fabric and mother-of-pearl buttons.
Already their numbers have been decimated by marriage and migration. (Some 40, 000 Macanese now live abroad.) They and their once-graceful port at the mouth of the Pearl River will have a hard time maintaining a distinct identity under mainland rule.
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