For his discovery the man was set free, and the largest pearl in the world began the journeys, or peregrinations, that would endow it with its name: La Peregrina.
According to Scottish Natural Heritage, 72 of Scotland's rivers support reproducing populations of freshwater pearl mussel including many of the world's largest populations.
He had joined the service after graduating from high school during the Great Depression and had been discharged in 1941, but re-enlisted after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor launched the United States into World War II.
They married on December 31, 1942, just about a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II.
Imagine if U.S. involvement in World War II that began at Pearl Harbor was still taking place in 1973, a long strange trip from the Andrews Sisters to Led Zeppelin.
And after 1938, Franklin Roosevelt decided that Hitler posed a threat to the United States, but he was unable to convince an isolationist American public to enter World War II until the Japanese solved his problem by attacking Pearl Harbor at the end of 1941.
This initiative proved critical to Britain's defense in the run-up to Pearl Harbor, at which point the United States became decisively not just the Free World's armory, but its savior.
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.
For the first time since Pearl Harbor was bombed 50 years earlier, the United States faced no major threats in the world.
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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.
In the history books, the Second World War can appear as a series of crises and conflicts, following an inevitable course from Pearl Harbor to the coast of Normandy to the deck of the Missouri.
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