Its best freshwater pearls fueled a ready market overseas, purchased by people who, unlike the then less sophisticated frontier Americans, knew the rarity and value of large, round, lustrous pearls.

Quite soon after their initial success with cultured saltwater pearls, Japanese pearl farmers experimented with freshwater mussels in Lake Biwa, a large lake ... pearls are round enough and ...

Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of ... it is found round the coasts of Ceylon, near Ormus, in the Persian ...

Although model pearls are perfectly round and smooth, in reality they come in a huge number ... Among the millions of bivalve molluscs in the Museum's collections, one specimen stands out: a large ...

Along with sweet potato starch, corn starch, and sugar, it's mixed into a paste and rolled into small, round balls ... You'll often find large tapioca pearls sitting at the bottom of bubble ...

Here's where things stand on Day 3 of the Pearl Fire that's burning 50 miles northwest of Fort Collins and near Red Feather Lakes.

The human-caused wildfire burning in northern Larimer County sparked on private property near Red Feather Lakes, the U.S.

In the case of a unique and large strand of pearls ... “We are currently collecting various colors of small natural round pearls of different species for future designs,” Grosz noted.

The Pearl Fire burning north of Red Feathers Lake did not grow overnight and mandatory evacuations remain in place.

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According to the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, the mandatory evacuations are in place for Crystal Lakes – south of Black ...

For over 20 years, the Pokemon anime has covered Ash's journey through the various regions of Pokemon. As the anime aired, ...