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Kitāb al-Kanūz (Arabic: كتاب الكنوز, "Book of Treasures"), sometimes called The Book of Hidden Pearls, is a lost medieval Arabic manuscript from the 15th century. The manuscript is a hunter's guide noted for its mention of the Zerzura oasis. The author and exact dating of the manuscript are unknown.
The treasure would be composed of "carved silver, gold jewellery, pearls and stones of value, Chinese porcelain, rich fabrics, paintings and perhaps 500,000 pesos". [10] The stories about this treasure are varied, some place it in the environment of the Roques de Anaga , while others place it in the zone of Punta del Hidalgo and the cave of San ...
The 94-year-old investing legend usually has a few pearls of wisdom in his annual shareholder letter. This year was no different. Warren Buffett included 4 key pearls of wisdom in his annual ...
The second-oldest Latin-letter society, the P.D.A. Society ("Please Don't Ask"), in 1776 refused entry to John Heath, then a student at the college; rebuffed, he in the same year established the first Greek-letter secret society at the college, the Phi Beta Kappa, modeling it on the two older fraternities (see the Flat Hat Club). The Phi Beta ...
Arthur Dimmesdale is a fictional character in the 1850 romance The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A Puritan minister, he has fathered an illegitimate child, Pearl, with Hester Prynne and considers himself unable to reveal his sin. [1] [2]
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] Wooga also released a soundtrack to the game. [4]
Knowing that the pearls were indeed from the stolen necklace, they then agreed to meet again on 22 August at the First Avenue Hotel in Holborn. The pair then booked rooms at the Great Eastern Hotel and contacted Frank Price, and together got a Paris pearl merchant, Max Spanier, who was a friend of Max Mayer to pose as a buyer for the pearls. He ...
The book is about twelve forest creatures whose mates disappear after being crystallized by a dark dust that falls every evening. The forest creatures combine forces with Zac (the handsome woodcarver), Ana (his beautiful half-elf, half-human wife), and their timid, chubby, winged "doth" Pook (inspired by the author's dog Misty) [3] to save the creatures and restore the dying forest.