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Tahitian pearls come in a range of colors from white to black. [2] They can contain various undertones and overtones of green, pink, blue, silver and yellow. The most valuable of these are of the darker variety, as the naturally dark tones of the Tahitian pearls is a unique quality among pearls.
The pearl was greater than an inch in diameter, of the purest white and emitted light like moonglow. In the dark it could illuminate an entire room. For these reasons it was known as "Duke Sui's Pearl" [隋侯珠] or the "Spirit Snake's Pearl" [靈蛇珠], or, again, the "Moonlight Pearl" [明月珠]. (tr. DeWoskin and Crump 1996: 239).
Servilia's pearl was a pearl given by Julius Caesar to his favourite mistress Servilia.It was described by imperial biographer Suetonius to be a lone (uniones, meaning "singleton") [1] large black pearl [2] worth six million sesterces (approximately 1.5 billion dollars in 2019 value), making it perhaps the most valuable gem of all time.
The Black Pearl is the titular pirate ship that appears in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.Similar to how Jack Sparrow was compared to Han Solo from the Star Wars franchise, the Black Pearl was compared to the Millennium Falcon at least once by James Ward Byrkit, a creative consultant of Gore Verbinski's Pirates trilogy, in the Disney+ series Prop Culture.
A snake-stone, also known as a viper's stone, snake's pearl, black stone, serpent-stone, [1] or nagamani is an animal bone or stone [2] used as folk medicine for snake bite in Africa, South America, India and Asia. [3] [4] The early Celtic era European adder stone is also called a snake stone, and is usually made from coloured glass, often with ...
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