Author: George Payne Rainsford James
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Category : Arab countries
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Author: ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan Khazrajī
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Category : Yemen (Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Ali ibn HĐasan (al-Khazraji)
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Category : Yemen (Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Author: Michele Lowe
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
ISBN: 9781583422861
Category : Interpersonal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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"Michele Lowe's radiant new play explores the possibilities that open up in the lives of an array of women as they come into contact with a certain strand of pearls. While the pearls are stolen, bought, bestowed, unstrung and nearly lost, four actresses play 27 characters in this deeply moving drama that is as fresh as it is funny. On the eve of her granddaughter Amy's wedding, Beth asks to see the pearls she gave Amy's mother long ago. When Amy cannot produce them Beth determines to find the pearls. She takes us back to the time when she received them and then gave them to her daughter, who passed them on to her dearest friend Ela who lost them one Sunday morning. Spanning 35 years, the pearls touch the lives of mothers and daughters, sisters and friends, even husbands and wives as they weave a deeply affecting story of love and loss."--Publisher's website.

Author: Amy Sue Landau
Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295995243
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons, and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts, presented at The Walters Art Museum from November 8, 2015 to January 31, 2016 and at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco from February 26 to May 8, 2016."

Author: ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan Khazrajī
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Category : Yemen (Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Category : Islamic civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Molly Caldwell Crosby
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0425253732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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London, 1913. An exquisite strand of pale pink pearls, worth more than the Hope Diamond, has been bought by a Hatton Garden broker, capturing the attention of both jewelers and thieves. In transit to London from Paris, the necklace vanishes without a trace. Joseph Grizzard, “the King of Fences,” is the leader of a vast gang of thieves in London’s East End. Having risen from the deadly streets to become a wealthy family man, Grizzard still cannot resist the sport of crime, and the pearl necklace proves an irresistible challenge. Inspector Alfred Ward has joined the brand-new division of the Metropolitan Police known as “detectives.” Having caught some of the great murderers of Victorian London, Ward is now charged with finding the missing pearls and the thief who stole them. In the spirit of The Great Train Robbery, this is the true story of a psychological cat-and-mouse game. Thoroughly researched and compellingly colorful, The Great Pearl Heist is a gripping narrative account of this little-known, yet extraordinary crime.

Author: George Frederick Kunz
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Category : Pearl divers
Languages : en
Pages : 828

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Author: Rachel Trethewey
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ISBN: 9780750968294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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In February 1918, Lady Northcliffe, wife of the owner of The Daily Mail and The Times had the idea of raising funds for the Red Cross by asking women to give a pearl as a tribute to the dead and the wounded in the Great War. The plan was to create a necklace which would be auctioned at Christie's. However, the idea grew beyond her greatest expectations. It captured the public's imagination and over the next nine months nearly four thousand pearls poured in not just from Britain but from across the world. The pearls were discussed in drawing rooms, written about in The Times and even debated in Parliament. The story of the Red Cross Pearls is an historical gem which has never been told in detail before. Drawing on the archives of the Red Cross, Christie's and the Victoria and Albert Museum, this book traces the story of the Red Cross Pearl Appeal throughout the eventful year of 1918. Interweaving the story of the campaign with the personal stories behind individual pearls this book provides a snapshot of a world that was changed forever by the war