Mother-of-pearl is the hard, silvery, internal layer of several kinds of shells, especially oysters, the large varieties of which in the Indian Seas secrete this coat of sufficient thickness to ...

At the end of this month we farewell Aran Martin, after over two years as our editor. From early February, Sam Varghese will be acting editor of Pearls and Irritations. Sam previously acted as editor ...

Kash Patel, recently confirmed as FBI Director, praised his publicist Erica Knight for her critical role in his success. Knight, President of Knox Strategies, is renowned in conservative ...

Meanwhile, a five-string pearl necklace–a design from Jewish-owned, London vintage jewelry dealer Susan Caplan–added some shine to Kate’s black sweater. Pearls have been a sign of mourning ...

1 Auburn on Saturday night. The No. 7 Vols (17-2) face the No. 1 Tigers (17-1) and coach Bruce Pearl, who coached Tennessee from 2005-11. Pearl, of course, has turned around the Auburn basketball ...

For Kate Middleton’s second royal engagement of 2025, she wore a meaningful piece of jewelry: The Princess of Wales chose to wear a pair of pearl earrings that belonged to the late Queen Elizabeth.

Prime Minister Modi celebrated India's space achievements during his 'Mann Ki Baat' address, highlighting ISRO's 100th rocket launch and other milestones. He also announced that inspiring women ...

For example, look at what happens when you try to Tweet a zero-width space (U+200B) on Twitter: Although this is not a malicious error, and typical users aren't Tweeting weird unicode, an "internal ...