Pearl (disambiguation)

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Pearl may refer to the following:

Contents 1 Most frequent usage 2 Places and buildings 3 People 4 Organizations 5 Literature 6 Music and song 7 Film and television 8 Computing 9 Video games 10 Comics 11 Food and drink 12 Law 13 Medicine

[edit] Most frequent usage

• Pearl (jewelry), a round shiny object produced by molluscs and used in jewelry
• Pearl (color), a whitish iridescent color similar to the color of pearls

[edit] Places and buildings

• Pearl, Mississippi
• Pearl Harbor, the harbor in Oahu, Hawaii which was bombed by Japanese on December 7, 1941
• Qatar Pearl, an artificial island being reclaimed in Doha, Qatar
• Perlan (English: The Pearl), a landmark building in Reykjavík, Iceland
• Pearl District, Portland, Oregon

[edit] People

• Daniel Pearl, the WSJ journalist kidnapped and eventually murdered in Pakistan

[edit] Organizations

• TVB Pearl, a TV station in Hong Kong
• Pearl Brewing Company, an American brewery, established in 1881 in San Antonio, Texas
• Pearl Art and Craft Supply, a chain of retail art supply stores
• Partnership for Enhancing Agriculture in Rwanda through Linkages (PEARL), a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded project to promote agricultural improvement in Rwanda
• Pearl Musical Instrument Company, a drum manufacturing company

[edit] Literature

• Pearl (literary magazine)
• The Pearl (novel), a novel by John Steinbeck
• The Pearl (erotica), a Victorian-era erotic literature magazine
• Pearl (poem), an alliterative poem written in Middle English
• Pearl (Scarlet Letter character), the name of a main character in the novel, The Scarlet Letter
• Pearl (User Friendly character), the name of a character in the webcomic User Friendly
• Pearl, a 1985 novel by Anne Leaton

[edit] Music and song

• Pearl (album), an album by Janis Joplin
• The Pearl (album) a 1984 album by Harold Budd and Brian Eno
• Pearls (album), an album by Elkie Brooks
• Pearl Jam, an American grunge band from Seattle

[edit] Film and television

• The Pearl (film), a 1947 Mexican film based on Steinbeck's novel
• Pearl (miniseries), a 1978 television miniseries
• Pearl (TV series), a 1996-1997 sitcom starring Rhea Perlman and Malcolm McDowell
• Station 5: The Pearl, the fifth DHARMA Initiative station in the television show Lost
• Pearl Krabs, the name of a character on SpongeBob SquarePants
• Pearl (Final Fantasy), a holy-elemental magic spell in the videogame Final Fantasy VI
• Pearl, a minor character in the Japanese anime One Piece

[edit] Computing

• PEARL programming language (Process and Experiment Automation Realtime Language)
• The original name of Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language), a programming language
• The BlackBerry Pearl, Research In Motion's first venture into the consumer phone market.

[edit] Video games

• Pokémon Pearl, a Nintendo DS game of the main Pokémon RPG series.
• Pearl Fey, a character in the Capcom game Ace Attorney series.

[edit] Comics

• Pearls Before Swine (comic strip), a United Features syndicated comic strip written and illustrated by Stephan Pastis.

[edit] Food and drink

• Pearl Restaurant in Melbourne, Australia
• Pearl (see bubble tea), edible tapioca pearls (dark balls) made from the Cassava root
• Pearl Brewing Company, an American beer company now owned by Pabst

[edit] Law

• The Pearl is the name of an 1867 US Supreme Court case (72 U.S. 574) (See: List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 72)

[edit] Medicine

• "Pearl" is often used by medical and pharmaceutical professionals to mean an important or useful fact. The expression probably originated from a "pearl of wisdom", but through repeated and technical use, it has lost its connection with wisdom or edification.