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  • 111Pearl Aday — Infobox Person image size = 150px name=Pearl Aday birth date = 1974 nationality =American parents = Meat Loaf Leslie Aday Pearl Aday (born 1974) is an American female singer. Her most notable role is as a backing singer in Meat Loaf s (her… …

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  • 112Pearl S. Buck — Infobox Writer name = Pearl S. Buck imagesize = 175px caption = Pearl Buck, ca. 1932. birthdate = birth date|1892|6|26|mf=y birthplace = Hillsboro, West Virginia, United States deathdate = death date and age|1973|3|6|1892|6|26 deathplace = Danby …

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  • 113Mother Love Bone — This article is about the rock group. For the self titled album, see Mother Love Bone (album). Mother Love Bone Mother Love Bone, clockwise from left: Bruce Fairweather, Stone Gossard, Greg Gilmore, Jeff Ament and Andrew Wood Background… …

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  • 114Pearl Starr — Rosie Lee Reed (September 1868 ndash; 1925), better known as Pearl Starr, was an American prostitute, bordello owner and businesswoman in Arkansas, the first child of Belle Starr, the reputed Bandit Queen of the American Old West, and Jim Reed,… …

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  • 115Ground pearl — Pearl Pearl, n. [OE. perle, F. perle, LL. perla, perula, probably fr. (assumed) L. pirulo, dim. of L. pirum a pear. See {Pear}, and cf. {Purl} to mantle.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with… …

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  • 116Pearl Forrester — Infobox character colour = colour text = name = Pearl Forrester series = Mystery Science Theater 3000 caption = Mads Pearl Forrester (center), Observer (aka Brain Guy) (left), and Professor Bobo (right) first = 607 Bloodlust! last = 1013 Diabolik …

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  • 117Pearl Jam — ▪ 1995       One of the most popular rock bands in the United States, Pearl Jam not only wrote songs about perceived injustices but also, in June and July 1994, actually testified before a congressional subcommittee about such matters. For their… …

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  • 118Pearl Harbor advance-knowledge debate — The Pearl Harbor advance knowledge debate is a dispute over what, if any, advance knowledge American officials had of Japan s December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.Ever since the Japanese attack there has been debate as to how and why the… …

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  • 119Pearl, Mississippi — Infobox Settlement official name = City of Pearl settlement type = City nickname = The Pearl of the South motto = A City Creating Its Own Future imagesize = 300px image caption = Pearl City Hall; built in 1940 image mapsize = 250x200px map… …

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  • 120pearl —    ‘Ho, ho, my dainty, my little pearl! No lady loves her hound, monkey, or parakeet as I do thee.’ Thus speaks a mother to her child in The Witch of Edmonton, by Rowley, Dekker, and Ford. ‘Pearl’ has been applied to a person considered precious… …

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