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2. Mikimoto Pearl Island - Wikipedia

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   Mikimoto Pearl Island (ミキモト真珠島, Mikimoto-Shinju-Jima) is a small island in Ise Bay, offshore Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan. The island is known as the birthplace of cultured pearl aquaculture . The island is owned by Mikimoto Pearl Museum Co., Ltd. (株式会社ミキモト真珠島, Kabushiki-Gaisha-Mikimoto-Shinju-Jima), which ...

3. Kokichi Mikimoto - Wikipedia

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   Kokichi Mikimoto. Kokichi Mikimoto ( Japanese: 御木本 幸吉, Hepburn: Mikimoto Kōkichi, 25 January 1858 – 21 September 1954) was a Japanese entrepreneur who is credited with creating the first cultured pearl and subsequently starting the cultured pearl industry with the establishment of his luxury pearl company Mikimoto. [1] [2]

4. Jewels of Diana, Princess of Wales - Wikipedia

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   Jewels of Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana wearing a pearl necklace and pearl earrings, featuring double wire of gold with diamonds and four equidistant knots, during a visit to Washington, D.C. in June 1997. Diana, Princess of Wales, owned a collection of jewels both as a member of the British royal family and as a private individual.

5. Ama (diving) - Wikipedia

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   However, Mikimoto Kōkichi's discovery and production of the cultured pearl in 1893 produced a great demand for ama. He established the Mikimoto Pearl Island in Toba and used the ama 's findings to grow his business internationally. Nowadays, the pearl-diving ama are viewed as a tourist attraction at Mikimoto Pearl Island.

6. Pearl - Wikipedia

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   Georgian seed pearl gold ring. A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids. Just like the shell of a mollusk, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate (mainly aragonite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite) [3] in minute ...

7. Silver and bronze are the favorite Olympic colors for red ...

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   The favorite colors for the red, white and blue at the Olympic swimming pool are silver and bronze. Through four days at La Defense Arena, the mighty U.S. team has won a bunch of medals — 15 in ...