Saturday, January 8, 2011

Pearl of Great Price

I remember reading a book whose title escapes me, a girl who comes early to decide. And it has been demonstrated successfully in the last pages of the book, which she described as wearing a short black dress, wearing elegant pearl necklace. Pearl, seemed to show the arrival of a quiet contrast to the vulgar ostentation of diamonds.

Although the cultured pearl in the modern era spheres of common property, it uses as the queen of gems to be known for its beauty and rarity. And a number of modern beauty, including Jacqueline Kennedy and Elizabeth Taylor led, they wear on their wedding day. In fact, the ancient Greeks believed that a bride who married happiness should carry the ball a happy married life will enjoy.

The most famous moment in history when pearls were mentioned in the beginning of the romance between Cleopatra and Mark Antony. That hero of the novel, useful to be able to convince Egypt to the Roman Empire, they made a bet with Roman, she could him dinner as much as anyone in the history of mankind.

In this case, if they have wine, unclipped one of her earrings, he crashed, and when dissolved in a liquid he drank every last drop. Apparently, it was a meal that is worth millions in today's money. With regard to compliance with earrings, it was two times that were made, respectively, with earrings of the statue of Venus in the Pantheon in Rome.

In the past, pearls symbolize innocence and purity, and is suitable for the bride. At the peak of its popularity in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, royal marriages have been complete without beads. In some cases, it was not only the bride, wearing pearls, but everyone was invited to the wedding.

Although in recent years, pearls were often given as a wedding gift from the bride her parents - in the past often been linked with all kinds of mystical powers - as in the case of Jacqueline Kennedy. You should have peace and tranquility of mind and health, transport the body.

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