Despite criticism of mimicking Pearl Jam and other alternative rock acts, only seven months after its release, American Standard achieved platinum status.

As at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese achieved complete tactical surprise.

In 1997, Lin achieved popularity as the beloved Princess Ziwei in the series Princess Pearl, appealing to large audiences in mainland China, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Southeast Asia.

Episodes of this series achieved higher ratings than the 2005 UEFA Cup Final and the film Pearl Harbor.

In addition to Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, and the other popular rock bands of the day, the Planet played a number of local Detroit acts that never achieved major national stardom, such as the Suicide Machines and Charm Farm, as well as some non-mainstream dance and ambient artists such as Vanessa Daou.

In the late 1980s Pearl joined Love / Hate, which achieved notoriety for performances as the house band at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood.

While in 2006 Rolling Stone writer Brian Hiatt described Pearl Jam as having " spent much of the past decade deliberately tearing apart their own fame ," he noted the band developed a loyal concert following akin to that of the Grateful Dead.

Screaming Trees rose to fame as part of the grunge movement of the early 1990s, along with bands such as Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Soundgarden and was one of the most successful underground music acts of the 1990s.

Hartnett has since gone on to further fame for his roles in films such as Pearl Harbor, Black Hawk Down, 40 Days and 40 Nights and 30 Days of Night, and has starred for a variety of well-known directors such as Ridley Scott, Brian De Palma, Robert Rodriguez, Tran Anh Hung, Roland Joffé and Michael Bay.

Pearl Jam rocketed to fame with its debut album Ten and is still active today.

Announcers like Livy Wijemanne, Vernon Corea, Pearl Ondaatje, Tim Horshington, Greg Roskowski, Jimmy Bharucha, Mil Sansoni, Eardley Peiris, Shirley Perera, Bob Harvie, Christopher Greet, Prosper Fernando, Ameen Sayani ( of Binaca Geetmala fame ), Karunaratne Abeysekera, S. P. Mylvaganam ( the first Tamil Announcer on the Commercial Service ) were hugely popular across South Asia.

One of B & O's claims to fame is that the band Pearl Jam conceived of their name while at this coffeehouse.

Radio Ceylon has produced some of the finest announcers of South Asia among them: Livy Wijemanne, Vernon Corea, Pearl Ondaatje, Tim Horshington, Greg Roskowski, Jimmy Bharucha, Mil Sansoni, Eardley Peiris, Shirley Perera, Bob Harvie, B. H. Abdul Hameed, Claude Selveratnam, Christopher Greet, Prosper Fernando, Tony de Costa, Ameen Sayani ( of Binaca Geetmala fame ), S. P. Mylvaganam ( the first Tamil Announcer on the Commercial Service ), Thevis Guruge, H. M. Gunasekera, A. W. Dharmapala, Karunaratne Abeysekera, Chitrananda Abeysekera, Kailayar Sellanainar Sivakumaran, Mervyn Jayasuriya, Vijaya Corea, Elmo Fernando, Eric Fernando, Nihal Bhareti Leon Belleth and V Sundharalingam.

The album was produced by Adam Kasper in Seattle's Studio Litho ( owned by Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam fame ), and was released in March 1998.

* Iridescent, Pearl, and Interference Acrylic Colors combine conventional pigments with powdered mica ( aluminum silicate ) or powdered bronze to achieve complex effects.

Some place names have become synonymous with the battles that took place there, such as the Passchendaele, Pearl Harbor, the Alamo, Thermopylae, or Waterloo.

After World War II, the generals of the newly-formed U. S. Air Force propounded a new doctrine: that strategic bombing, particularly with nuclear weapons, was the sole decisive element necessary to win any future war ; and was therefore the sole means necessary to deter an adversary from launching a Pearl Harbor like surprise attack or war against the United States.

The Pearl of Great Price is a selection of material produced by Joseph Smith, Jr. and deals with many significant aspects of the faith and doctrine of the Church.

However, Japan reacted by an attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, and the United States was at war with Japan, Germany, and Italy.

This task force was used with devastating effect during the Pearl Harbor Attack.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Eisenhower was assigned to the General Staff in Washington, where he served until June 1942 with responsibility for creating the major war plans to defeat Japan and Germany.

These happen concurrently with the Attack on Pearl Harbor, which was on December 7 in the United States.

During this period of relative inactivity he paid a flying visit to Pearl Harbor, where he was not impressed with the poor state of readiness.

Major air combat during the war in the Pacific began with the entry of the Western Allies following Japan's attack against Pearl Harbor.

She was the daughter of citrus fruit magnate John A. Snively, who held extensive properties both in Winter Haven and in Waycross ; Parsons ' father was a famous World War II flying ace, decorated with the Air Medal, who was present at the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.

When Minnie Pearl joined the cast, they had a larger classroom scene with, at first, real children as the students, but would later return to the cast members playing children, with Minnie still as the teacher.

* The Post Office: Minnie Pearl and Grandpa Jones ran the post office who often dealt with ( mostly ) unhappy customers.

Location of Hong Kong with respect to the Pearl River Delta

Ferry services link the airport with several piers in Pearl River Delta, where immigrations and customs are exempted.

Nicknamed the " Pearl of the Antilles ," it became the richest and most prosperous colony in the West Indies, with a slave society based on sugar cane production when demand for sugar was high in Europe.

* TurboJET service, which speeds passengers across the Pearl River Delta between Hong Kong and Macau in less than an hour, with an average speed of 45 knots ( 83 km / h ), mainly using Boeing's Jetfoil.

After spending a little more than a year in jail, he was released, along with other Congress prisoners, three days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

As a reward for Guanyin saving his son, the Dragon King sent his granddaughter, a girl called Longnü (" dragon girl "), to present Guanyin with the Pearl of Light.

Guanyin accepted her offer with just one request: that Longnü be the new owner of the Pearl of Light.

Longnü is seen either holding a bowl or an ingot, which represents the Pearl of Light, whereas Shancai is seen with palms joined and knees slightly bent to show that he was once crippled.

The Portuguese under Jorge Álvares landed at Lintin Island in the Pearl River Delta of China in 1513 with a hired junk sailing from Portuguese Malacca.

* 1856 – The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River.

The Parable of the Hidden Treasure ( left ) paired with the Parable of the Pearl ( right ) on a stained glass window in Scots ' Church, Melbourne.

In the Pearl of Great Price's section containing part of Joseph Smith's translation of the Bible's book of Moses, it refers to " a Book of Remembrance ", written in the language of Adam.

The church has an open canon which includes four scriptural texts: the Bible ( both Old and New Testaments ), the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Pearl of Great Price.

* The Pearl of Great Price ( containing the Book of Moses, the Book of Abraham, Joseph Smith-Matthew and Joseph Smith-History )

: Year One: Old Testament ( also includes some coverage of related topics in the Book of Moses and Book of Abraham from the Pearl of Great Price )

* Official Edition of the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price ( Triple Combination ): complete text in PDF, including footnotes, chapter headings and supplemental material.

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ), The Doctrine and Covenants of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints stands alongside the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and The Pearl of Great Price as holy scripture.

While chivalric romances abound, particularly notable literary portrayals of knighthood include Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier, and Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, as well as Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d ' Arthur and other Arthurian tales ( Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, the Pearl Poet's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, etc.

Mormons have a scriptural canon consisting of the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and a collection of revelations and writings by Joseph Smith known as the Doctrine and Covenants and Pearl of Great Price.

The book, written in 1991, was chosen in 1998 by Nancy Pearl, the then Director of the Washington Center for the Book at the Seattle Public Library, and Chris Higashi, the current Program Manager, to be the first selection for " If All Seattle Read the Same Book ", a program that has continued in the Seattle community and at many other public libraries around the country.

Pearl Harbor ( Ballantine's Illustrated History of World War II, Battle Book, No. 10 ).

EIAS has been used in numerous film and television productions such as Piranha 3D, Alien Trespass, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Daddy Day Care, K-19: The Widowmaker, Gangs of New York, Austin Powers: Goldmember, Men In Black II, The Bourne Identity, Behind Enemy Lines, Time Machine, Ticker, JAG-Pilot Episode, Spawn, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, Galaxy Quest, Mission to Mars, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, Titan A. E., U-571, Dinosaur, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Terminator 2: Judgement Day-DVD Intro, Jungle Book 2, American President, Sleepers, Star Wars Special Edition, Empire Strikes Back Special Edition, Return of Jedi Special Edition, Bicentennial Man, Vertical Limit, Elf, Blade Trinity, and Lost In Space.

( In " Women on the Move ", edited by Pearl Andre, 47-50: Book produced for the International Women's Year for North Dakota Democratic-NPL Women, 1975 ).

The Book of Abraham was canonized in 1880 by the LDS church, and it remains an important part of the larger scriptural work, The Pearl of Great Price.

Joseph Smith — Matthew and the Book of Moses, containing translations and revelatory expansions of Matthew 24 and Genesis 1-7 respectively and contained in the LDS Pearl of Great Price, are portions of the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible that the LDS Church has canonized as part of its standard works.

The Church of Christ ( Temple Lot ) rejects the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price, as well as Joseph Smith's Inspired Version of the Bible, preferring to use only the King James Bible and the Book of Mormon as doctrinal standards.

Also, like their Temple Lot cousins, the church rejects the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price, as well as Joseph Smith's Inspired Version of the Bible, preferring to use only the King James Bible and the Record of the Nephites ( their name for the Book of Mormon ) as standards.

The Pearl of Great Price is not part of Cutlerite Scripture, save that portion of it that forms a portion of the Inspired Version of the Bible ( the Book of Moses and Joseph Smith-Matthew ).

There has been an exegetical trend during the last several decades to draw endless parallels to text from the ancient Near East and beyond in an attempt to validate the writings in the Book of Mormon and Pearl of Great Price.

The publication was the first to include such significant Latter Day Saint documents as The Wentworth Letter, a construction of the King Follett Discourse, the Book of Abraham ( which was later canonized in 1880 by the LDS Church as part of their Pearl of Great Price ), the personal history of Joseph Smith, Jr., and the announcement of the assassination of Joseph and Hyrum Smith.

The city is also the setting of the children's novel The Black Pearl ( 1967 ) by Scott O ' Dell, chosen as a Newbery Honor Book in 1968.

In her thirty-year career, Agnes Driscoll broke Japanese Navy manual codes -- the Red Book Code in the 1920s, and the Blue Book Code in 1930, and in 1940 she made critical inroads into JN-25, the Japanese fleet's operational code, which the U. S. Navy exploited after the attack on Pearl Harbor for the rest of the Pacific War.