About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.

Abhinavagupta likens it to the string of a jeweled necklace ; while it may not be the most appealing for most people, it is the string that gives form to the necklace, allowing the jewels of the other eight rasas to be relished.

A drilled shell is also used to construct the necklace.

In Norse mythology, Brísingamen ( from Old Norse brisinga " flaming, glowing " and men " jewellery, ornament ") is the necklace of the goddess Freyja.

In any case, the necklace given to Beowulf in the story is not the Brísingamen itself ; it is only being compared to it.

Freyja is so wrathful that all the Æsir ’ s halls beneath her are shaken and the necklace Brísingamen breaks off from her neck.

Freyja's necklace Brisingamen features prominently in Betsy Tobin's novel Iceland, where the necklace is seen to have significant protective powers.

The plumage can vary in Britain from almost pure white to black, but is usually shades of brown, with a pale ' necklace ' of feathers.

He is probably best known for his three-strand faux pearl necklace worn by Barbara Bush to her husband's inaugural ball.

Freyja is the owner of the necklace Brísingamen, rides a chariot pulled by two cats, owns the boar Hildisvíni, possesses a cloak of falcon feathers, and, by her husband Óðr, is the mother of two daughters, Hnoss and Gersemi.

Then he laughed, pulled a necklace of Spanish gold from around his neck and said " Our voyage is made, lads!

The Queen of the Inch necklace is an article of jewellery made of jet found on Bute that dates from circa 2000 BC.

They discovered that the real Lex Luthor is at large having been the one who mailed Lois the Red Kryptonite necklace and that the one in jail was a robotic duplicate.

The most famous Margarita necklace that any one can see today is the one that then Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt gave to Jacqueline Kennedy when she and her husband, President John F. Kennedy paid an official visit to Venezuela.

Though millimeter size range is typically the first factor in determining a cultured pearl necklace's value, the momme weight of pearl necklace will allow the buyer to quickly determine if the necklace is properly proportioned.

Button pearls are like a slightly flattened round pearl and can also make a necklace, but are more often used in single pendants or earrings where the back half of the pearl is covered, making it look like a larger, rounder pearl.

Determining if the customer is likely to return to reclaim an item is a subjective decision, and wily customers may attempt to persuade the pawnshop owner that the item in question is important to them (" that necklace belonged to my grandmother, so I will certainly return for it "), and they will claim that they will return to recover it.

She has the necklace Brising, and she is called Vanadis.

On November 18, 2010, the Hope Diamond was unveiled and displayed at the Smithsonian in a temporary newly-designed necklace called " Embracing Hope ", created by the Harry Winston firm.

However, they slew Thingol out of greed and stole the Silmaril they had been charged to set into the necklace called Nauglamír.

Extractors use a very sharp axe to make two types of cuts on the tree: one horizontal cut around the plant, called a crown or necklace, at a height of about 2-3 times the circumference of the tree, and several vertical cuts called rulers or openings.

Here they say is dedicated a necklace given originally to Harmonia, but called the necklace of Eriphyle, because it was the bribe she took to betray her husband.

At the request of Achelous they carried the necklace and peplos of Harmonia to Delphi, and from thence they went to Epirus, where Acarnan founded the state called after him Acarnania.

In the Sörla þáttr, an Icelandic short story written by two Christian Priests in 15th century, Dvalin is the name of one of the four dwarves ( including Alfrigg, Berling and Grer ) who fashioned a necklace which was later acquired by a woman called Freyja, who is King Odin's concubine, after she agreed to spend a night with each of them.

Lord Vishnu gifted the new-born deity with a little bejeweled bell necklace, so this god is called Manikanthan Swamy.

A con artist who called herself Jeanne de Saint-Rémy de Valois conceived a plan to use the necklace to gain wealth and possibly power and royal patronage.

If a necklace includes a primary hanging feature, it is called a pendant or amulet, if the hanging feature is itself a small container, that is called a locket.

It is sometimes incorrectly called Master due to the prominence of a necklace bearing that word on the album's cover.

* the number of aperiodic necklaces ( also called Lyndon words ) that can be made by arranging beads the color of each of which is chosen from a list of colors ( One respect in which the word " necklace " may be misleading is that if one picks such a necklace up off the table and turns it over, thus reversing the roles of clockwise and counterclockwise, one gets a different necklace, counted separately, unless the necklace is symmetric under such reflections.

The dancers face is adorned with Tikka ( decorations made by hand with sandalwood paste ), Mathami or Matha Patti ( forehead ornament ), Allaka ( head piece on which the tikka hangs ), unique ear covers called Kapa in intricate shapes usually depicting a peacock ’ s feathers, an ear chain, Jhumkas ( bell shaped earrings ), a short necklace, and a longer necklace with a hanging pendant.

1328 – 1373 ), called Magnus with the necklace

The necklace is called Brosinga mene, and the name is held to be either a corruption or a misspelling of OE Breosinga mene, ON Brisingamen, Freyja's necklace.

She tells Edward a story about her and ' Jimmy ' having successfully stolen the necklace from a rich lady called Agnes Larella.

When this woman wanted to buy a golden necklace ( no name given ) forged by four dwarves ( named Dvalinn, Alfrik, Berling, and Grer ), she offered them gold and silver but they replied that they would only sell it to her if she would lie a night by each of them.

She came home afterward with the necklace and kept silent as if nothing happened.

Severe deficiency of niacin in the diet causes the disease pellagra, which is characterized by diarrhea, dermatitis, and dementia, as well as “ necklace ” lesions on the lower neck, hyperpigmentation, thickening of the skin, inflammation of the mouth and tongue, digestive disturbances, amnesia, delirium, and eventually death, if left untreated.

Achelous himself, god of that river, promised him his daughter, Callirrhoe in marriage if Alcmaeon would retrieve the necklace and clothes which Eriphyle wore when she persuaded Amphiaraus to take part in the battle.

Achelous, the god of that river, offered him his daughter Callirrhoe in marriage if Alcmaeon would retrieve the necklace and clothes that Eriphyle had worn when she persuaded Amphiaraus to take part in the battle.

That is, we connect the two ends of the string together, and regard two strings as the same necklace if we can rotate one string to obtain the second string ; in this case we will say that the two strings are friends.

Some said that Marie Antoinette refused the necklace because she did not want to wear any jewel which had been designed for another woman, especially if that woman was a courtesan disliked by the Queen.

A k-configuration in a necklace is a subset of k positions in the necklace ; two configurations are isomorphic if one can be obtained from the other by a rotation of the necklace.

For instance if an Indian was wearing a necklace or pair of buckskin gloves and another person openly admired one of these items, it was customary for the wearer to take off item and give to the admiring party.

« As the famous Spanish-Cuban composer, Joaquin Nin, who styled himself as teacher of perfect Bach and whom I used to see for this reason once said, I always refused to be shackled, even if the chain was the customary pearl necklace offered young women after marriage.

Marine Drive is also known as the Queen's Necklace because if viewed at night from an elevated point anywhere along the drive, the street lights resemble a string of pearls, forming a necklace.

They are connected by a narrow strip in Irwindale and by Whittier Narrows to give them the appearance of a necklace if viewed from above.

Hermione's Time-Turner resembles a gold hourglass pendant on a necklace ; it is unclear if all of them do.

This note states that if she doesn't have the money on her, the kidnappers will accept instead a valuable diamond necklace that they know she carries on her but it must be delivered by tomorrow.