Pearls are formed when an irritant, such as a grain of sand, are introduced into mollusks and calcium carbonate encapsulates the irritant in gradually expanding layers.
Edited: The domino I was playing off seems to have disappeared.
George Clooney is one of the closest living relatives of Abraham Lincoln (he’s a descendant of Lincoln’s aunt), whose wife often wore seed pearl jewelry.
weaving the two threads- please don’t play off weaving
Illinois may be known as the “Land of Lincoln,” but Abraham Lincoln was actually born in the state of Kentucky.
As did mine…you gotta be quick in this thread!
Kentucky Woman, written by Neil Diamond, was a hit for Deep Purple.
Neil Diamond wrote the Monkees hit I’M A BELIEVER and the soundtrack for JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL.
Stanley Livingston was the director of the zoo where Tennessee Tuxedo lived.
Henry Morton Stanley, most famous for finding “Dr. Livingstone, I presume”, was a Brit but he fought on both sides during the U.S. Civil War.
The Fighting Fantasy game book series, created by Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, sold more than 14 million copies worldwide.
Jackson Pollock was born in Cody, Wyoming.
And playing back to my previous domino: The Fighting Fantasy game book Robot Commando was written by Steve Jackson, the American game designer and founder of Steve Jackson Games, who is not the same person as the British Steve Jackson, who co-created the Fighting Fantasy game book series and co-wrote Warlock of Firetop Mountain.
Mountain was a rock band whose biggest hit was “Mississippi Queen.”
Queen was a rock band fronted by Freddy Mercury.
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Freddie Mercury was born on the island of Zanzibar.
The members of the rock band “Queen” all had or have college degrees or beyond: a First Class Honours Degree in electronics (Deacon), a Diploma in Art and Graphic Design (Mercury), a Biology Degree (Taylor), and a PhD in Astrophysics (May).
First Class is a one-hit wonder- Beach Baby
Roger Taylor and Phil Collins were both residents of Dersingham, in the English county of Norfolk.
Both Queen and Duran Duran had drummers named Roger Taylor.
Duran Duran took their name from a character in the movie Barbarella, starring Jane Fonda, who was a babe in those days and probably looked great at the beach.
Trying to pull things back together again.