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M Shed. / 51.4473; -2.5986. M Shed is a museum in Bristol, England, located on Prince's Wharf beside the Floating Harbour in a dockside transit shed formerly occupied by Bristol Industrial Museum. The museum's name is derived from the way that the port identified each of its sheds. M Shed is home to displays of 3,000 artefacts and stories ...
Lobster is fished in water between 2 and 900 metres (1 and 500 fathoms), although some lobsters live at 3,700 metres (2,000 fathoms). Cages are of plastic-coated galvanized steel or wood. A lobster fisher may tend to as many as 2,000 traps.
Starfish regeneration. Asterias rubens, known as the common sea star, is capable of extensive arm regeneration, but will perish if the central disk suffers serious damage. Starfish, or sea stars, are radially symmetrical, star-shaped organisms of the phylum Echinodermata and the class Asteroidea. [1] Aside from their distinguished shape ...
7.6 m (25 ft) Location. Headington, Oxford. The Headington Shark (proper name Untitled 1986) is a rooftop sculpture located at 2 New High Street, Headington, Oxford, England, depicting a large shark embedded head-first in the roof of a house. It was protest art, put up without permission, to be symbolic of bombs crashing into buildings.
Shedd is a surname likely derived from 'de Schedde', the descendants of John de Schedde of Edwardstone, Suffolk, England. In 1920 it was estimated that up to 70% of those with the Shedd name in the United States were descended from a Daniel Shed from Finchingfield, Essex, England. Daniel Shed arrived in Braintree, Massachusetts about 1643 and ...
The Life of Fish (Spanish: La vida de los peces) is a 2010 Chilean drama film directed by Matías Bize. The film was selected as the Chilean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards, but didn't make the final shortlist. The Life of Fish won the award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film at the 25th Goya Awards.
Ecdysis. Process of ecdysis of a cicada. Ecdysis is the moulting of the cuticle in many invertebrates of the clade Ecdysozoa. Since the cuticle of these animals typically forms a largely inelastic exoskeleton, it is shed during growth and a new, larger covering is formed. [1] The remnants of the old, empty exoskeleton are called exuviae.
Moose Mountain Dam ( 49.8911°N 103.0319°W) is an earthen dam built in 1937. It is owned and operated by the Saskatchewan Water Security Agency (WSA). [8] The building of the dam created the reservoir called Moose Mountain Lake that holds 11,535 cubic decametres (9,352 acre⋅ft) of water. The reservoir is used for irrigation, flood control ...