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The remora ( / ˈrɛmərə / ), sometimes called suckerfish or sharksucker, is any of a family ( Echeneidae) of ray-finned fish in the order Carangiformes. [4] Depending on species, they grow to 30–110 cm (12–43 in) long. Their distinctive first dorsal fins take the form of a modified oval, sucker-like organ with slat-like structures that ...
The eruption of Mount Pelée on May 8, 1902 generated a pyroclastic flows, also known as nuées ardentes ( Fr: burning clouds) cloud famous for having destroyed in a few minutes the town of Saint-Pierre, Martinique, at the time the administrative and economic capital of Martinique. During this eruption, many boats were in the bay of Saint-Pierre.
The Monterey Clipper is a fishing boat common to the San Francisco Bay Area, the Monterey Bay Area and east to the Sacramento delta. [1] [2] Known variously as a Monterey Hull, Putt-putt, Silena boat, and Lampra boat, the Monterey Clipper's history has swung with the fortunes of the local fish industry and the paces of industrialization.
A freshwater aquarium with plants and various tropical fish. An aquarium ( pl.: aquariums or aquaria) is a vivarium of any size having at least one transparent side in which aquatic plants or animals are kept and displayed. Fishkeepers use aquaria to keep fish, invertebrates, amphibians, aquatic reptiles, such as turtles, and aquatic plants.
Scullery. A scullery is a room in a house, traditionally used for washing up dishes and laundering clothes, or as an overflow kitchen. Tasks performed in the scullery include cleaning dishes and cooking utensils (or storing them), occasional kitchen work, ironing, boiling water for cooking or bathing, and soaking and washing clothes.
He became so happy that he beat the wooden fish regularly. After a few years the monk had got back the lost scriptures he had lost to the flood from the mouth of the wooden fish. Usage A Korean monk playing a mogeo Traditional versions. The original type of wooden fish is in the shape of a dragon-fish hybrid creature.
Pontederia crassipes (formerly Eichhornia crassipes ), commonly known as common water hyacinth, is an aquatic plant native to South America, naturalized throughout the world, and often invasive outside its native range. [1] [2] [3] It is the sole species of the subgenus Oshunae within the genus Pontederia. [4]
Chokes to death on the rare fish, possibly murdered by either his battered wife or a guest on his yacht he offended earlier that night. Bond throws the body overboard. Thunderball: Emilio Largo: Blackmail the western world with two stolen atomic bombs. Bond discovers the location of the bombs. Shot in the neck with a speargun by his mistress ...
Dave Grossman. Dave Grossman at the Comic-Con 2007. Occupation (s) Video game designer, programmer. Dave Grossman is an American game programmer and game designer, most known for his work at Telltale Games and early work at LucasArts. He has also written several children's books, and a book of "guy poetry" called Ode to the Stuff in the Sink. [1]
Danube is an Old European river name derived from the Celtic ' danu ' or ' don ' [17] (both Celtic gods), which itself derived from the Proto-Indo-European *deh₂nu. Other European river names from the same root include the Dunaj, Dzvina/ Daugava, Don, Donets, Dnieper, Dniestr, Dysna and Tana/Deatnu. In Rigvedic Sanskrit, danu (दनु ...