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3 unusual facts about Crab


AS-90

Haubicoarmata "Krab" - (eng. Howitzer-cannon Crab) Licensed "Braveheart" turret on a Polish chassis UPG, with modern "Azalia" BMS.

Crab-eating fox

Territorialism was noticed during the dry time; during rainy seasons, when there is more food, they pay less attention to territory (Nowak, 1999).

South Park Is Gay!

The five suddenly gravely turn to the others and their human bodies burst open, revealing that they are an ancient race of "Crab People".


Apple Day

Whittington, near Lichfield in Staffordshire, the home of the John Downie crab apple, holds an annual apple day fair on the third Saturday in October, with tastings, juicing, games and apple produce.

Bokeo Province

Other than the gibbons the wild life in the reserve reported are: Great Barbet (Megalaima virens); Grey-headed Parakeet (Psittacula finschii); grey leaf monkeys (Semnopithecus); Crab-eating Mongoose (Herpestes urva), tiger (Panthera tigris); smaller cats; Dhole (Cuon alpinus), bears (two types); otters; sambar (Cervus unicolor); and wild cattle (Gaur).

Brit Andresen

Most recently, in February 2011, Andresen in collaboration with Sir Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham of Crab Studio, has won the design competition for the new Soheil Abedian School of Architecture at Bond University, Queensland.

Buccinum baeri

The hermit crab Pagurus hirsutiusculus (Dana, 1851) can be found in empty shells of Baer's Buccinum.

Bull ray

The bull ray feeds on various invertebrates including crabs, hermit crabs, squids, prawns, gastropod molluscs and bivalve molluscs.

Bún riêu

In this dish, various freshwater paddy crabs are used, including the brown paddy crab found in rice paddies in Vietnam.

Butterfly crab

Cryptolithodes typicus, commonly known as the butterfly crab, is a species of lithodid crustacean native to coastal regions of the northeastern Pacific Ocean, ranging from Amchitka Island, Alaska to Santa Rosa Island, California.

C. tricolor

Clibanarius tricolor, a hermit crab species found in shallow water of the Caribbean Sea

California roll

Sometimes crab salad is substituted for the crab stick, and often the outer layer of rice (in an inside-out roll) is sprinkled with toasted sesame seeds, tobiko or masago.

Cavalry Tank Museum, Ahmednagar

Amongst the exhibits are British Valentine, Japanese type 95 HA-GO and Tyand-97 Chi- Ha, Sherman Crab flail tank, M-47 Patton Centurion Mark ll, German Panzer and pride of India Vijayanta.

Chilli crab

In September 2009, Ng Yen Yen, Malaysia's Tourism Minister, controversially claimed that, among other dishes, that "Chilli crab is Malaysian", accusing "other countries" of "hijacking our food".

Crab cake

Maryland Crab Cakes are the national food of The Preakness Stakes, the second jewel of the United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing, a horse race that is run on the third Saturday of May each year.

In the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, the endemic Dungeness Crab is a popular ingredient for crab cakes, and the cakes are prepared at many well-established restaurants throughout the region.

Crab fisheries

Fishing for opilio (and rarely bairdi) crab has been the focus of the second half of all four seasons of Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel.

Crab Lake, Minnesota

Crab Lake is an unorganized territory in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States; located north of Eagles Nest Township, and west of Morse Township.

Crab Pulsar

The Crab Pulsar was the first pulsar for which the spin-down limit was broken using several months of data of the LIGO observatory.

Dark-finger coral crab

Atergatis subdentatus (de Haan, 1835), also known as the Red reef crab

David Gatten

To produce What the Water Said, Nos.1-3, Gatten placed unexposed rolls of film in crab traps in the Atlantic Ocean off the South Carolina coast.

Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm

Lead your crew in the strategic search for King and Opilio Crab while battling to secure your catch and livelihood before other captains and crews get to the crab first.

Dharshan Munidasa

In December 2011, Munidasa in collaboration with close friends, Sri Lankan Cricketing Legends Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara opened the Ministry of Crab, housed in the recently refurbished 400-year-old ‘Old Dutch Hospital’ Shopping Precinct.

Echinoderm

Echinoderms form part of the diet of many organisms such as bony fish, sharks, eider ducks, gulls, crabs, gastropod molluscs, sea otters, Arctic foxes and humans.

Explosive Ordnance Disposal Badge

The "crab", as it is commonly known, is the only joint service badge and can only be earned upon successful completion of the 38 week course at the Naval School of Explosive Ordnance Disposal located at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.

Foreland

In the Crab & Lobster Inn are photographs of the many shipwrecks, which included the submarine HMS Alliance, now a museum ship at Gosport and the First World War troopship the S.S. Mehndi carrying troops from South Africa, with great loss of life.

Greasy pole

In the UK, contests to climb a greasy pole were held at numerous fairs including the Crab Fair in Egremont, Cumbria where the contest continues to this day - alongside the annual Gurning World Championships see Gurn.

Hector Lombana

Famous examples include 'El Cangrejo' (The Crab), 'Los Zapatos Viejos' (Old Shoes), 'India Catalina', el 'Sendero Yuma' (Path of the Yuma), 'Monumento a la Solidaridad' (Monument to Solidarity), among others.

Hergé's Adventures of Tintin

Larry Harmon - Tintin, Professor Calculus (Objective Moon and The Crab With the Golden Claws)

Hoko River Formation

Crab fossils are common in the formation, while rare Nautilus aff.

Krusty Krab

The Krusty Krab has appeared in Robot Chicken in its episode "Major League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" where the Krusty Krab serves Krabby Patties which are made of crab, calimari rings, and chicken of the sea salad which is tuna.

Long Marston, Warwickshire

William Shakespeare is said to have joined a party of Stratford folk which set itself to outdrink a drinking club at Bidford­-on-Avon, and as a result of his labours in that regard to have fallen asleep under the crab tree of which a descendant is still called Shakespeare's tree.

Matt Robshaw

Robshaw's notable work includes the cryptanalysis of a number of cryptographic primitives, including the extension of linear cryptanalysis to use multiple approximations, and the design of the block ciphers Crab and RC6.

Mississippi River Delta

It is also a commercially significant region, supporting the economy of New Orleans with significant shipping traffic, providing 16 to 18% of the oil supply in the U.S., and providing 16% of the fisheries harvest in the U.S., including shrimp, crabs, and crayfish.

P. bakeri

Paguristes bakeri, Holmes, 1900, a hermit crab species in the genus Paguristes

Pebworth

William Shakespeare is said to have joined a party of Stratford folk which set itself to outdrink a drinking club at Bidford­-on-Avon, and as a result of his labours in that regard to have fallen asleep under the crab tree of which a descendant is still called Shakespeare's Tree.

Photobacterium phosphoreum

Dr. Hodgins later used shrimp and crab legs bearing the bacteria to spell out "Be My Love" as a message to Angela Montenegro.

Pinnotheridae

Pea crabs are tiny soft-bodied crabs that live commensally in the mantles of certain bivalve molluscs (and the occasional large gastropod mollusc species in genera such as Strombus and Haliotis).

Raúl Sendic

Born in a rural area, near the village of Juan Jose Castro, in the Flores Department, Sendic worked with his father as a peasant on a crab apple farm until he finished high school and left his home to study in Montevideo.

Roman De Salvo

His 2003 work Crab Carillon was installed on a bridge spanning the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway in San Diego.

S. serrata

Scylla serrata, the mud crab or mangrove crab, an economically important crab species found in the estuaries and mangroves of Africa, Australia and Asia

Sainte-Thérèse-de-Gaspé, Quebec

Its factories, employing hundreds of people, process snow crab, rock crab, and lobster.

Sally Lightfoot

Percnon gibbesi, a marine crab found in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and in the Mediterranean Sea

Shaktoolik, Alaska

Fish, crab, moose, beluga whale, caribou, seal, rabbit, geese, cranes, ducks, ptarmigan, (including these eggs) berries, greens, and roots are also primary subsistence food sources.

Sig Hansen

In 2005 for King Crab and 2006 for Opilio The Northwestern won the final derby seasons taking home the titles for both the highest poundage caught and the highest dollars earned between the featured boats in the Deadliest Catch.

Someday Came Suddenly

The video is infamous for starting the Internet meme "crabcore", which shows one of the band members squatting in a "crab-like" stance whilst nodding his head and playing the guitar.

The Cruise of the Alerte

Arthur Ransome used the descriptions from Knight's book as a basis for Crab Island in his book Peter Duck, except that he set the island further north in the Caribbean Sea.

X. silvestrii

Xysticus silvestrii, Simon, 1905, a crab spider species in the genus Xysticus found in Argentina


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