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2 unusual facts about Gaster


Gaster

The gaster is the bulbous posterior portion of the metasoma found in Apocrita Hymenoptera (bees, wasps and ants).

Niederwil, Aargau

The rights to low justice were held by Schänis Abbey in Gaster.


25551 Drewhall

It is named after Drew Hall, a Stanford University student who won the IEEE "Change the World" competition in 2009 with Richard Gaster.

25552 Gaster

It is named after Richard Gaster, a Stanford University student who won the IEEE "Change the World" competition in 2009 with Drew Hall.

Earth Rocker

Drummer J.P. Gaster revealed that this ferocity may be attributed to Clutch's recent touring experience with Motörhead and Thin Lizzy.

Metasoma

In apocritan Hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants), the metasoma consists of the second abdominal segment (which typically forms a petiole) and those segments posterior to it, and is often called the gaster rather than referring to it as the "abdomen"; in these insects, the first abdominal segment is called the propodeum and is fused to the thorax.

Theodor Gaster

Gaster was born in England, the son of the folklorist Moses Gaster, then Chief Rabbi of the English Sephardi community, who was Romanian by birth and a well-known linguist and scholar of Judaica.


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