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3 unusual facts about Oyster


Anheuser–Busch Coastal Research Center

The Anheuser–Busch Coastal Research Center is a biological field station located in Oyster, Virginia that is operated by the University of Virginia.

Gospel Oak to Barking Line

TfL took full control in November 2007 introducing improved late night and weekend services as well as staff, ticket machines and Oyster equipment at all stations.

Sindo County

Oysters are gathered in abundance, and there are numerous fish resources as well.


Aboriginal Tasmanian

Little is known of their seasonal movements although it is believed that four of the five bands moved through Oyster Bay territory along the Derwent River to reach their coastal camps near Pitt Water.

Agua Blanca, Oaxaca

Locals using both lines and nets catch Yellowtail amberjack, Skipjack tuna, and agujon off the beach, and the rocky shoreline is also popular for oyster divers and lobster fisherman.

Allen Lanier

In addition to his work with Blue Öyster Cult, he also contributed to music by Patti Smith, Jim Carroll, The Dictators and The Clash, among others.

April Macie

She has appeared on Showtime in the documentary, I Am Comic which premiered at the 2010 Slamdance Film Festival and in the stand-up special Vegas Is My Oyster premiering August 5.

Aquamarine Power

The Oyster concept originated from studies conducted in 2003 by the wave power research team at Queen's University, Belfast, led by Professor Trevor Whittaker.

Automatic watch

The Rolex Watch Company improved Harwood's design in 1930 and used it as the basis for the Rolex Oyster Perpetual, in which the centrally mounted semi-circular weight could rotate through a full 360° rather than the 300° of the 'bumper' winder.

Automobile Alley

Today there is a new push of development in the area as well as nearby Midtown that began with the relocation of the historic, upscale Colcord Oyster Bar to an A-Alley storefront from the renovated Colcord Building in the Central Business District.

Bimbo Jet

The song was also heard in four of the seven Police Academy films starting from the first film up until Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol as the tango song in The Blue Oyster Bar scenes.

Brightlingsea

Brightlingsea was for many years twinned with French oyster fishery port Marennes, Charente-Maritime, but the relationship fell into disuse.

Canada Bay

Imprisoned at Longbottom Stockade (which was located at what is now Concord Oval), the convicts broke stone for the construction of Parramatta Road and collected oyster shells for making lime.

Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science

Research expanded into developing hatchery culture techniques, initially on the native oyster, and subsequently, in the 1960s, on the Pacific oyster, work which now forms the basis of the UK bivalve cultivation industry.

Cold-Food Powder

Based upon numerous hanshisan recipes, Wagner's (1973:111-113) "Das Rezept des Ho Yen" lists 13 ingredients: First, 2.5 liang (兩 "tael") of six ingredients: zhongru (鐘乳 "stalactite"), baishiying (白石英 "milky quartz"), haige (海蛤 "oyster shell"), zishiying (紫石英 "amethyst"), fangfeng (防風 "Saposhnikovia divaricata"), and gualou (栝樓 "Trichosanthes kirilowii fruit").

Collect Pond

The pond, fed by an underground spring, was located in a valley, with Bayard Mount (at 110 feet, the tallest hill in lower Manhattan) to the northeast and Kalck Hoek (Dutch for Chalk Point, named for the numerous oyster shell middens left by the indigenous Native American inhabitants) to the west.

Dan and Louis Oyster Bar

Louis was the son of Meinert Wachsmuth, a Danish immigrant who had farmed his own oyster beds on Yaquina Bay.

Desmond Briscoe

Along with Daphne Oram, he worked on the BBC Radio production of Samuel Beckett’s All That Fall (Tx:13 January 1957), Giles Cooper's The Disagreeable Oyster (Tx:15 August 1957), and Frederick Bradnum's Private Dreams and Public Nightmares (Tx:7 October 1957).

Drakes Estero

Conservationists, including L. Martin Griffin, Jr. and famed oceanographer Sylvia Earle have called for an end to the ongoing oyster farming in the estero.

Erie County Field House

It was also home to many great concerts of the day, including Alice Cooper, Rush, Heart, Kansas, AC/DC, Van Halen, Black Sabbath, Nazareth, Molly Hatchet, Journey, Kiss, Ted Nugent, Judas Priest, Blue Oyster Cult, Foghat, Barry Manilow, The Bay City Rollers, The Carpenters, Cheap Trick, Peter Frampton, Tom Jones, Johnny Cash, and Santana.

Fahamore

In the winter there is a managed fishery in Tralee Bay for the European oyster (Ostrea edulis).

Family of the Year

The band has been a mainstay of summer festivals, including LollapaloozaSummerfest, Downsview, BottleRock Napa Valley, Guinness Oyster & Music Festival, Launch SacramentoMariposa Folk Festival, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and others.

Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Branch Railway

The Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Branch Railway (or Far Tottering and Oyster Creek Railway) was a narrow gauge railway created by Rowland Emett.

Greensulate

The mix is used as a base for the growth of the oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus.

History of women's cricket

The founding mother of women's cricket in Australia was the young Tasmanian, Lily Poulett-Harris, who captained the Oyster Cove team in the league she created in 1894.

John Cornwall, 1st Baron Fanhope

He profited greatly from the ransoms of prisoners, and used the spoils to build Ampthill Castle, and to buy Oyster Hill Manor from the Mayor of London, William Walworth.

Leonora Moore

Twitch Film made note of Moore's performance in The Taiwan Oyster, and wrote that the onscreen chemistry between Billy Harvey and Leonora Moore "is at times breathtaking".

Locmariaquer

Today, Locmariaquérois oyster farmers are cultivating Pacific oysters in the Gulf and River St Philibert.

Mangrove oyster

Sir Walter Raleigh, as part of an expedition to Guyana, famously encountered the mangrove oyster near Pitch Lake during his stopover in Trinidad.

O. fenestrata

Ocenebra fenestrata, the fenestrate oyster drill, a sea snail species in the genus Ocenebra found in South Africa

OnePulse

No PIN is required for contactless transactions, providing a similar customer experience to Oyster.

Oyster buy-boat

A few of them were adapted for use in the Chesapeake Bay Menhaden fishery during the 1970s and 80s but have since been retired, and some were used to haul seed oysters to replenish oyster reefs in Virginia and Maryland into the early 2000s.

Oyster Farmer

Oyster Farmer is a 2004 Australian romantic comedy / drama film about a young man who runs away to the Hawkesbury River and gets a job with eighth generation oyster farmers.

Oyster River Cooperative School District

Oyster River Cooperative School District (ORCSD) is a public school district in Durham, New Hampshire, United States, serving the towns of Durham, Lee, and Madbury, Durham is home to the main campus of the University of New Hampshire.

Oyster Rock lighthouse

The Oyster Rock lighthouse is located in Karwar, Karnataka, India, on one of the islands located close to Karwar, Oyster Rock.

Paula's Party

Almost all of Paula's family have appeared on the show: sons Jamie Deen and Bobby Deen, husband Michael Groover, daughter-in-law Brooke Deen, grandson Jack Deen, brother Bubba Hiers (owner of Uncle Bubba's Oyster House), and ex-husband Jimmy Deen.

Port Norris, New Jersey

The oystering industry reached its peak in 1955, declining by 1957 due to oyster pathogen Haplosporidium nelsoni (MSX) which killed 90% of the oysters.

Port Royal, South Carolina

Port Royal also hosts an annual soft shell crab festival in late April and a community oyster roast in late October.

Raw bar

Raw bars serve a selection of oysters and quahogs, and sometimes supplement the menu with cooked versions of the same seafoods such as clam chowder, oyster stew, and steamers.

Rhodes, New South Wales

There is a health-based ban in Sydney Harbour (including the Parramatta River and Homebush and Brays Bays near Rhodes) on the taking of all intertidal organisms such as oysters and pipis.

Scolymus hispanicus

Scolymus hispanicus (common golden thistle or Spanish oyster thistle) is a flowering plant in the genus Scolymus in the family Asteraceae, native to southern and western Europe, north to northwestern France.

Stansbury, South Australia

The town was originally known as Oyster Bay, although it was officially proclaimed Stansbury in 1873 by Governor Anthony Musgrave, in honour of a friend.

Stirling Iron Works

The chain was instrumental in the discovery of Benedict Arnold, when Peter Townsend's cousin, Sally Townsend, whose brother Robert was a member of Gen George Washington's Culper Ring of spies, allegedly intercepted information at the family home in Oyster Bay, Long Island which occupied by British officers.

Tamogitake

Pleurotus citrinopileatus, also known as the Golden Oyster Mushroom

Tiostrea chilensis

In New Zealand, they are a prized delicacy, and harvested from March to August from the Foveaux Strait oyster fishery based around the town of Bluff (hence the local name).

Tred Avon River

Maryland governor Martin O'Malley sought to revive the river's oyster beds through citizen participation by initiating the "Marylanders Grow Oysters" project in September 2008, which encourages waterfront property owners to grow oysters from their piers using cages; after a 9- to 12-month growing period, the oysters are moved to a protected sanctuary in the Tred Avon.

Wherstead

In those days, however, oysters were still found in Orwell waters, and the name "Oyster Ridge" had not been corrupted to the name of the exotic bird whose effigy now adorns the swinging signboard of the roadside tavern.


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