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unusual facts about Seals



1967–68 NHL season

In a game at the Metropolitan Sports Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, the Oakland Seals were in town to play the North Stars and Bill Masterton led a rush into the Oakland zone.

Allan Wyon

Wyon made the episcopal seals for the archbishops of Canterbury and York; the seal for the secretary of Scotland in 1889, and the Great Seal of Ireland in 1890.

Arky Vaughan

After leaving the Seals, Vaughan bought a ranch in Eagleville, California where he retired to fish, hunt and tend cattle.

Bollinger Shipyards

These ships can also provide full mission support for Navy SEALs and other special operations forces.

Bridgman seal

A Bridgman seal, named after Percy Williams Bridgman, seals a high pressure volume by the use of a three-part mechanism.

Chilkoot Lake

The fauna found in abundance in the lake area, as one approaches along the Luktak Channel and the outlet stream from the lake, are Bald eagles, harbor seals, bears feeding on salmon and mountain goats on the hill slopes.

Chilkoot River

The aqua fauna found in abundance in the Chilkoot River, as one approaches along the Lynn Canal and the outlet stream from the Chilkoot Lake, are Bald eagles, harbor seals, bears feeding on salmon and mountain goats on the hill slopes.

Conservation of Seals Act 1970

The Conservation of Seals Act 1970 (c. 30) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Diaper Genie

The system seals diapers individually in a scented film to protect against germs and odors.

Erebus Ice Tongue

Video also depicted other Weddell seals that appeared to use the underwater caves as hiding places from predators such as the orca (or killer whale) and the leopard seal.

Erlenbach am Main

Both seals showed a crowned two-headed eagle holding a monarch’s orb in the right talon and a sword in the left.

Extreme points of Antarctica

While animal life such as penguins and seals are found all around the Antarctic coastline, the continent's only flowering plants are found on the northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula (see Antarctic flora).

First Time for Everything

#"What Were You Thinkin'" (Howell, O'Brien, Seals, Christy DiNapoli) - 3:22

Florida Seals

Former Macon Trax head coach Tommy Stewart (ice hockey) took the helm of the Seals in 2005 after the Trax ceased operations.

Fort McMurray North American League team

On March 8, 2010, the Seals announced the hiring of former Major League All-Star Bret Boone as their new manager.

Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt

Seals attributable to the 14th dynasty have been found in Middle and Upper-Egypt, then 13th dynasty territory, and as far south as Dongola, beyond the third cataract.

Gary Kurt

Kurt spent the following two seasons with the Raiders franchise, backing-up Pete Donnelly and Joe Junkin, playing alongside former Seals Brian Perry, Bobby Sheehan, Kent Douglas, Mike Laughton and Norm Ferguson.

Haptic poetry

The history of "poetic objects" may be traced back to the Dada productions of Marcel Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters, and to the surrealistic boxes of Joseph Cornell (among others), as well as Fluxus objects and editions, but an even older tradition of charms, talismans, Gnostic gems, seals, and fetishistic objects exists.

Harald Olafsson

Fortunately for historians, the seal and two of Haraldr's charters were documented about a century before their destruction by Sir Christopher Hatton (d. 1670), in his Book of Seals.

Henry William Henfrey

His major work was Numismata Cromwelliana, London, a full account of the coins, medals, and seals of The Protectorate.

Hydraulic machinery

Flare fittings, are metal to metal compression seals deformed with a cone nut and pressed into a flare mating.

Hyperspectral imaging

The SEALs from NSWDG who killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011 used this technology while conducting the raid (Operation Neptune's Spear) on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Keeper of the Seals

The title Keeper of the Seals or equivalent is used in several contexts, denoting the person entitled to keep and authorize use of the Great Seal of a given country.

Kwakwaka'wakw

Many of the marine mammals they hunted for furs and food were sea otters, walruses, seals, and whales.

Litter

Other instances where animals could be harmed by litter include broken glass lacerating the paws of dogs, cats, and other small mammals, fishing nets caught on the necks of seals and turtles, etc.

LMLK seal

LMLK seals are ancient Hebrew seals stamped on the handles of large storage jars dating from reign of King Hezekiah (circa 700 BC) discovered mostly in and around Jerusalem.

Luken Communications

In June 2009, Luken and Seals Entertainment Company LLC launched the male-oriented digital multicast channel Tuff TV.

Marcus Luttrell

The SEALs made a number of attempts to contact their combat operations center with a PRC-148 MBITR (Multi Band Inter/Intra Team Radio) and then with an Iridium Satellite Phone.

Marina Rikhvanova

The mill dumped thousands of tons of pollutants into the lake, including dioxin, which has appeared in Baikal fish and the fat of Baikal seals.

Matthew 27:65-66

The non-canonical Gospel of Peter adds far more information stating that the tomb was closed with seven wax seals.

Northern elephant seal

Elephant seals do not have a developed a system of echolocation in the manner of cetaceans, but their vibrissae, which are sensitive to vibrations, are assumed to play a role in search of food.

Olive Wyon

The daughter of Allan Wyon, Chief Engraver of Seals to Queen Victoria, she had a brother, the Rev. Allan G. Wyon, the sculptor and medalist, and two sisters, one an Anglican Deaconess and the other a Congregational Minister.

Peter Hochachka

His work included studies of enzyme adaptation to temperature and pressure, the mechanisms underlying tolerance to low oxygen levels in animals, the bioenergetics of exercise, metabolism during diving in seals, allometric scaling, and human adaptations to high-altitude hypoxia.

Polar ecology

Seals are also found in polar regions and number around 2.5 million.

Recce

SEAL Recon Rifle, a rifle used by US Navy SEALs also called the Recce Rifle

Riders in the Chariot

Other symbolism includes the mysteries of the Book of Revelation, with its Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and the Seven Seals, along with biblical warnings about blood, fire, and destruction.

Robert Spottiswood

When the Earl of Lanark, secretary of state, was apprehended in December 1643, the king gave the seals of office to Spottiswood at Oxford, and directed him to act as secretary.

Sable Island National Park Reserve

Unusual 'corkscrew' bite wounds on dead seals suggest that the Greenland shark is probably responsible for most attacks here.

Samson Dyer

Dyer applied for British citizenship six years later, and stated to the Governor, Sir John Cradock, that he was permanently employed culling seals and had prepared skins of some 24,000 seals over four seasons.

Seal of the Vice President of the United States

The earliest known reference to a vice presidential seal was in a November 6, 1846 letter from the Chief Clerk of the United States Senate, William Hickey, to a Maryland seal engraver named Edward Stabler (who had made many seals for the government, and would make one for the President a few years later).

Seals Stadium

Hall of famer Joe DiMaggio grew up in San Francisco and played for the Seals at the stadium for over three seasons; October 1932 through 1935.

Son Seals

Author Andrew Vachss was a friend of Seals, and used his influence to promote Seals' music.

SS Sagona

Sagona was primarily a sealing vessel until 1938 bringing a total of 165,599 seals from 1912 until 1938 under captains Job Knee, Jack Randell, Lewis Little and Jacob Kean.

Symbols of Kraków

Another popular symbol of the city is a stylized crowned letter K based on that found on old city seals and, most famously, on the door to the Wawel Cathedral.

Tayport

This large area of sand dunes and beach at the mouth of the Tay Estuary forms an important roosting and feeding area for huge congregations of seaduck, waders and wildfowl, as well as a haul-out area for over 2,000 both common and grey seals.

Terry Owen

He made his "Seals" in a 1–1 draw with Cambridge United in August 1972, and went on to bag 41 league goals in 199 appearances in one of the most successful periods in the club's history.

Thomas Simon

In 1645 he was appointed by the parliament joint chief engraver along with Edward Wade, and, having executed the great seal of the Commonwealth and dies for the coinage, he was promoted to be chief engraver to the mint and seals.

Thompson Memorial Library

Below the frieze of seals in the central hall hang five seventeenth-century Flemish Gobelin tapestries portraying Apuleius' romance of Cupid and Psyche.

Vanguard Cave

Carcasses of seals were brought to the cave and comparison with Neanderthal sites at Capellades in Catalonia indicate that after being hunted they were butchered in the cave.

WNCN

The WNCN Precision Weather team includes chief meteorologist Wes Hohenstein (AMS Seal of Approval; weeknights at 6:00, 7:00 and 11:00 pm), and meteorologists Alyssa Corfont (AMS and NWA Seals of Approval; Saturdays at 7:00 and weekends at 6:00 and 11:00 pm) and Bill Reh (AMS Seal of Approval; weekday mornings on WNCN Today from 4:30-7:00. Also weekdays at 11:00 am starting January 27).


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