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2 unusual facts about Sturgeon


Sturgeon-class submarine

A total of seven boats were modified to carry the SEAL Dry Deck Shelter (DDS).

Sturgeon, Minnesota

Sturgeon is an unincorporated community in Sturgeon Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.


Beluga caviar

The Beluga sturgeon is currently considered to be critically endangered, causing the United States Fish and Wildlife Service to ban in 2005 the importation of Beluga caviar which originated in the Caspian Sea and Black Sea basin.

Celilo Village, Oregon

Many residents are fishers engaging in ceremonial, subsistence, and commercial fisheries for salmon, steelhead, and sturgeon in the Columbia River.

Children of the Atom

One reviewer wrote, "What we find here is an inventive updating of Stapledon's famous Odd John (1935) in very sensitive, unsentimental terms, with the addition of a sense of community, a benefit that Stapledon's protagonist never got to fully experience. Shiras tells her story in simple yet affecting prose, a kind of blend of Sturgeon and Simak. "

Dunkeld, Victoria

Louis Buvelot, Eugene von Guerard and Nicholas Chevalier all made paintings of the district, where Mount Abrupt and Mount Sturgeon provide an appealing backdrop.

Great Lakes Aquarium

The Saint Louis River exhibit is a slow-moving river habitat with perch, walleye, gar, sturgeon, channel catfish, and other native species.

I, Libertine

It is said that Betty Ballantine completed the final chapter after an exhausted Sturgeon fell asleep on the Ballantines' couch, having tried to meet the deadline in one marathon typing session.

Idington, Minnesota

Idington is an unincorporated community in Angora Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States; located within the Sturgeon River State Forest.

Jorge López Orozco

On August 11, 2002, sturgeon fishermen were riding all-terrain vehicles along the fishing section of the Snake River just outside Mountain Home, Idaho.

Lake Timiskaming

There are 30 species of fish in Lake Timiskaming, the best known are northern pike, sturgeon, lake trout, walleye, smallmouth bass, bullhead, carp, burbot, perch and whitefish.

Namao

CFB Edmonton, a Canadian Forces Base in Sturgeon County adjacent to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ossetra

In Russian there are different names for the species of sturgeon that live in various territories such as Beluga (Huso Huso), Sevruga (Acipenser stellatus) and Sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus).

Pallid sturgeon

To better protect the pallid sturgeon from extinction, research on its DNA and that of other closely related species was conducted to assess the differences within various populations of pallid sturgeon, and the differences between pallid and shovelnose sturgeon.

Taxonomists S.A. Forbes and R. E. Richardson classified the pallid sturgeon in 1905, grouping it in the Parascaphirhynchus genus and the Acipenseridae family, which includes all sturgeon worldwide.

To better understand pallid sturgeon behavior, researchers have implanted GPS transmitters to track their movements and help identify possible spawning areas.

Peter A. Sturgeon

The writer William Tenn has stated that Sturgeon became involved with POUM while in Spain and fell into disfavor with his superiors.

Peter Assheton Sturgeon (November 22, 1916 – July 22, 2005) was founder of the American branch of Mensa and the older brother of noted American science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon.

Plus-X

Venus Plus X, a 1960 science fiction novel written by Theodore Sturgeon

Raindance Foundation

The nonprofit Raindance Foundation continued and in the 1980s produced the first comprehensive TV series on video art called "Night Light TV" which showcased video works by William Wegman, Ira Schneider, Russ Johnson (of Taly and Russ Johnson), Joan Jonas, Juan Downey, John Sturgeon, and Willoughby Sharp.

Sturgeon Pool

Sturgeon Pool is a reservoir near the hamlet of Rifton, in the Town of Esopus in Ulster County, New York.

Walter van de Walle

He served as a trustee of the Sturgeon Hospital Foundation and was an active member of the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians.

Van de Walle's political career began in 1958 when he was elected to the Sturgeon school division board of trustees, on which he served until 1965.

WDOR

WDOR-FM, a radio station (93.9 FM) licensed to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States

Whiteshell Provincial Park

Other displays include the boreal forest, Canadian Aboriginal peoples, petroforms, sturgeon and the Winnipeg River.

William Dowton

He played with great success Mr. Hardcastle in She stoops to conquer, Clod in Young Quaker, Rupert in Jealous Wife, Sir Anthony Absolute in The Rivals, Major Sturgeon in The Mayor of Garrett, Governor Heartall in The Soldier's Daughter, and Dr. Cantwell in The Hypocrite at the Lyceum on 23 Jan. 1810.

WLTM

WZDR, a radio station (99.7 FM) licensed to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States, which held the call sign WLTM from September 1996 to April 2002

WRGX

WNLI, a radio station (88.5 FM) licensed to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, United States, which used the call sign WRGX from 1998 to 2008


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