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unusual facts about bio-piracy



1861 in the United Kingdom

Criminal law consolidation Acts: The death penalty is limited to murder, embezzlement, piracy, high treason and to acts of arson perpetrated upon docks or ammunition depots; the age of consent is codified as twelve.

1998 in piracy

The London-based International Maritime Bureau reported worldwide acts of piracy had fallen to 198 as compared to 247 from the previous year as well as 67 deaths.

2010 proposed taxonomy of the Bivalvia

In compiling this, the authors used a variety of phylogenetic information including molecular analysis, anatomical analysis, shell morphology and shell microstructure as well as bio-geographic, paleobiogeographic and stratigraphic information.

71 BC

Marcus Antonius is defeated by the Cretans, who has made an alliance with the pirates, he is compelled to conclude a humiliating peace.

Alexander Shikov

In 2009, Dr. Shikov was appointed as an executive director of Kurchatov Institute's center for Nano-Bio-Info-Cognitive (NBIC) science and technology.

Anti Piracy Maritime Security Solutions

Anti Piracy Maritime Security Solutions (APMSS) of Poole, Dorset, England is a British company established in 2008.

Arturo Sanhueza

Born in Concepción, Bío-Bío Region, Sanhueza started his career at hometown club Fernández Vial before moving to Everton, where he would spend an entire season in the team of Viña del Mar.

Asia Square

It will house the largest photovoltaic cells (solar panel) installation on the roof in Singapore and also the first bio-diesel generation plant in a commercial development in the CBD.

Atractylenolide

Atractylenolides I-III are bio-active isolates of the rhizome Rhizoma atractylodes (Cāng zhú).

Bio Ritmo

January 14, 2006, Bio Ritmo performed at the Inaugural Ball for Commonwealth of Virginia Governor Tim Kaine in Williamsburg, Virginia at the College of William & Mary.

Bio-Attack

It was licensed by Fox Video Games, as it is based on the 20th Century Fox film, Fantastic Voyage.

Claire Jowitt

Claire Jowitt is an academic writing on race, cross-gender, piracy, identity, empire and performance.

Closed ecological system

The critically panned 1996 comedy film Bio-Dome involved the protagonists becoming trapped in a closed ecological system being run as an experiment.

COICA

Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, proposed legislation in the United States Senate that allows the blocking the domain names of web sites accused of piracy

Dithymoquinone

Dithymoquinone is a bio-active isolate of Nigella sativa.

Elaine Mardis

Prior to joining the Washington University faculty, she was a senior research scientist at Bio-Rad Laboratories in Hercules, California.

Fishing Without Nets

The plot tells the story of a group of fishermen in Somalia who are lured into piracy.

Flip This House

Flip This House is an American television series that airs on the A&E (Arts and Entertainment) television network as well as the Bio network.

Frolic-class gunvessel

A few months later, Frolic was one of the ships that blockaded the mouth of the Klang River in Malaysia in an attempt to suppress piracy supported by the local sultan.

GURPS Bio-Tech

The first edition of GURPS Bio-Tech was written by David L. Pulver.

Human givens

Human Givens, name of a "bio-psycho-social model of psychotherapy"

Integral City

; and bio-social-evolutionist dynamics of Jared Diamond, Spencer Wells, Howard Bloom, Elisabet Sahtouris and Barbara Marx Hubbard.

Internet censorship in India

On 21 July 2011, all file hosting websites were blocked by ISPs to prevent piracy of the film Singham, causing anger amongst Internet users.

Kid Amazo

As Amazo, merely an advanced robot, failed, the next approach would be to cross bio-mechanical material from Amazo's body with human ova and DNA, in order to obtain a cyborg being who would exhibit the best traits of both human and artificial life.

Kirsten Holly Smith

On November 18, 2012, the new version of Smith’s Dusty Springfield bio-musical, now entitled Forever Dusty opened Off-Broadway at New World Stages in New York City.

Linear dichroism

The predominant use of LD currently is in the study of bio-macromolecules (e.g. DNA) as well as synthetic polymers.

Lit Motors

The original inspiration for Lit Motors came to Kim in 2003, when he was nearly crushed by a chassis while manufacturing a bio-diesel Land Rover Defender 90.

Loni Hancock

Serving as mayor for two terms, she balanced seven straight city budgets, forged a historic agreement between the city and the University of California, began the revitalization of downtown Berkeley, led efforts to secure additional open space and launched a Bio-Tech Academy at Berkeley High School (in partnership with Bayer).

Micronutrient

This technology was offered to Tata Chemicals under a long-term MoU after due studies on bio-availability across the population strata conducted and published by NIN.

Mohamed Abdi Hassan

In January 2013, Hassan announced in the south-central town of Adado that he had renounced crime, retiring from the piracy business.

Movie4k.to

In 2011, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) classified Movie2k.to as a "notorious market" for piracy in a letter to the United States House of Representatives.

MV Sirius Star

The ship received international attention when it was hijacked by Somali pirates (allegedly under the orders of piracy kingpin Mohamed Abdi Hassan) on 15 November 2008, becoming the largest ship ever captured by pirates.

MV Treasure oil spill

The company used a Canadian product, also called Bio-Matrix, made of Sphagnum moss properties notable for its natural ability to soak up oil.

Olisipo

The city came to be very prosperous through suppression of piracy and technological advances, which allowed a boom in the trade with the newly Roman Provinces of Britannia (particularly Cornwall) and the Rhine, and through the introduction of Roman culture to the tribes living by the river Tagus in the interior of Hispania.

Omar Agha

The Congress of Vienna, which addressed the problem of Christian slaves from Barbary piracy, charged the United Kingdom to negotiate with the Dey of Algiers and the Beys of Tunis and Tripoli.

Pais

Today it is most commonly used in the creation of jug wine in the Bío-Bío, Maule and Itata River regions in the south.

Phillip Frost

Dr. Frost previously served as a director for Northrop Grumman Corp.,SearchMedia Holding Limited (NYSE Amex:IDI) formerly Ideation Acquisition Corp., Protalix Bio Therapeutics, Inc., and SafeStitch Medical Inc., and as Governor and Co-Vice-Chairman of the American Stock Exchange (now NYSE Amex).

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

On the Umbrella Security Service team there is: Vector (Andrew Kishino), the team's recon expert and is equipped with a cloaking ability; Beltway (Ramon Fernandez), who is proficient in the use of explosives; Bertha (Lydia Look), the medic; Spectre (David Cooley), the marksman; Four Eyes (Gwendoline Yeo), the scientist, with the ability to program the bio-organic weapons (BOWs); and Lupo (Nika Futterman), who is the team leader.

Roger Clinton, Jr.

Clinton has had minor roles in several films, including Bio-Dome and Fred Claus, and guest-starred on a number of television shows, including The Nanny as himself (neighbor), Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, and Cybill.

Rogue Trooper video games

Several aspects of the comic were included in the game, such as Nort pillboxes (visually based to some degree on hardened field defences used by the British in World War II), a Quartz-like 'Glass Zone' and most notably the personalities of the bio-chips, which would announce the presence of enemy soldiers, give health and ammo status reports and make sarcastic and derogatory remarks at the Norts and to Rogue himself.

Samuel Mason

By 1797, he moved the base of his river piracy further downriver to Cave-in-Rock on the Illinois shore.

Sinking of the Petrel

The surviving rebels were eventually sent to Philadelphia in the steamship USS Flag to be charged for piracy but the accusation was not justified and the sailors were taken to Moyamensing Prison for the duration of the war.

South Indian Film Artistes' Association

;Film piracy awareness: President R. Sarathkumar and his wife Raadhika Sarathkumar, who is also the co-producer of the film Jaggubhai, held a press conference on January 4, condemning the acts of pirated films being uploaded on the Internet and sales of pirated DVDs.

Special Task And Rescue

Additionally, the STAR team also plays the role of first responder on piracy, terrorism and robbery threats at sea before arrival of the reinforcement from Royal Malaysian Police and Royal Malaysian Navy Special Forces.

Steal This Film

Material found in Steal This Film includes the music of Can, tracks "Thief" and "She Brings the Rain"; clips from other documentary interviews with industry and governmental officials; several industry anti-piracy promotionals; logos from several major Hollywood studios, and sequences from The Day After Tomorrow, The Matrix, Zabriskie Point, and They Live.

Tadateru Konoe

In 1994, he was lecturer on Micro study on International Relief Organizations at the Graduate School of Toyo Eiwa University, in Tokyo, Japan, and he is a lecturer, panelist, commentator, and speaker at various academic and other forums on topics including humanitarian aid, IHL, disasters, development, and bio-ethics.

TTK Group

The TTK Group is an Indian business conglomerate with a presence across several segments of industry including consumer durables, pharmaceuticals and supplements, bio-medical devices, maps and atlases, consular visa services, virtual assistant services and health care services.

U-Cont

Lately the focus in U-Cont has been on renewable resources, which has led the company to collaboration with St1 Biofuels and producing bio-ethanol production plants that use baking industry's waste in the process of ethanol production.

Ved Rahi

Ved Rahi (born 1933) is an Indian film director who made the film Veer Savarkar (2001), a bio-epic on the life of Indian revolutionary Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.

Vic Reeves' Pirates

# Woodes Rogers, a notorious pirate hunter, who helped put an end to piracy.


see also

Traditional Knowledge Digital Library

the objective of the library is to protect the ancient and traditional knowledge of the country from exploitation through bio-piracy and unethical patents, by documenting it electronically and classifying it as per international patent classification systems.