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2 unusual facts about coral


Fitzalan Square

In addition to the motorcycle accessory shop, amusement arcade and gift shop, the square contains three betting shops from national chains Betfred, Coral and Ladbrokes, a few insurance companies and a small newsagents.

SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge

Coral Blower: While with his coral blower, SpongeBob can suck scattered seashells and throw them in order to break rock walls.


Ala Moana Center

Dredging projects nearby spearheaded by Walter F. Dillingham created excess coral which filled the swamp, purchased by Dillingham in 1912 from the estate of Bernice Pauahi Bishop.

Alice Doria-Gamilla

It was later recorded by Bobbi Martin of the "Jackie Gleason Show" in the United States under Coral Records.

Anne Aghion

In 1996, her first documentary Se le movió el piso: A portrait of Managua won the Coral Award for "Best Non-Latin American Documentary on Latin America" at the Havana Film Festival in Havana, Cuba.

Arabian carpetshark

Another potentially major threat to this species is habitat degradation: coral reefs in the Persian Gulf face bottom trawling, coastal development (especially large-scale land reclamation projects such as in the United Arab Emirates), Turkish dams on the Tigris-Euphrates river system, draining of marshes in Iraq, and oil spills.

Assorted Gems

All were named after precious jewels: eldest daughter Bi-chwi ("Jade"), eldest son San-ho ("Coral"), second daughter Ryu-bi ("Ruby"), and the youngest son, Ho-bak ("Amber").

Batt

Batt Reef, coral reef off Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia

Beau Vallon, Seychelles

The Coral Strand has the island's most popular and only air conditioned Indian Restaurant, "Mahek".

Benin art

Benin’s other important ritual festivals include Ague, where the first budded yams are blessed in hopes of a successful harvest; Ugie Ivie, the Festival of Beads, in which the oba’s coral and red stone regalia is bathed in cow’s blood to reinvest it with spiritual force; Ugie Erha Oba, which honors the oba’s father and all paternal ancestors; Oduduwa, a masquerade that likewise honors the oba’s paternal ancestors; and Ugie Oro, celebrating Oba Esigie’s victory over the Idah Kingdom in the 16th century.

Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences

Classes are offered in Summer and Fall and course topics range from Microbial Oceanography: The Biogeochemistry, Ecology and Genomics of Oceanic Microbial Ecosystems, to Marine Invertebrate Zoology and Coral Reef Ecology.

Broadhaven Bay

In exposed areas of the bay regularly exposed to wave action the anemone Phellia gausapata is found in shallow waters A cave in deeper water supports colonies of the rare anemone Parazoanthus anguicomus and soft coral Alcyonium glomeratum.

Collector urchin

The urchins were released to help control the invasive seaweed genus Kappaphycus, also known as "smothering seaweed," which has overrun local coral.

Colón Province

This province has traditionally been focused in commerce (through the Colón Free Zone, Panama Canal and its banking activities), but also has natural resources that are being developed as tourist attraction, such as coral reefs and rainforests.

Coral catshark

The coral catshark was first described by an anonymous author, usually referred to English zoologist Edward Turner Bennett, in the 1830 Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.

Coral Magazine

Published bimonthly by Reef to Rainforest Media LLC in Charlotte, Vermont, Coral is edited by James M. Lawrence, with a board of advisors composed of prominent aquarium authors and marine scientists, including Dr. Andrew Bruckner of NOAA, Dr. Gerald R. Allen of Conservation International, Julian Sprung, and Dr. Sylvia Earle, oceanographer.

Coral Princess

During fall, winter, and spring the Coral Princess and her sister ship Island Princess run 10/14-15 day Panama Canal cruises with stops in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, San Juan del Sur, Puntarenas, Costa Rica, Cartagena, Colombia, and Oranjestad, Aruba.

Coral reef protection

Lettuce corals and branching corals such as elkhorn and finger coral are extremely fragile, but even massive boulder corals can be crushed or snapped off and turned upside down to die by a sailboat keel.

Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church

By the 1980s, the church's television ministry had a weekly audience of 3.5 million viewers, as the Coral Ridge Hour aired on more than 400 stations and four cable networks, including the Trinity Broadcasting Network, The Inspiration Network (INSP) and the NRB Network, as well as broadcast to more than 150 countries on the Armed Forces Network.

Cutler, Florida

Coral Reef Elementary School and Southwood Middle School had been located in Cutler before Palmetto Bay incorporated.

Cymbiolacca

The largest species (reaching 140 mm in length) are Cymbiolacca thatcheri from reeftops in the Coral Sea and a population of Cymbiolacca intruderi from deep water outside the Great Barrier Reef north east of Townsville.

David W. Dyer Federal Building and United States Courthouse

The first envisioned using imported marble and bronze, while the second was to use aluminum and a local coralline limestone, a lithified coral quarried at Windley Key near Key Largo and called Keystone.

Edgy Women

Past performers include actress Marie Brassard, Jess Dobkin (performance artist), Céline Bonnier (actress), Dayna Mcleod (performance artist), Sylvette Babin (performance artist), Coral Short (performance artist), WWKA (Women With Kitchen Appliances), Les Fermières Obsédées (Quebec City), Lazlo Pearlman (UK), and Jen Miller (USA).

Eric W. Mountjoy

Most of Mountjoy’s research has concentrated on Jasper Park's Miette area, and in particular on its exposed coral reefs from the Devonian period (395 million to 345 million years ago).

Florida State Road 834

Sample Road is also mentioned in the hidden track of Nothing Gold Can Stay (album) by Coral Springs natives New Found Glory.

Geography of the United States Virgin Islands

The U.S. Virgin Islands have many well-known beaches, including Magens Bay (Saint Thomas) and Trunk Bay (Saint John), and coral reefs, including the Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument and the Buck Island Reef National Monument.

George Merrick

George E. Merrick (1886–1942), real estate developer in Coral Gables, Florida

Golf course

Residents of Great Guana Cay and Bimini, for example, are engaged in legal and political opposition to golf developments on their islands, for fear the golf courses will destroy the nutrient-poor balance on which their coral reef and mangrove systems depend.

Isophyllia sinuosa

It is prone to bleaching, when a coral expels its zooxanthellae under stressful conditions, to black band disease, and to white plague.

Jean Carlos Alves Coral

Jean Carlos Alves Coral born in Içara on January 1, 1988, is a Brazilian who currently plays for Botafogo FR in the Campeonato Brasileiro.

John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park

One of the most famous residents of Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park is the Christ of the Abyss, located near Dry Rocks.

John Veron

Veron has criticised global warming skeptics like Ian Plimer, saying of Plimer's book Heaven and Earth: "Every original statement Plimer makes in the book on coral and coral reefs is incorrect, and that "Plimer serves up diagrams from no acknowledged source, diagrams known to be obsolete and diagrams that combine bits of science with bits of fiction.

Lake Chicago

Evidence of these seas are found in the fossils of coral, such as those unearthed in Illinois quarries at Stony Island Avenue, Thornton and McCook Avenues, or at 18th Street and Damen Avenue, all in Chicago.

María Guinand

In 1992, she founded two important projects for the promotion of academic music in Venezuela: the “Academia Bach de Venezuela”, Venezuela’s Chapter of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, and the “Academia Nacional de Canto Gregoriano” and the “Coral Fundación Empresas Polar”.

Meandrina meandrites

These resemble young colonies of rose coral (Manicina areolata) and may be found in sandy or muddy areas some way from reefs.

Michael Utley

Utley has title credit on several albums, the first being an instrumental record with fellow Coral Reefer Band member Robert Greenidge titled Mad Music.

Mili

Mili Atoll, a coral atoll of 92 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands.

Muro-Ami

It is a look at the poverty in the Visayas , primarily seen through the eyes of the coral fishers (Muro-Ami).

Myrka Dellanos

On August 29, 2008, the Coral Gables police department released audio of the 9-1-1 call made by Dellanos.

N. elegans

Naso elegans, the elegant unicornfish, Indian orange-spine unicorn, orange-spine unicorn or smoothheaded unicornfish, a tropical fish found in coral reefs in the Indian Ocean

Night of the Wolverine

With Graney on vocals, the Coral Snakes line-up included his wife Clare Moore on drums and percussion; Robin Casinader on keyboards, violin and mandolin; Rob Hayward on lead guitar; and Andrew Picouleau on bass guitar.

Palolo

Palolo worm, a species of invertebrate that lives in tropical coral reefs

Phyllodesmium longicirrum

Phyllodesmium longicirrum feeds on soft coral Sarcophyton trocheliophorum (family Alcyoniidae).

Tirumakudal Narsipur

When the washerman expressed his wish to visit (Kashi) Varanasi on a pilgrimage, god told him that the construction of a temple for him, had earned the washerman an additional punya (Merit) of about a coral beed vine seed (Abrus precatorius)) than that which accrues by visiting Kashi.

UnderWater World Guam

The gallery exhibits at UnderWater World Guam are home to animals from around the world, including Chambered Nautilus, Japanese spider crab, Corals, and a unique exhibit featuring fish that change gender.

Valdivian soft coral

Research at Rhodes University has shown that chemicals in this soft coral may have anti-inflammatory properties.

Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument

Seeking to provide greater protection to the sensitive coral reef resources, President Clinton established the Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument on January 17, 2001.

You Wanna Be There But You Don't Wanna Travel

With Graney on vocals, the Coral Snakes line-up included his wife Clare Moore on drums and percussion; Robin Casinader on keyboards, violin and mandolin; Rob Hayward on lead guitar; and early member Gordy Blair returned on bass guitar.


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