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2 unusual facts about marlin


Marlin

In the Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novel The Old Man and the Sea, the central character of the work is an aged Cuban fisherman who, after 84 days without success on the water, heads out to sea to break his run of bad luck.

Spearfish

Marlin, or Spearfish, a fish with an elongated body, a spear-like snout or bill


.338 Marlin Express

Winchester, Hornady and Marlin engineers started with a previous collaboration between Hornady and the Austrian arms maker Steyr, the .376

Brigid Marlin

Marlin is the daughter of artist and children's author Hilda van Stockum.

Cabo Blanco, Peru

Ernest Hemingway stayed more than a month at the famous "Cabo Blanco Fishing Club" and caught a 700 pound marlin while filming the motion picture based on his novel, The Old Man and the Sea.

Cali Cartel

Later Cali cartel principals included the son of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela, Jorge Alberto Rodriguez, as well as Hélmer Herrera, Jairo Ivan Urdinola Grajales, Julio Fabio Urdinola Grajales, Henry Loaiza Ceballos, Victor Patiño-Fomeque, Phanor Arizabaleta-Arzayus, Raul Grajales Lemos, Luis Grajales Posso, Bernardo Saenz, Juan Carlos Ortiz Escobar, Javier Marlin Rojas, and James Andrae.

Coach Carter Impact Academy

Ken Carter, founder of the academy, had not heard of the town of Marlin before the movie Coach Carter (2005).

The Coach Carter Impact Academy is an unconventional boarding school that was founded by Ken "Coach" Carter in 2009 in the small Central Texas town of Marlin.

Eddie Marlin

In 2001, Eddie Marlin took part in the “Clash of the Legends ” in Memphis that also had Jerry Lawler, Brian Christopher, Sputnik Monroe, Tracy Smothers, Tommy Rogers, Lord Humongous ( Emory Hale ), Jimmy Hart, The Moondogs, The Bushwhackers, and referee Jerry Calhoun.

It began when Gilbert's son, Doug, interrupted Marlin who was being interviewed by Lance Russell, and accused Marlin of showing favoritism towards Jerry Lawler.

Geography of Guam

: Commercial fishing (mostly servicing and unloading of longline fleets and commercial vessels), recreational fishing of Indo-Pacific Blue Marlin (Makaira mazara), Wahoo (Acanthocybium solandri), Mahi-mahi (Coryphaena hippurus), Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), and deepwater reef fish, tourism (especially from Japan but increasingly from China and South Korea).

Gripping Sailor's hitch

It will even grip a tapered object, such as a marlin spike, in the direction of taper, similar to the Icicle hitch.

Hospedia

Marlin Equity Partners who are also behind enterprise resource planning business Solarsoft acquired Hospedia LTD in 2010, Hospedia was formed of a combination of Premier Telesolutions (Patientline's competitor) and its backer Milestone Capital.

Land-based game fishing

The billfish (marlin and sailfish) and the larger tuna (bluefin, yellowfin) are the main target species; smaller game fish are also sought, such as Spanish mackerel, dolphinfish, wahoo, smaller tuna species such as albacore and skipjack tuna, Australian longtail.

Linspire

Linspire bases their product code names on fish found near their headquarters: Linspire/LindowsOS 4.5 was code named Coho; Linspire Five-0 (5.0 and 5.1) and Freespire 1.0, Marlin; and Freespire 2.0 and Linspire 6.0, Skipjack.

Marlin Eller

Marlin Eller is an American programmer who was a manager and a software developer at Microsoft Corporation from 1982–1995, and he was development lead for the Graphics Device Interface of Windows 1.0 and also for Pen Windows.

Martin P5M Marlin

The Martin P5M Marlin (P-5 Marlin after 1962), built by the Glenn L. Martin Company of Middle River, Maryland, was a twin-engined piston-powered flying boat entering service in 1951 and serving into late 1960s in service with the United States Navy for naval patrol.

Project Reality

In December 2011 a multiplayer map pack was released, containing four new maps ("Black Gold" (4 km2), "Operation Marlin" (2 km2), "Pavlovsk Bay" (4 km2) and "Vadsø City" (4 km2)), in addition to bringing back three revised old maps ("Assault on Mestia" (1 km2), "Operation Ghost Train" (1 km2) and "Tad Sae Offensive" (1 km2)).

Republic of Ezo

The troops were organized under a joint Franco-Japanese command, Commander-in-chief Otori Keisuke being seconded by the French captain Jules Brunet, and divided into four brigades, each commanded by a French officer (Fortant, Marlin, Cazeneuve and Bouffier).

Rubicon Trail

Many large events take place on the trail, ranging from Jeep-only events (Jeep Jamboree) and 4x4 enthusiast events (Jeepers Jamboree, TLCA's Rubithon, Marlin Crawler Round-Up) to family trips to special events organized just for SUVs and stock 4x4s that could not otherwise complete the trail.

Ryan Daniel Dobson

He worked the following two years at Casady School in Oklahoma City as Chaplain with Father John Henry Marlin.

Sterling Marlin

In 2012, Marlin publicly revealed that he had been diagnosed with Parkinsonism.

Marlin received a full-time ride in 1987, when he was hired by Billy Hagan to drive the #44 Piedmont Airlines Oldsmobile.

The Old Man and the Sea

One of his most famous works, it centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

Wayne Perkins

This led to work at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio with such names as David Porter and the Soul Children, Dave Crawford and Brad Shapiro, Dee Dee Warwick, Ronnie Milsap, Joe Cocker, Leon Russell, Jimmy Cliff, Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood and Marlin Greene.

West Babylon High School

Billy Koch, Relief Pitcher in the Major Leagues for the Blue Jays, Athletics, White Sox, and Marlin (1999-2004)

Whakaari / White Island

Yellowtail kingfish abound all year round, and there is deep water fishing for hapuka and bluenose (type of warehou) in the winter and blue, black and striped marlin and yellowfin tuna in the summer.


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