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unusual facts about sponge


For All the Drugs in the World

For All the Drugs in the World is the fourth album by the band Sponge, their first release through Idol Records.


Aquaculture of sea sponges

Bath sponges are currently being produced using the sponge Coscinoderma matthewsi with production of about 12,000 sponges, sold locally to residents and tourists in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia.

Bioerosion

The coral is converted to sand by internal bioeroders such as algae, fungi, bacteria (microborers) and sponges (Clionaidae), bivalves (including Lithophaga), sipunculans, polychaetes, acrothoracican barnacles and phoronids, generating extremely fine sediment with diameters of 10 to 100 micrometres.

Contraceptive sponge

On the TV series My So-Called Life, the doctor tells Angela to use a sponge if she's thinking of having sex.

Ecology of sponges

Sponge flies, also known as spongilla-flies (Neuroptera, Sisyridae), are specialist predators of freshwater sponges.

Elacatinus chancei

The shortstripe goby lives in association with a tubular sponge such as Verongia aerophoba or a massive sponge such as Neofibularia nolitangere.

Flame fougasse

This assembly was placed in a rubber sponge bag that was, in turn, inside a used cocoa tin; four ounces (100 g) of magnesium alloy turnings were added, the electrical wires were passed through a small hole in the lid of the tin which was then tightly fitted.

Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary

Almost three hundred species of fish, twenty-one species of coral, several species of crustaceans, four dominant species of sponges, and a wide variety of sharks, skates, and rays.

Holy Sponge

Charlemagne also is said to have acquired a piece of the sponge, which is venerated in the cathedral at his capital, Aachen.

Homaxinella balfourensis

Many predators find the spicules of Homaxinella balfourensis distasteful but the sea stars Odontaster meridionalis and Odontaster validus feed on it, leaving behind the spongin which provides a fibrous support to the sponge.

Hugh Molloy

Following a shellburst which mortally wounded the first sponger, who dropped the sponge out of the forecastle port, Molloy jumped out of the port to the forecastle, recovered the sponge and sponged and loaded the gun for the remainder of the action from his exposed position, despite the extreme danger to his person from the raking fire of enemy musketry.

Ianthella basta

The sea cucumber Synaptula lamperti is closely associated with the sponge and makes use of certain nutrients exuded by it.

Indolocarbazole

Three species of tunicate, one mollusk, one flatworm, and one sponge have been discovered in places ranging from Micronesia to New Zealand.

Isotuberculosinol

Nosyberkol was originally isolated in 2004 from a marine sponge in the ocean near island of Nosy Be after which it was named.

M. esculenta

Morchella esculenta, the morel, yellow morel, common morel, true morel, morel mushroom or sponge morel, a mushroom species

Music of the Bahamas

In this milieu more traditional Bahamas performers such as Joseph Spence, have still enjoyed successful careers playing junkanoo, Christian hymns and the ant'ems of the local sponge fisherman, which include "Sloop John B", later made famous by The Beach Boys.

Pododesmus patelliformis

Older specimens of the ribbed saddle-oyster are usually covered by tubeworms and sponges.

Rotting Piñata

A special edition included a bonus CD featuring Sponge live at Rock am Ring Nürburgring on June 2, 1995.

RTI International Metals

RTI recently announced plans to build a new premium-grade sponge plant contiguous to the Tronox plant in Hamilton, Mississippi.

Sisyridae

They use their mouthparts to parasitize Spongillidae freshwater sponges (e.g. of the genus Spongilla, hence the name "spongillaflies") and Phylactolaemata freshwater bryozoans by stinging into the host animals' body and sucking out cell contents.

Spongiforma squarepantsii

The genus name Spongiforma refers to the sponge-like nature of the fruit body, while the specific epithet squarepantsii denotes the resemblance to the well-known cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.

Spys4Darwin

Meanwhile, Vin Dombroski and Sponge band mate Joey Mazzola recruited three new members to record their 2003 effort, For All the Drugs in the World.

Suberites ficus

Linnaeus in 1767, Esper in 1794 and Lamarck in 1814 also used the name but it was not until Johnston described the spicules as well as the sponge which he named Halichondria ficus in 1842 that it became clear what sponge was being described.

Sycon raphanus

The name derives from the Greek, "raphanus", meaning radish, and presumably refers to the sponge's shape.

Tripod fish

Marshall drew attention to the similarities between tripod fish and one of the icefish, Pagetopsis, which was described by Robilliard and Dayton as perching on a sponge.

William Jasper

Leaping from an embrasure, Jasper recovered the flag, which he tied to a sponge staff (see the Cannon instruments section of the Cannon operation article) and replaced on the parapet, where he supported it until a permanent flag staff had been procured and installed.


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