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unusual facts about trapping



A. occultus

Antrodiaetus occultus, a floor trapping spider species in the genus Anthrodiaetus and the family Antrodiaetidae

A2M

Alpha-2-Macroglobulin, a gene with the ability to inhibit all four classes of proteinases by a unique "trapping" mechanism

Bykle

From as early as 1203 and as late as 1780 there are reports of English and Dutch trapping of falcons at Breivik in Bykle.

Century of the Dragon

When Sing's girlfriend Judy (Joey Meng) learns that Chun sent his top henchmen Ma Wong (Frankie Ng) and Fa Fot (Lung Fong) to kidnap Fei Lung's wife Daisy (Suki Kwan), Judy immediately informs Daisy; while on the other hand, Loan Shark Ko has captured Lung's mother to threaten Lung to surrender and Chun unexpectedly arrives and kills Ko while trapping Lung, his mother and son in a farm.

Color of water

Color is not removed by typical water filters; however, slow sand filters can remove color, and the use of coagulants may also succeed in trapping the color-causing compounds within the resulting precipitate.

Fairy Pitta

Its population is inferred to be rapidly declining due to deforestation in its breeding range, principally for agriculture and timber, locally compounded by trapping for the cagebird trade.

Gerald Gabrielse

Tom Stoppard's play "Hapgood" features a reflection by a bearded physicist on trapping antimatter.

Guy Gruters

Guy Gruters was raised in New Jersey where he spent his childhood trapping muskrat, camping, hunting and Scouting (Eagle Scout Rank awarded).

H.E.R.B.I.E.

After Sun's attempt to assassinate the Fantastic Four with Blastaar failed, Dr. Sun reveals himself at last, trapping the Invisible Woman and the Human Torch within the Baxter Building's security system and besting Mister Fantastic and the Thing with H.E.R.B.I.E.'s weapons.

Hypoallergenic vacuum cleaner

Some newer vacuum cleaners have high-efficiency particulate air filtration (HEPA) filters attached, which, when combined with the special bags, are effective in trapping almost 100% of allergens, including ragweed, dust mites, and grass pollen.

Jamrud

In 1837 when the Sikh army was concentrated at Lahore to celebrate the marriage of Kawar Nau Nihal Singh, the grandson of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Afghans sensing the opportunity and led by Akbar Khan laid the siege to Jamrud, trapping about one thousand Sikh troops with Afghans army of twenty to twenty five thousands troops.

Jennifer Gove

Her bowling was also used in the match, and she claimed two wickets in the second innings, dismissing Katherine Smith caught and bowled, and trapping Ruth Westbrook leg before wicket.

Joseph Gale

As early as 1830, Joseph Gale had traveled the Santa Fe Trail from Missouri to Taos and was fur trapping in the southern Rocky Mountains.

Lancelet

Ciliary action pushes the mucus in a film over the surface of the gill slits, trapping suspended food particles as it does so.

Lê Hoàn

Remembering the success of Ngô Quyền who, half a century earlier, had defeated the Chinese navy as it attempted to invade Đại Việt by way of the Bạch Đằng River, he copied Quyen's strategy of booby-trapping the river with long sharpened stakes that were out of sight beneath the surface of the water at high tide.

MacGuffin

The first one asks, "What's a MacGuffin?" "Well," the other man says, "it's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands."

Marcelino Baca

A native of Taos, Baca first learned beaver trapping while accompanying American groups, as the Spanish government required Mexican citizens to accompany any foreign commercial operation.

Mass suicide in Demmin

The retreating Wehrmacht had blown up the bridges over the Peene and Tollense rivers, which enclosed the town to the north, west and south, thus blocking the Red Army's advance and trapping the remaining civilians.

Melcom

In the year 2012 Melcom suffered two major accidents: on 7 November 2012, Ghana suffered a major accident when Melcom's five story Shopping Mall at Achimota near Accra collapsed trapping many people inside.

Parsons Corporation

Parsons is also notable to readers of John Perkins' book Confessions of an Economic Hitman, as the company that acquired Chas. T. Main Inc., a New England–based international engineering firm, which according to the book, acted as a consulting firm, trapping many Third World countries into international debts they could not repay.

Paulatuk

Hunting, fishing and trapping are major economic activities, but in recent years art printmaking has played an increasing role in the local economy.

Polar Trappers

Polar Trappers is a 1938 Donald Duck and Goofy cartoon in the South Pole trapping polar animals.

Ross McCloud

The McCloud River was likely originally known as the "McLeod River," after Alexander Roderick McLeod, the leader of a number of hunting and trapping expeditions for the Hudson's Bay Company in Northern and Central California.

Rossitten Bird Observatory

It receives support from the Sielmann Foundation and works closely with western partners, including the Vogelwarte Radolfzell with which it operates a joint trapping and banding station.

Russian River State Marine Reserve and Russian River State Marine Conservation Area

In the Russian River SMCA, the taking of all living marine resources is prohibited, except the recreational and commercial trapping of Dungeness crab and the taking of Hypomesus pretiosus (surf smelt) by hand-held dip nets or beach nets.

Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party

Eighteen year old Moses Schallenberger spent the winter there watching over the wagons, surviving the impassably deep snows only by trapping High Sierra foxes for food.

Waite Phillips

To support themselves, they worked a variety of jobs in fields such as railroad building, mining and lumbering, and spent one winter trapping fur animals in the Bitterroot Mountains.


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