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sturgeon
sturgeon primitive fish of the northern regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Unlike evolutionarily advanced fishes, it has a fine-grained hide, with very reduced scalation, a mostly cartilaginous skeleton, upturned tail fins, and a mouth set well back on the underside of the head. It also ha... Read more

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sturgeon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...through their small, toothless, fleshy-lipped mouths. Some species are marine, e.g., the Atlantic sturgeon Acipenser oxyrhyncus; some ascend rivers to spawn; and some (the largest of inland fish) are found in landlocked waters. The largest species...

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Incident at Senepta
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 3/20/2004; ; 366 words ; ...it must have seemed a Paradise inviting you to lean out, enter it; your small arrival silenced the castanets. Ian Blake Oxyrhyncus papyri, VoL 3, 1903, no. 747 'At a late hour yesterday (2 November 188 AD) while the castanet dancers were giving their...
Class tensions
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/12/1995; ; 609 words ; ...in extracts from the public poetry written for the stage: "Agammemnon", "Medea", "Square Rounds", "Trackers of Oxyrhyncus", and even a page or two from the "Poetry or Bust", a dramatic rendering of the life of the Airedale poet John Nicholson...