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mollie or molly, New World fish of the genus Mollienesia, in the same family as the guppy (see killifish ). Mollies are found from the E and central United States to Argentina. Top-living fish, they are found in fresh or brackish water, where they feed on algae. Fertilizing internally and giving birth to live young, mollies are of great interest to geneticists because of the reproductive peculiarities of one species, the Amazon mollie ( M. formosa ). This species, which ranges as far N as Texas, consists only of females, which copulate with males of other mollie species; the male does not contribute to the heredity of the all-female offspring. The sailfin mollie, or sailfin ( M. latipinna ), is found in fresh- and saltwater from South Carolina to Mexico. Sailfins are olive-green with black markings and brightly colored fins. The saillike dorsal fins of the male make it an especially popular aquarium fish. Solid black mollies are artificially bred from any of several mollie species, although mottled black sailfin mollies sometimes occur in nature. Mollies are classified in the phylum Chordata , subphylum Vertebrata, class Osteichthyes, order Cyprinodontiformes, family Poeciliidae.

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	Comparison of Metabolic Rates of Guppy, Poecilia reticulata (Poecilidae), and Black Molly, Poecilia latipinna (Poecilidae), at Different Temperatures.(Statistical Data Included) Magazine article from: Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...at different temperatures. Guppies and mollies are popular, small aquarium pets. The...naturally smaller than the male black mollies. Both fishes, along with other similar...measure up to 6 cm long and the female black mollies of the same body weight is recommended... Read more
	Doohan, James & Stirling, S.M. The independent command.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Kliatt; 3/1/2002; ; 279 words ; ...peril, harried by renegade humans called Mollies who are intent on crippling Earth's colonization...accomplish this, the suicidally murderous Mollies have teamed up with an extremely alien...spiders, the Fibians. The combination of the Mollies' fanaticism and the Fibians' sophisticated... Read more
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	Slime hunters: scientists brave deadly gases and flesh-burning acid to discover what's hidden in a cave in Mexico.(Earth Caves) Magazine article from: Science World; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...cave's inhabitants include spiders, freshwater eels, and bats. Mollies--inch-long, pink fish that eat, the slimy bacteria found in Villa Luz's stream--are another resident. [The mollies] look like they're wearing turquoise eye shadow, says Northup... Read more
	(book review) Magazine article from: The Journal of Sex Research; 2/1/2000; ; 585 words ; ...Walpole, and Richard West; fops and beaus found in Restoration and early eighteenth-century comedy; and effeminate sodomites and mollies portrayed in literature and sodomy trials throughout the period. He also reevaluates the nature of the libertine, the man of... Read more
	All about Yve Adam.(Brief Article) Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine); 10/24/2000; ; 369 words ; ...home, where maybe I have a girlfriend, she coyly jokes. Yve Adam, the band, evolved out of Yve and Adam's mutual membership in Mollies Revenge, a short-lived but respected Canadian band that, in Yve's words, got signed but never broke. For Yve herself, another... Read more
	Butterflies Will Burn: Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico.(Book Review) Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...differences between male prosecutors and male victims would be expressed in gendered terms, the victims becoming girlies, Nancies, Mollies and the like, so that it is curious at best for Garza while emphasizing power to dismiss both a gendered and apparently a generational... Read more
	Desert fish: life on the edge.(Nevada's Amargosa pupfish) Newspaper article from: Endangered Species Update; 11/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...bass, bullfrogs, and crayfish, may prey on pupfish, while exotic fishes such as mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) and sailfin mollies (Poecilia latipinna) may compete with the pupfish for space and food (and prey upon the baby pupfish pups ). Invasive plants... Read more
	Trinity Irish Dance Company. (Joyce Theater, NYC) Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 11/1/1997; ; 441 words ; ...for dances that ranged from straightforward baubles (Step About, 1991) to confused melodramas (the premieres Bansidhe and The Mollies). Then, at concert's end, Howard sent them smiling in their glad rags to the Joyce's doors on Eighth Avenue, where they thanked... Read more
	Policing male heterosexuality: the reformation of manners societies' campaign against the brothels in Westminster, 1690-1720. Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...prostitutes, as the century wore on, by a strong desire to prove that they were not effeminate, not part of the new third gender of mollies. (12) Randolph Trumbach's conclusions have been widely questioned, and, ironically, his need to uncover these very subtle factors... Read more

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	– Book article from: International Directory of Business Biographies ...1968. Family: Son of Max Sternberg (telegraph operator) and Mollie Sternberg (homemaker); married Roslyn Jacobowitz, 1965 (divorced...Sternberg was born in Brooklyn, New York. The son of Max and Mollie Sternberg, he grew up in Brooklyn's Benson-hurst neighborhood... Read more

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