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- Seven species, including one recently extinct (the Japanese sea lion ... *** Japanese sea lion, Z. japonicus - extinct (1950s) *** Galapagos ...11 KB (1,599 words) - 02:40, 21 April 2023
- in seven genera commonly known either as sea lions or fur seals. ... *** †Japanese sea lion, Z. japonicus--extinct (1950s) ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 01:25, 16 January 2023
- The Sea of Okhotsk (Russian: Охо́тское мо́ре; English ... This expansive sea—611,000 square miles (1,583,000 sq km)—is considered ...21 KB (3,208 words) - 17:32, 25 January 2023
- of the unicorn has a billy-goat beard, a lion's tail, and cloven hooves ... unicorn, as does the narwhal, which, while a sea animal, has the only type ...12 KB (1,900 words) - 23:41, 8 November 2023
- Russian Kamchatka Peninsula, separating the Sea of Okhotsk on the west from ... . The notable example is the now extinct Japanese Sea Lion which was ...30 KB (4,467 words) - 04:39, 4 March 2023
- Fur trade first annihilated the sea otter and then focused on the ... In 1942, Japanese forces occupied Attu and Kiska Islands in the western ...17 KB (2,491 words) - 05:11, 17 June 2023
- (skunks), as well as the pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses). ... attempting to drive bears from kills. The sea otter uses rocks to break ...13 KB (1,923 words) - 18:44, 17 April 2023
- quot; in his book, Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire.Quan Nhu, [http://www ... in French, Chinese, Sanskrit, Pali, Japanese, and English, in addition ...19 KB (2,907 words) - 18:34, 30 April 2023
- representing each of the four seas: The East Sea (corresponding to the East ... *The eighth son is called suanni, which looks like a lion and likes ...21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- , April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared ... Toshirō Mifune was born April 1, 1920, in Qingdao, China, to Japanese ...28 KB (4,179 words) - 04:42, 1 May 2023
- In the native Japanese religion Shinto, salt is used for ritual purification ... Historically, there have been two main sources for common salt: sea ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 15:04, 27 April 2023
- and Greenland to Iceland, the Barents Sea and as far south as the Bay ... the food chain, it too may be preyed upon by sea lions, orcas, sharks, and ...23 KB (3,573 words) - 13:25, 24 January 2023
- * Tsukimi (月見; Moon-Viewing), Japanese variant of the Mid-Autumn ... * Performance of dragon and lion dances, popular in southern China ...32 KB (4,726 words) - 17:31, 9 November 2022
- even after it was conquered by the Japanese Satsuma clan in 1609, serving ... region of Japan and wildlife is abundant. Sea turtles return yearly to the ...37 KB (5,344 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- the founder of Nichiren Buddhism, a major Japanese Buddhist stream encompassing ... banish him to Sado, an island in the Japan Sea known for its particularly ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War ... on in Luzon, situated in a plain between sea and mountains, missionaries ...20 KB (2,841 words) - 08:18, 20 September 2023
- in most cases recover, aircraft, acting as a sea-going airbase. Aircraft carriers ... As "runways at sea," modern aircraft carriers have a flat ...53 KB (8,096 words) - 07:01, 16 June 2023
- supporting the undersea palace of the East Sea Dragon King, which he pulled ... * Red-Boy, or Holy Baby King (pinyin: Hóng-hái'ér; Japanese: ...24 KB (3,989 words) - 01:59, 8 September 2022
- were superseded as the deciding factor at sea by aircraft carriers. The ... from the cogs which traded in the North Sea and Baltic, had an advantage ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- Sightings are often similar to some sea monsters. Of these, Nessie ... is the primal monster of the waters of the sea and Ziz the primordial monster ...32 KB (4,984 words) - 22:44, 10 November 2022
- over a thousand kilometers along the Yellow Sea, with the Yangtze River passing ... through north Jiangsu to reach the Yellow Sea, became the border between ...28 KB (3,971 words) - 20:38, 3 April 2024
- island and the first animal he saw was a lion. He named the island Singapura ... bore the Javanese name Temasek (which means sea town). Temasek became a significant ...31 KB (4,282 words) - 00:11, 29 December 2023
- -figure in Zen mythology and in Japanese and Chinese paintings, together ... :A fox might ape a lion's mien :and claim the disguise is real, ...19 KB (3,199 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2021
- in the Panthera genus, along with the lion (Panthera leo), jaguar (Panthera ... being a cross between a male Panthera leo (lion), and a female Panthera tigris ...34 KB (5,273 words) - 03:13, 4 November 2022
- summer of 1940 to invade Britain (Operation Sea Lion), while Britain made ... ;Sino-Japanese war [[Image:Ww2-asia-overview.png|thumb|left|250px|Overview ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- the special forces that penetrated behind Japanese lines in Burma, pioneering ... units were being mechanized. On the sea journey home from Egypt he ...43 KB (6,762 words) - 01:10, 18 November 2022
- at a depth of 30 km (19 mi) below mean sea level (initially reported ... wide, located 30 km (19 mi) beneath the sea bed—the longest rupture ...44 KB (6,499 words) - 06:40, 13 June 2023
- than 10,000 seabirds, dolphins, seals, and sea lions. As a reaction to this ... to observe Earth Day by ringing the Japanese Peace Bell, which was donated ...28 KB (3,976 words) - 17:35, 12 February 2024
- 039;s nickname Pearl of the Orient on top; a sea lion in the middle, in reference ... evening of New Year's Day of 1942, a Japanese courier delivered notice ...50 KB (7,354 words) - 02:55, 6 November 2022
- condor and the llama. The puma, or mountain lion, was revered by the Incas ... political asylum in Japan based on his Japanese citizenship. ...46 KB (6,833 words) - 23:21, 26 August 2023
- bounded also by the Bering Strait and Bering Sea on the West and the Pacific ... object toward which the action of the sea is directed." ...74 KB (11,051 words) - 04:34, 17 June 2023
- silk paintings from their Chinese or Japanese counterparts. ... a shiny white paint is made using ground sea shells. The paint is applied ...37 KB (5,882 words) - 20:18, 3 May 2023
- one inscription described him as "a lion-man; he tore the enemy with ... Cambodia civil war. Since 1993, French, Japanese, and UNESCO have cooperated ...32 KB (4,644 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- in animal life: elephant seals, fur seals, sea lions, and species of penguin ... whale, a major tourist draw for naturalists. Sea fish include sardines, hake ...44 KB (6,290 words) - 17:44, 4 January 2024
- army was being supplied and supported by sea. Using the fleet they might ... army while the Persian navy was defeated at sea. Another theory is that the ...47 KB (7,440 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- in 1906 for his mediation of the Russo-Japanese War—the first American ... his most influential book, The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783 ...46 KB (7,173 words) - 17:59, 30 April 2023
- - Project Gutenberg eText 12536.png|200px|A Sea-Change. Tory chorus (to Winston ... quot; when the only noticeable action was at sea. Churchill advocated the preemptive ...65 KB (10,388 words) - 23:13, 17 May 2023
- |nickname = Lions [[Image:Columbia university lion mascot.jpg|30px|]] ... who wrote on the significance of sea power, and progressive intellectual ...35 KB (5,049 words) - 22:45, 7 January 2024
- the Continental Divide drains west into the Sea of Cortez via the Colorado River. ... Filipino, Korean, Southeast Asian, and Japanese descent. ...37 KB (5,383 words) - 22:39, 7 January 2024
- pave the way for an invasion, Operation Sea Lion, or to persuade the British ... much of the Baltic territories spanning to the Black Sea. ...65 KB (9,573 words) - 18:36, 30 April 2023
- Japan; it failed to act against the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the ... interrupt economic relations as well as sea, air, postal, and radio communications ...68 KB (9,754 words) - 11:45, 3 May 2023
- (Strabo 11; Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, Chap. 41/47): ... The Mathura lion capital inscription attests that they adopted the ...61 KB (8,976 words) - 19:50, 4 March 2024
- of water (the Bering Strait, the Baltic Sea, and La Pérouse Strait, respectively ... are part of the open oceans; the Barents Sea, White Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- by fencing in and plowing under the "sea of grass" on which the ... as a top-secret wartime code that the Japanese could never break. These ...63 KB (9,067 words) - 09:27, 11 March 2023
- surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the ... is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the ...123 KB (18,096 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- The only large plains are found along the coast of the Caspian Sea ... the mountain slopes rising from the Caspian Sea, with stands of oak, ash, ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 11:17, 6 March 2024
- above sea level and is surrounded by mountains and volcanoes that ... hyena, hippos, jaguar, giraffe, lemur, lion, among others. ...184 KB (26,093 words) - 20:54, 1 February 2024
