In the past, the most common way for passengers and freight to cross the strait was on a ferry. This was about a four-hour journey. However, in 1954, the Japanese ship Toya Maru sank in the Tsugaru Strait and many people died, this was because the weather was not good. This was another reason the people wanted the Seikan Tunnel to be made.
William van der Gouwen
Gilliam van der Gouwen (ca. 1657, Antwerp - buried on 15 March 1716, Amsterdam) was a Flemish engraver. He worked most of his life in the Dutch Republic.
He made mane title pages, maps and book illustrations for books published in Amsterdam. A print of a "Beached whale near Berckhey" is one of his artworks.
Bungo Channel
The is a strait separating the Japanese islands of Kyūshū and Shikoku. It connects the Pacific Ocean and Seto Inland Sea. The narrowest part of this channel is the Hōyo Strait.
The Bungo Strait is featured in the 1958 World War II submarine film "Run Silent, Run Deep". The movie is based upon the 1955 novel by Edward L. Beach, Jr.
MC Lyte
MC Lyte (born Lana Michelle Moorer; October 11 1970) is an American rap musician. She first became famous in the late 1980s by being the first solo female rap recording artist to release a whole record, starting with 1988's critically acclaimed "Lyte as a Rock". She has carried many hit singles over the years. She was born near Brooklyn, New York.
Spotted eagle ray
The spotted eagle ray, ("Aetobatus narinari"), is a species of cartilaginous fish, in the eagle ray group. It can be found in tropical waters, including Hawaii, the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of west Africa, Oceania, and the Indian Ocean.
Spotted eagle rays are around 17 to 35 cm wide at birth, but adults can be as long as 16 ft (5 meters), and have the wingspan of 3 meters (10 ft). An adult weighs 180 to 225 kg. The heaviest ever recorded weighed 230 kg. They have flat disk-shaped bodies, the top is dark blue or black in colour and is covered in white spots, and the belly is white. Spotted eagle rays also have flat snouts which look like a duck's bill.
They have a long tail which is longer than most other ray's tails, and they have 2-6 venomous spines right behind their pelvic fins.
Spotted eagle rays prefer to swim in waters with the temperature of 24 to 27 °C (75 to 81 °F), and are more active during high tides. They are shy animals and usually avoid humans, but they have been seen leaping out of the water onto boats and landing on people. They search for their food by digging their snouts into the sand on the sea beds. Groups of them are made up of around 6 members swimming in the same direction, at exactly the same speed.
Spotted eagle rays eat crustaceans including shrimp, prawns and crabs, molluscs like octopuses, clams and oysters.
Spotted eagle rays are viviparous, meaning they give live birth. Females are pregnant for around 1 year before giving birth to about 2-4 young which are 17 to 35 cm long. Spotted eagle rays mature at the age of 4 to 6 years old. Spotted Eagle Rays live for around 15–20 years.
The predators of the spotted eagle ray are mainly sharks like the tiger shark, the lemon shark, the bull shark, the great hammerhead shark, and the silvertip shark. These sharks are known to follow female spotted eagle rays during the breeding season and eat the newborn babies.
Spotted eagle rays live in shallow, coastal waters and coral reefs in tropical regions, including Hawaii, the Gulf of Mexico, Oceania, west Africa, the Indian Ocean and the west coast of the United States of America. They are found down to the depths of 80 meters. They can be found in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of North Carolina, down to Florida, in the Gulf Stream, in the Caribbean, and down pass the southern part of Brazil. In can also be found in the Pacific Ocean, from the Red Sea to South Africa, and northern Japan and Australia.
The spotted eagle ray is also called the ""White-spotted eagle eay"", the ""bonnet skate"", the ""Bonnet ray"", the ""Duck-billed ray"", and the ""Spotted Duck-billed ray"".
Hecht
Hecht is a surname. Some people with this surname are:
Tsushima Strait
, also known as the Korea Strait, is a narrow body of water between Japan and South Korea. The name is used in two ways. It is used generally to describe the ocean area between Korea and Japan; and it also identifies the sea passage between the islands of Kyushu and Tsushima.
The strait links the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan in the northwest Pacific Ocean. Tsushima Island is between the western channel (Korea Strait) and the eastern channel (Tsushima Strait).
Depending on usage, the northern shore of the strait is the eastern coast of the Korean peninsula or it may mean the eastern coast of Tsushima. The southern shores of the strait are the western coasts of Kyūshū and Honshū.
A warm current ("Tsushima-kairyū") runs through the straight from south to north.
Palenquero
Palenquero is a Spanish-African Creole language spoken in Colombia. Is it spoken primarily in the Northern and the Caribbean parts of Colombia; the palenque villages and their diasporas.
Palenquero, just like in the other Spanish-Based Caribbean Creoles, has influences from the contact between European masters and African slaves. In the case of Palenquero, it has been accepted that the maroons (escaped slaves) moved in somewhere in the mountains, along with some Native Americans. The maroons had very little contact with their masters, which led to them having to blend their African substrate languages with the Spanish European ones.
Palenquero has a lot of African influence in its sounds, phonetics, syntax, grammar, vocabulary, and a lot of words.
Lord's Prayer
The African languages that have had the most dominant influence on Palenquero is the languages of the Bantu, specifically the Kongo.
Cuban Creole Oriental is very similar to Palenquero. They even share some words.
Many of the Spanish-based Creoles can be compared to the other Creoles of the Americas, where there has been the blending of African and European languages.
Tsushima Island
Tsushima Island (対馬, "Tsushima") is a Japanese island in the waters between South Korea and Japan.
Beginning in the early 6th century, the island was a province of Japan, It was called Tsushima Province. In the Meiji period, the island and the province became part of Nagasaki Prefecture.
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder in the Orient Express is a book by Agatha Christie. The book was published in 1934. In the book, the detective Hercule Poirot has to solve a murder that happens onboard the Orient Express train.
Charlie Rose
Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose, Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American talk show host and journalist. He hosted his own show "Charlie Rose" from 1991 to 2017. He was born in Henderson, North Carolina, on January 5 1942. Rose went to Duke University. He married Mary King in 1962. They divorced in 1980. He currently lives in New York City, New York.
In November 2017, CBS fired Rose and PBS cancelled his program after eight women accused him of sexual harassment.
Dominique Swain
Dominique Swain (born August 12 1980 in Malibu, California) is an American actress. She has been in many movies. She is best known for her role as the title character in the 1997 drama "Lolita". Swain also played Jamie Archer in the movie "Face/Off".
Charlie Daniels
Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels (October 28, 1936 – July 6, 2020) was an American country singer-songwriter and musician. He played a fiddle and country rock music. His best known song was "The Devil Went Down to Georgia".
He was honored into the Cheyenne Frontier Days Hall of Fame in 2002, the Grand Ole Opry in 2008, the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2009, and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2016.
Daniels was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. Daniels was married to Hazel Daniels from 1963 until his death. They had a son, Charlie Daniels, Jr., and three grandchildren.