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  • 111fine — [ fin ] n. f. • XIXe; de 2. fin ♦ Eau de vie de raisin de qualité supérieure. ⇒ cognac. Fine champagne (la Champagne désignant une région autour de Cognac). Une bouteille de fine. Verre de fine. Garçon, une fine ! Une fine à l eau. ⊗ HOM. Fines,… …

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  • 112Simon Anderson — (born 7 July 1954) is an Australian surfer and surfboard shaper, noted for creating the Thruster design of three equal sized fins on a surfboard, a design now used on practically every shortboard made.Anderson grew up in Collaroy, Sydney, the… …

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  • 113PRÉCONTINENT — La marge externe des continents, actuellement recouverte par l’océan, n’est pas seulement la transition entre deux types de paysages: elle est originale, aussi bien par son plan et ses formes que par l’usage que l’homme peut en faire. Notre… …

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  • 114Ocean sunfish — This article is about the ocean sunfish, Mola mola. For other fishes known as sunfish , see Sunfish (disambiguation). Ocean sunfish Sunfish, Nordsøen Oceanarium, Hirtshals, Denmark Conser …

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  • 115Shark finning — is the controversial process of removing shark fins to provide the ingredients for the popular Asian dish of shark fin soup. TOC According to wildlife conservationists, much of the trade in sharks fins is derived from fins cut from living sharks; …

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  • 116Grid fin — Grid fins (or lattice fins) are a type of flight control surface used on missiles and bombs in place of more conventional control surfaces, such as planar fins. They have been used since the 1970s in various Soviet ballistic missile designs such… …

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  • 117paracanthopterygian — ▪ fish Introduction       any member of the superorder Paracanthopterygii, a predatory, primarily marine group that forms one of about six major branches of the Teleostei (teleost), or bony fishes, the dominant modern aquatic vertebrates.… …

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  • 118Shark fin soup — Chinese pic=Sharksfin.jpg|picsize=250px|picc l=Fish fin|t=|s=鱼翅|j=jyu4 ci3|p=yú chì|w=yü ch4Shark fin soup (or shark s fin soup) is a Chinese cuisine delicacy since Ming Dynasty, commonly served as part of a Chinese feast, usually at special… …

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  • 119fine — fin, fine 2. (fin, fi n ) adj. 1°   Qui est à l état de pureté, épuré. Or, argent fin.    Terme de monnaie et d orfévrerie. Or fin, l or parfaitement pur.    Bijoux demi fins, bijoux dont l or est mêlé de moitié d alliage.    S. m. C est du fin,… …

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  • 120Free-diving — Free diver with monofin, ascending. Freediving is any of various aquatic activities that share the practice of breath hold underwater diving. Examples include breathhold spear fishing, freedive photography, apnea competitions and, to a degree,… …

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