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  • 11Macassan contact with Australia — Macassan trepangers from the southwest corner of Sulawesi (formerly Cele bes) visited the coast of northern Australia for hundreds of years to fish for trepang (also known as sea cucumber or sandfish ), a marine invertebrate prized for its… …

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  • 12Wattle bagworm — Taxobox name = Wattle bagworm status = secure regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Lepidoptera familia = Psychidae genus = Kotochalia species = K. junodi binomial = Kotochalia junodi binomial authority = (Heylaerts)The… …

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  • 13Belostomatidae — Taxobox name = Belostomatidae image width = 250px image caption = Abedus indentatus male with eggs on its back regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hemiptera infraordo = Nepomorpha familia = Belostomatidae subdivision… …

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  • 14Prietella — Taxobox name = Prietella regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Actinopterygii ordo = Siluriformes familia = Ictaluridae genus = Prietella genus authority = Carranza, 1954 type species = Prietella phreatophila type species authority =… …

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  • 15Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen — Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum …

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  • 16Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die — Infobox Film name = Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die image size = 100px caption = director = Laurence Jarvik producer = writer = narrator = starring = music = cinematography = editing = distributor = released = 1982 runtime = 90 min. country =… …

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  • 17rice the water — to throw plants and branches into a river in order to frighten salmon before using a spear or leister. The effect is to stupefy the fish so they lie motionless …

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  • 18hister beetle — ▪ insect       any of approximately 3,900 species of beetles (insect order Coleoptera) that are carnivorous and are usually found around carrion, fungi, or dung. Some species occur under bark in dead trees, whereas others burrow in sand or live… …

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  • 19Makassan contact with Australia — A Macassan wooden sailing vessel or prau. Macassan or more correctly Makassar trepangers from the southwest corner of Sulawesi (formerly Celebes) visited the coast of northern Australia for hundreds of years to process trepang (also known as sea… …

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  • 20heave to — ˈ ̷ ̷ˈtü transitive verb : to bring (a ship) by the wind with after sheets in and headsails aback so as to make no headway but to lie motionless except for drift intransitive verb : to heave a ship to decided to heave to until daylight before… …

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