TASK 28
Unlike barnacles, which fasten themselves tightly to rocks or piers, mussels use silky fibers, called byssus threads....
http://www.livescience.com/38375-how...-surfaces.html
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TASK 28
Unlike barnacles, which fasten themselves tightly to rocks or piers, mussels use silky fibers, called byssus threads....
http://www.livescience.com/38375-how...-surfaces.html
Task 29
I have found nothing about any German Uboat accidents in ports. Please tell me where you found this.
I just about gave up, then started searching for submarine bases in cold places. Russian, Norweigen, Iceland... I got really lucky to find the port on google maps by blind luck.
The port is outside of Gadzhiyevo,near Murmansk Russia. And from what I understand, it wasnt there in WWII. So how could a German VIIC have an accident in port there? Very confusing.
Please give me a link to where you found the story on the a German VIIC accident in port.
weird creatures today:
The beast. It drops to the earth, if it's above it. Above, there is it twice a lifetime. Because it's a subterranean plant sucker. Underground it guzzles itself for many many years. Until one gives the command to "Surface!". Then it runs upwards, a bluster of about a week begins that can give somebody a fright. It ends in a sex orgy, thereafter it dies. Everywhere in all over the world it has relatives who behave more 'normal' but today I ask for THIS special animal.
Task 30
It is a Cicada. there are many species that determine how often they come to the syrface and ding....anywhere from 1 to 17 years.
(Fun fact: I am from the eastern US originally. As a boy I used to run around my grandparents home, picking the cicada exoskeletons off the trees and sticking them on the screen door of the house to scare my Grandmother!)
the torpedo-proof vessel
The ship came into the world - ehm, water during the WW1. It came through the war and continued to sail. It also came through the WW2, but look how!
In the middle of the war the ship was stopped by a German U-boat, but was allowed to continue its voyage.
On a subsequent passage the ship was stopped by a German U-boat. All had to switch over to the lifeboats, the captain came under arrest, the tubes were prepared to sink the ship. But from the German capital a "No." turned up. - Collect all life boats, all embark again, good onward journey!
On a subsequent passage the ship was stopped by a German U-boat. All had to switch over to the lifeboats, the tubes were prepared to sink the ship. But from the German capital - ermmm, nothing turned up. Also no order to sink. - Collect all life boats (they already disappeared over the horizon), all embark again, good onward journey!
(For his negotiations with the Germans the captain has the command revoked later, because of 'arbitrary act'.^^)
Okay, before that another incident occurred: an a passage the Americans stopped the ship. All with anyhow German background had to leave the ship and were brought to the USA against their will. Good onward journey, to all the others!
Anyhow, at least there were no victims. The ship spent his remaining years on shorter routes but was allowed to attend a big-time sport's festival. It was euthanised in 1955.
Task 31
I think it is the Portuguese ship called the Serpa Pinto, which ferried refugees to the US. It started out with the name Ebro.
This question is out of rating and meaningless ;)
Tell us the player's nicknames of Mod_Zaruk and Mod_SubCruiser. Or guess.
Who wants to try it: also of Mod_zztorp and Mod_GuzzUK.
Time to answer: until 31st of October 2016, 11:59 p.m.