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  1. Shark
    A flavorful, low-fat fish that includes varieties such as Leopard, Mako, Spiny Dogfish, Soupfin and Thresher. Shark meat tends to have an ammonia-like smell that can be eliminated by soaking the flesh in milk or acidulated water.
    Found on http://www.nutribase.com

  2. shark
    [n] - a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest 2. [n] - a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways 3. [n] - any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales 4. [v] - play the shark 5. [v] - hunt shark
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Shark
    Series of wheeled armoured vehicles, Mowag [SZ]
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  4. SHARK
    British codename for Enigma encrypted German Naval U-boat traffic
    Found on http://www.psywar.co.uk/glossary.php

  5. Shark
    Shark noun [ Of uncertain origin; perhaps through Old French from carcharus a kind of dogfish, Greek karchari`as , so called from its sharp teeth, from ka`rcharos having sharp or jagged teeth; or perhaps named from its rapacit...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/82

  6. Shark
    Shark transitive verb [ Of uncertain origin; perhaps from shark , noun , or perhaps related to English shear (as hearken to hear ), and originally meaning, to clip off. Confer Shirk .] To pick or gather indiscriminately or covertly. [ Obsolete] Shak.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/82

  7. Shark
    Shark intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Sharked ; present participle & verbal noun Sharking .] 1. To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle. &...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/82

  8. shark
    1. <zoology> Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas. ... Some sharks, as the basking shark and the whale shark, grow to an enormous size, the former becoming forty feet or more, and the latter sixty feet or more, in length. most of them a...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  9. shark
    noun any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  10. shark
    noun a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways; `a card shark`
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  11. Shark
    • (v. t. & i.) A rapacious, artful person; a sharper. • (v. t. & i.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas. • (v. i.) To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle. • (v. i.) To live by shifts and strat...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  12. shark
    any of numerous species of cartilaginous fishes of predatory habit that constitute the order Selachii (class Chondrichthyes).[15 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/76

  13. Shark
    Shark is slang for a lawyer.
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  14. Shark
    Shark is slang for a lawyer.
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  15. Shark
    HMS Shark was a British Sealion Class submarine of 715 tons displacement launched during the early 1940's and sunk during the Second World War. HMS Shark was armed with one 3-inch gun; one 20 mm anti-aircraft gun; three machine-guns; six 21-inch torpedo tubes in the bow and one external 21 inch torp...
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  16. shark
    shark, member of a group of almost exclusively marine and predaceous fishes. There are about 250 species of sharks, ranging from the 2-ft (60-cm) pygmy shark to 50-ft (15-m) giants. They are found in all seas, but are most abundant in warm waters. Some may enter large rivers, and one ferocious fresh...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A08447

  17. Shark
    The shark is a large group of marine fish with cartilaginous skeletons.
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  18. shark
    Click images to enlargeAny member of various orders of cartilaginous fishes (class Chondrichthyes), found throughout the oceans of the world. There are about 400 known species of shark. They have tough, usually grey skin covered in denticles (small toothlike scales). A shark's streamlined body has side pectoral fins, ...
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  19. Shark
    A cheater, or an extremely skilled card player. Slang.
    Found on http://www.gamblingplanet.org/Gambling-G

  20. shark
    a type of fish that has a skeleton made of cartilage, breathes through gill slits on the sides of its head and is covered with special scales called "placoid" scales; closely related to the ray and the skate
    Found on http://www.pbs.org/kqed/oceanadventures/

  21. Shark
    `Sharks` (superorder `Selachimorpha`) are a type of fish with a full cartilaginous skeleton and a highly streamlined body. The earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago.<ref name="RQGT"> in length, to the whale shark, Rhincodon typus, the largest fish, which...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark

  22. SHARK
    In cryptography, `SHARK` is a block cipher identified as one of the predecessors of Rijndael (the Advanced Encryption Standard). SHARK has a 64-bit block size and a 128-bit key size. It is a six round SP-network which alternates a key mixing stage with linear and non-linear transformation layers. Th...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARK

  23. Shark
    (moth) `The Shark` (Cucullia umbratica) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout Europe, but has recently also been reported from North America, from the Magdalen Islands in Canada. This is a fairly large species (wingspan 52-59 mm) with long, narrow wings giving...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark

  24. Shark
    (comics) `Shark` is the name of three fictional characters in DC Comics publications. Shark (World War II frogman): --> The first Shark is a non-superpowered commando. Along with his other companions named Sardine and Whale, he is part of the World War II-era fighting unit called the Frogmen....
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark

  25. Shark
    (TV series) `Shark` is an American legal drama created by Ian Biederman that originally aired on CBS from September 21, 2006 to May 20, 2008. The series stars James Woods. Synopsis: The show revolves around Sebastian Stark (Woods), a notorious Los Angeles defense attorney who becomes d...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark



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12 February 2012

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/calendar/ On February 12, 1809, Charles Robert Darwin was born at The Mount in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. Darwin was one of the last of the eclectic scientists who preceded the age of professional specialization. His genius lay in his ability to select, from the facts which he so diligently collected, every relevant point and fit it into his bold and far-reaching theories. He was not the first to advance a theory of evolution; but his massive weight of evidence carried conviction where earlier theorists had failed. He was shy and modest and shrank from controversy, an unfortunate trait in the author of the most controversial book of the century. read more

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