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    The sea monk (also monk-fish or monkfish) was a sea creature found off the eastern coast of the Danish island of Zealand in 1546. It was described as...
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    The Monk by the Sea (German: Der Mönch am Meer) is an oil painting by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich. It was painted between 1808 and...
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    dark gray in females. Monk seals are found in the Hawaiian archipelago, certain areas in the east Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea (such as Cabo Blanco and...
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    The Hawaiian monk seal is one of two extant monk seal species; the other is the Mediterranean monk seal. A third species, the Caribbean monk seal, is extinct...
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    Umibōzu (redirect from Sea bonze)
    in the ocean who washed ashore. Usually called the "sea monk" (umi means sea and bōzu means monk), umibōzu has no ties to religion in any of its actions...
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  • Monk is an American police procedural comedy drama detective television series that originally ran on the USA Network from July 12, 2002, to December 4...
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    The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) is a monk seal belonging to the family Phocidae. As of 2015[update], it is estimated that fewer than 700...
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    Sea monsters reported first or second hand include: A giant octopus by Pliny (not to be confused with the documented Giant Pacific octopus) Sea monk Various...
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    The Caribbean monk seal (Neomonachus tropicalis), also known as the West Indian seal or sea wolf, is an extinct species of seal native to the Caribbean...
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    of Architeuthis, suggested a giant squid was the species described as a sea monk to the Danish king Christian III circa 1550. The Lusca of the Caribbean...
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    The monk parakeet (Myiopsitta monachus), also known as the monk parrot or Quaker parrot, is a species of true parrot in the family Psittacidae. It is...
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    The Monks, referred to by the name monks on record sleeves, were an American rock band formed in Gelnhausen, West Germany, in 1964. Assembled by five American...
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  • Hippocamp Leviathan Jormungand Kraken Mermaid / Merman Nereid Sea monk Sea monster Sea serpent Selkie Shen Siren Tritons Umibōzu Water Dragon Yacuruna...
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    including devils, angels and dragons. Some writers have suggested the sea monk may have been a Jenny Haniver. The earliest known picture of Jenny Haniver...
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    monk famed as a traveller and translator. His account of his travels are an important source for the history of the medieval kingdoms along the sea route...
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  • Monkfish may also refer to: Inspector Monkfish, a fictional character Sea monk, a marine monster of the Renaissance Squatina squatina, a shark with an...
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    Bishop-fish (redirect from Sea bishop)
    Oannes (mythology) Jenny Haniver Sea monk Heuvelmans Bernard (2003). The Kraken and the Colossal Octopus: In the Wake of Sea-Monsters. London: Kegan Paul...
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  • Inspector William Monk is a fictional character created by the writer Anne Perry and hero of a series of books. Monk was born in Northumberland shortly...
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    Pinniped (redirect from Sea-calf)
    Japanese sea lion and the Caribbean monk seal have become extinct in the past century, while the Mediterranean monk seal and Hawaiian monk seal are ranked...
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    Gessner, 1558:519, fig. for sea monk depiction published therein). #1 (c. 1546) Painted woodcuts of the sea monk (#1; left) and sea bishop (the latter also...
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    loggerhead sea turtles in Europe. The Alboran Sea also hosts important commercial fisheries, including sardines and swordfish. The Mediterranean monk seals...
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    time (c. 1550s) carried entries on the mermaid-like monk-fish (sea monk) and the bishopfish (sea bishop), and Gudger suspected these were misinformation...
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  • Sea-bee (Heraldic) – Fish-tailed bee Sea-lion Sea monk (Medieval folklore) – Fish-like humanoid Sea monster (Worldwide) – Giant, marine animals Sea serpent...
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  • Straight, No Chaser is the sixth studio album Thelonious Monk recorded for Columbia records, released in 1967. The album was reissued on CD in 1996, including...
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    costume as Disney's Ariel. Fiji mermaid Goddess of the Sea (Visbal), sculpture Lorelei Sea monk Sirenia Mittman, Asa Simon; Dendle, Peter J (2016). The...
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    brown palette. Monk and Nun is one of Europe's historical roof tiles traditionally found in countries along or near the Mediterranean Sea: Portugal, Spain...
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    seals and sea lions of the family Otariidae. Seals live in the oceans of both hemispheres and, with the exception of the more tropical monk seals, are...
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    2009, Howard played Natalie Teeger in the USA Network television series Monk. She has also starred on the sitcoms Boston Common (1996–1997) and Two Guys...
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    George Edwin William Monk (a.k.a. Ed Monk, Sr.) (Jan 1, 1894 - Port Blakely, Washington, to Jan 21, 1973) was a shipwright and naval architect in the Pacific...
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    frog-fish, and sea-devils, are various species of lophiid anglerfishes found in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Lophius is known as the "monk" or "monkfish"...
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