on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New York Stock Exchange. A core component of Big Oil, Shell is...
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Bash, short for Bourne-Again SHell, is a shell program and command language supported by the Free Software Foundation and first developed for the GNU...
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includes snails, clams, tusk shells, and several other classes. Not all shelled molluscs live in the sea; many live on the land and in freshwater. The...
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The tusk shells or tooth shells, technically the Scaphopoda /skæˈfɒpədə/ (the scaphopods /ˈskæfəpɒdz/, from Ancient Greek σκᾰ́φης skáphē "boat" and πούς...
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The gastropod shell is part of the body of a gastropod or snail, a kind of mollusc. The shell is an exoskeleton, which protects from predators, mechanical...
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with the shell. POSIX shells and other Unix shells allow background execution by using the & character at the end of command. In PowerShell, the Start-Process...
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across a flow cross section. A "shell" is a differential element of the flow. By looking at the momentum and forces on one small portion, it is possible...
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Scallop (redirect from Shell of Saint James)
The shell of a scallop consists of two sides or valves, a left valve and a right one, divided by a plane of symmetry. Most species of scallops rest on their...
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Brachiopod (redirect from Lamp shell)
Brachiopoda, are a phylum of trochozoan animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in...
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Tortoiseshell cat (redirect from Tortoise shell cat)
coat will be either entirely orange or melanistic (respectively XOY or XoY). Very rarely (approximately 1 in 3,000) a male tortoiseshell or calico is...
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The McQueen Shell Ring is a Late Archaic archaeological site off the coast of Georgia, notable for its surplus of copper artifacts recovered during multiple...
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Hermit crab (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
superfamily Paguroidea that have adapted to occupy empty scavenged mollusc shells to protect their fragile exoskeletons. There are over 800 species of hermit...
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Mozambique Channel, off the coast of Portuguese East Africa, becoming the sixth victim of Graf Spee's commerce raiding sortie. Africa Shell was designed and...
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Qana massacre (redirect from Qana Shelling)
took place on April 18, 1996, near Qana, a village in then Israeli-occupied Southern Lebanon, when the Israeli military fired artillery shells at a United...
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apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word slug is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a...
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Dismal Key (category Shell middens in Florida)
has many large artificial structures known as shell works, made of shells piled up by human activity. Shell works are found from Charlotte Harbor southward...
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Kanekotrochus infuscatus (redirect from Dusky jewel top shell)
occurs off Japan and the Philippines. "Kanekotrochus infuscatus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019. Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999)...
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Cartridge (firearms) (redirect from Shell casings)
cartridge concept as found in small arms. In other cases, the artillery shell is separate from the propellant charge. A cartridge without a projectile...
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Calliostoma soyoae (redirect from Soyo's top shell)
Calliostoma (Tristichotrochus) . The size of the shell varies between 10 mm and 25 mm. This marine species occurs off Japan and the Philippines. Calliostoma soyoae...
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explosive device such as an anti-personnel artillery shell or a nuclear weapon in the air instead of on contact with the ground or target. The principal military...
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Environment variable (redirect from Shell variable)
shells. %COPYCMD% (supported since MS-DOS 6.2 and PC DOS 6.3, also supported by ROM-DOS) Allows a user to specify the /Y switch (to assume "Yes" on queries)...
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he could load (e.g.) cartridge X or Y for a full service charge for his gun, and cartridge Z to fire a star shell. Cartridges were sometimes made up of...
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Bivalvia (section Mantle and shell)
predation. Others lie on the sea floor or attach themselves to rocks or other hard surfaces. Some bivalves, such as scallops and file shells, can swim. Shipworms...
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lightweight outer shell, called a sabot, raises the muzzle velocity. Once the shell clears the barrel, the sabot is no longer needed and falls off in pieces....
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An HRG is made using a thin solid-state hemispherical shell, anchored by a thick stem. This shell is driven to a flexural resonance by electrostatic forces...
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Gastropoda (section Shell)
on earth, having colonized nearly every available medium. In habitats where not enough calcium carbonate is available to build a really solid shell,...
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Aliger gigas (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
developmental age. The adult animal has a very large, solid and heavy shell, with knob-like spines on the shoulder, a flared, thick outer lip, and a characteristic...
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Wampum (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
Wampum is a traditional shell bead of the Eastern Woodlands tribes of Native Americans. It includes white shell beads hand-fashioned from the North Atlantic...
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