The Oyster Wars were a series of sometimes violent disputes between oyster pirates and authorities and legal watermen from Maryland and Virginia in the...
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nineteenth century into the twentieth century during the Oyster Wars. Oyster Wars San Leandro Oyster Beds "John Barleycorn: Chapter VII". 2006-04-10. Archived...
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An oyster bar, also known as an oyster saloon, oyster house or a raw bar service, is a restaurant specializing in serving oysters, or a section of a restaurant...
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Hunter Davidson (category People of Virginia in the American Civil War)
the American Civil War. He later served as the first commander of the Maryland Oyster Police Force during the height of the Oyster Wars. Davidson was born...
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Examples include the European flat oyster, eastern oyster, Olympia oyster, Pacific oyster, and the Sydney rock oyster. Ostreidae evolved in the Early Triassic...
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Pleurotus ostreatus (redirect from Tree Oyster Mushroom)
Pleurotus ostreatus, the oyster mushroom, oyster fungus, hiratake, or pearl oyster mushroom is a common edible mushroom. It is one of the more commonly...
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"Veteran of the Psychic Wars" is a song by the American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult. It was written by Eric Bloom and British author Michael Moorcock...
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The Cod Wars (Icelandic: Þorskastríðin; also known as Landhelgisstríðin, lit. 'The Coastal Wars'; German: Kabeljaukriege) were a series of 20th-century...
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Chesapeake Bay (redirect from Depletion of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay)
by John Barth. The Oyster Wars of Chesapeake Bay (1997) by John Wennersten, on the Oyster Wars in the decades following the Civil War. The Bay, a 2012 found...
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Blue Öyster Cult (/ˈɔɪ.stər/ OY-stər; sometimes abbreviated BÖC or BOC) is an American rock band formed on Long Island, New York, in the hamlet of Stony...
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Conflicts Bering Sea Arbitration Cod Wars Crab Wars Lobster War Newlyn riots Oyster Wars Pacific Salmon War Turbot War Disasters and memorials 1959 Escuminac...
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Oyster Bay is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) within the town of Oyster Bay on the North Shore of Long Island in Nassau County in the state...
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poachers escalated to armed conflicts with law authorities, including the Oyster Wars of the Chesapeake Bay and the joint US-British Bering Sea Anti-Poaching...
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Conflicts Bering Sea Arbitration Cod Wars Crab Wars Lobster War Newlyn riots Oyster Wars Pacific Salmon War Turbot War Disasters and memorials 1959 Escuminac...
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The eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica)—also called the Atlantic oyster, American oyster, or East Coast oyster—is a species of true oyster native to...
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An oyster pail (also known as a paper pail, Chinese food box or Chinese takeout container) is a folded, waxed or plastic coated, paperboard container originally...
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present, which includes the period of the so-called "Oyster Wars" and the precipitous decline of the oyster industry at the end of the twentieth century. The...
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began to overtake fishing in economic importance following the Second World War. Today, Peggy's Cove is a major tourist attraction, although its inhabitants...
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Conflicts Bering Sea Arbitration Cod Wars Crab Wars Lobster War Newlyn riots Oyster Wars Pacific Salmon War Turbot War Disasters and memorials 1959 Escuminac...
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The Town of Oyster Bay is the easternmost of the three towns that make up Nassau County, New York, United States. Part of the New York metropolitan area...
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1993 Cherbourg incident Cod Wars Lobster War Canada–Spain relations "Province welcomes Canadian victory in Turbot War case". Executive Council. Archived...
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Julia Hamilton (schooner) (category World War I patrol vessels of the United States)
to licenses turned to open "warfare" in the "oyster wars" when a fleet of state vessels fought "oyster pirates" in armed conflicts. That force became...
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Dancing Molly (category Oyster sloops)
The Dancing Molly was a pirate sloop famous during the Chesapeake Oyster Wars (1865-1959) for humiliating Virginia Governor William E. Cameron as he personally...
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mammalia. Common aquatic species found in the bay include: cuttlefish (mực); oyster (hào); cyclinae (ngán); prawns (penaeidea (tôm he), panulirus (tôm hùm)...
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industry. However the pilchard shoals began to decline, and after World War I tourism became the mainstay of the economy. Port Isaac's pier was constructed...
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ctv1prss4r. ISBN 978-0-8165-4499-8. "Riparian Rights and Oyster Wars on the Delaware Bay", Oyster Wars and the Public Trust, University of Arizona Press, pp...
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The Essential Blue Öyster Cult is a greatest hits album by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult originally released on 1 April 2003, and later reissued...
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considered part of the continental shelf. Brazil claimed that lobsters are like oysters in that they cling to the bottom of the ocean and so were part of the continental...
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area was at the center of the Potomac River Oyster Wars between Virginia watermen and the Maryland State Oyster Police that lasted from the late 19th century...
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