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Fish are aquatic vertebrates that are cold-blooded, covered with scales, and equipped with two sets of paired fins and several unpaired fins. Fish are abundant in the sea and in fresh water, with species being known from mountain streams (e.g., char and gudgeon) as well as in the deepest depths of the ocean (e.g., gulpers and anglerfish).
They are of tremendous importance as food for people around the world, either collected from the wild (see fishing) or farmed in much the same way as cattle or chickens (see aquaculture). Fish are also exploited for recreation, through angling and fishkeeping, and fish are commonly exhibited in public aquaria. Fish have an important role in many cultures through the ages, ranging as wide as deities and religious symbols to subjects of books and popular movies.

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The tropical mantis shrimp has the most sophisticated eyes of any creature on the planet, yet it often lives at murky depths where the only light is a filtered, dim blue. Why does it need such complex vision?
Marine biologists and physiologists have now discovered at least one use for these eyes in the deep, blue ocean: to see the fluorescent markings mantis shrimp use to signal or threaten one another.

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<SPAN class=caption>The mantis shrimp Lysiosquillina glabriuscula in threat posture, photographed near Key Largo. The stomatopod was photographed in blue light with a yellow filter (above) to show only the fluorescence, similar to what other mantis shrimp see at depth. At right is the same animal in white light, as would be seen near the surface.</SPAN><SPAN class=credit> (Credit: Roy Caldwell)
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A mantis shrimp tracks and captures a fish underwater in the Bahamas. The researchers used blue light to illuminate the scene, which stimulated the fluorescence of the shrimp's yellow patches. Download video </SPAN><SPAN class=credit>(Credit: Charles Mazel, PRI)

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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The shrimps' characteristic spots are easy to see in shallow water but only dimly visible 40 meters (131 feet) down, so on the ocean floor the crustacean's spots fluoresce yellow-green to enhance their prominence in the dim blue light.
Though fluorescence in marine animals is common - in corals and squid, for example - this is the first documented case of fluorescence used in signaling in the sea. Fluorescence occurs when a pigment absorbs one color of light, in this case blue, and emits a different color, such as yellow-green.
"If you look at this animal in shallow water or in bright white light, you pick out this set of yellow-green spots it uses in species recognition, and probably in mating as well - it's a typical signal that says, 'Here I am, I'm a Lysiosquillina glabriuscula,'" said marine biologist Roy Caldwell, professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley. "But this animal also occurs at 40 meters, where there's no yellow light for that pigment to reflect, so that species-specific signal should be gone. But when you go down to 40 meters and you look at it, the yellow spot is still there."
"The stomatopod (or mantis shrimp) apparently is using a yellow-green fluorescence to maintain visual constancy of a species-specific signal,"

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Maja Ivarsson, born 2 October 1979 in �hus, Sk�ne (in southern Sweden) is the lead singer with the Swedish New Wave band The Sounds. She plays the electric guitar (having taken it up age 14) and is a lyricist.

She was featured in Cobra Starship's single and music video "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)", for the 2006 film Snakes on a Plane. The widely advertised film gave an enormous amount of publicity to Maja and her band, especially in America.

The Sounds are active on the touring circuit, including the United States. Their first tour was in the wake of their 2003 smash "Living in America" (both the song and and the album), although their touring conditions were a far cry from the sheen of the video for the song. They have been to the "Southern Finland triangle" (Turku, Tampere and Helsinki) many times, but their tour in the fall of 2006 showcased them in additional inland and coastal towns.
An interviewer from the website Afterellen.com characterized Maja as "bisexual" and she accepted his description of her as "a member of the queer community."

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Armin Meiwes (born December 1, 1961) is a German cannibal who achieved international notoriety for eating and killing a voluntary victim he had found via the Internet. After attempting to eat the (then alive) victim's penis, Meiwes killed his victim, and continued to eat a large amount of his flesh.<SUP class=reference id=_ref-BodyShock_0>[3]</SUP> Because of his deeds, Meiwes is also known as the "Rotenburg Cannibal" or "Metzgermeister" (The Master Butcher).
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Meiwes posted an advertisement on the Internet, looking for a willing victim. The post stated that he was "looking for a well-built 18 to 30-year-old to be slaughtered and then consumed".<SUP class=reference id=_ref-news0_0>[4]</SUP> Bernd J�rgen Armando Brandes responded to the advert. Brandes was known for his interest in mutilation and his activity in the homosexual prostitution scene of his home city.

As is known from a videotape the two made when they met in March 2001 in Meiwes' home, Meiwes amputated Brandes' penis and the two men attempted to eat the penis together before Brandes was killed. Brandes had insisted that Meiwes attempt to bite his penis off. This did not work, so Meiwes used a knife. Brandes apparently tried to eat some of his own penis raw, but could not because it was too tough and, as he put it, "chewy". Meiwes then saut�ed the penis in a pan with salt, pepper, and garlic, but by then it was too burned to be consumed.<SUP class=reference id=_ref-BodyShock_1>[3]</SUP> According to journalists who saw the video (which has not been made public), Brandes may already have been too weakened from blood loss to actually eat any of his penis. Armin Meiwes read a Star Trek book for 3 hours whilst his victim was bleeding to death in the bath. Meiwes apparently gave him large quantities of alcohol and pain killers, and then killed him in a room that he had built in his house for this purpose. After stabbing Brandes to death in the throat, he hung the body on a meathook and tore hunks of flesh from it, he even tried to grind the bones to use as flour. The whole scene was recorded on the 2-hour video tape. Meiwes ate the body over the next few months, storing body parts in his freezer under pizza boxes and consuming up to 20kg of the flesh.

<H2><SPAN class=editsection>[edit]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Arrest, trial and conviction of manslaughter</SPAN></H2>
Meiwes was arrested in December 2002, after a man in Innsbruck phoned the police after seeing new advertisements for victims and details about the killing on the Internet. Investigators searched his home and found body parts and the videotaped killing.

Meiwes was later convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to eight and half years in prison. The case attracted considerable media attention and led to a debate over whether Meiwes could be convicted at all, given that Brandes had voluntarily and knowingly participated in the act; there were also complications as cannibalism itself was not illegal in Germany at the time.<SUP class=reference id=_ref-news1_1>[2]</SUP>

Meiwes has admitted what he has done, and expressed regret for his actions. He added he wanted to write a book of his life story with the aim of deterring anyone who wants to follow his steps. Surprisingly, a number of websites dedicated to Meiwes have appeared, with people advertising for willing victims. "They should go for treatment, so it doesn't escalate like it did with me," said Meiwes. He believes there are about 800 "cannibals" in Germany.<SUP class=reference id=_ref-news1_2>[2]</SUP>

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In April 2005, a German court ordered a retrial after prosecutors appealed his sentence. They believed he should have been convicted of murder, not manslaughter, and given a life sentence. Among the questions courts answered is whether Brandes agreed to his killing, and whether he was legally capable of doing so at the moment of killing, taking into account his apparent mental problems as well as his significant intake of alcohol and other drugs. Other aspects of the retrial determined whether Meiwes killed to satiate his own desires (in particular sexual desires), and not because he was asked to, which Meiwes has repeatedly rejected during testimony. At his retrial a psychologist stated that Meiwes could reoffend and still "had fantasies about devouring the flesh of young people."<SUP class=reference id=_ref-1>[5]</SUP> On 9 May 2006, a court in Frankfurt convicted Meiwes of murder and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

<H2><SPAN class=editsection>[edit]</SPAN> <SPAN class=mw-headline>Similar case</SPAN></H2>
A similar Internet-mediated consensual homicide is the 1996 case of Sharon Lopatka, who sought and found a man named Robert Frederick Glass who would torture and kill her by strangling her to death.

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The song "Mein Teil" by German Tanz-Metal band Rammstein was inspired by the case. "Teil" translates literally to "part," but is German slang for penis. The chorus of "Mein Teil" (My Part) includes the line, "Denn du bist was du isst und ihr wisst was es ist ," which translates to "You are what you eat and you know what it is."

Other songs inspired by Meiwes' story include "The W�stenfeld Man Eater" by American death/thrash metal band Macabre, "Eaten" by Swedish death metal band Bloodbath, "Cannibal Anthem" by German dark electro project Wumpscut, "Flock of Penis" by German metal band Sonder Angebot, and "Cannibal Cafe" by Italian streetpunk band The Arrogants.

Rock artist Marilyn Manson has identified Meiwes as inspirational in the titling of his album, Eat Me, Drink Me. Manson explained in an article what this story meant to him: "Although I can't relate to the relationship those two had, I found the story very compelling in a romantic way. I think a lot of people wouldn�t look at it as romantic, but it was to them in some sick way, and it is to me in some sick way, too."<SUP class=reference id=_ref-2>[6]</SUP>

Feature film Butterfly: A Grimm Love Story (aka Rohtenburg) was scheduled for German release in March 2006. However, it was banned in that country after Meiwes complained that his "personality rights" had been violated. The American film, which is fictionalized, stars Keri Russell and, in the role inspired by Meiwes, Thomas Kretschmann. The film won multiple awards at the 2006 Festival de Cine de Sitges, including Best Director, Best Actor for the two male leads, and Best Cinematography.

Other films based on the case include Rosa von Praunheim's 'Dein Herz in Meinem Hirn' (Your Heart in My Brain); Marian Dora's Cannibal; and Uli Lommel's Cannibal. The 2005 Australian horror/thriller film Feed (film) contains a short scene depicting Meiwes and his victim sitting in a blood-filled bathtub together.

In 2005, the French author and actor Olivier Lejeune penned and acted a farce untitled Devorez-moi (Devour me), loosely based on the case.

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Wyatt Earp had this to say about Holliday: "Doc was a dentist whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a gun that I ever knew."

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On August 2, 1876, while playing poker at Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood, in the Black Hills, Dakota Territory, Hickok could not find an empty seat in the corner, where he always sat in order to protect himself against sneak attacks from behind, and instead sat with his back to one door and facing another. His paranoia was prescient: he was shot in the back of the head with a .45-caliber revolver by Jack McCall. Legend has it that Hickok, playing poker when he was shot, was holding a pair of aces and a pair of eights. The fifth card was either unknown, or some say that it had not yet been dealt. This famous hand of cards is known as the "Dead Man's Hand".

The motive for the killing is still debated. McCall may have been paid for the deed, or it may have been the result of a recent dispute between the two. Most likely McCall became enraged over what he perceived as a condescending offer from Hickok to let him have enough money for breakfast after he had lost all his money playing poker the previous day. McCall claimed at the resulting two-hour trial, by a miners jury, an ad hoc local group of assembled miners and businessmen, that he was avenging Hickok's earlier slaying of his brother which was later found untrue. McCall was acquitted of the murder, resulting in the Black Hills Pioneer editorializing:
<DL> <DD>"Should it ever be our misfortune to kill a man ... we would simply ask that our trial may take place in some of the mining camps of these hills" </DD></DL>
McCall was subsequently rearrested after bragging about his deed, and a new trial was held. The authorities did not consider this to be double jeopardy because at the time Deadwood was not recognized by the U.S. as a legitimately incorporated town because it was in Indian Country and the jury was irregular. The new trial was held in Yankton, capital of the territory. Hickok's brother, Lorenzo Butler Hickok, traveled from Illinois to attend the retrial. This time McCall was found guilty and hanged. After his execution it was determined that McCall had never had a brother.

Charlie Utter, Hickok's friend and companion, claimed Hickok's body and placed a notice in the local newspaper, the Black Hills Pioneer, which read:
<DL> <DD>"Died in Deadwood, Black Hills, August 2, 1876, from the effects of a pistol shot, J. B. Hickok (Wild Bill) formerly of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Funeral services will be held at Charlie Utter's Camp, on Thursday afternoon, August 3, 1876, at 3 o'clock P. M. All are respectfully invited to attend." </DD></DL>
Almost the entire town attended the funeral, and Utter had Hickok buried with a wooden grave marker reading:
<DL> <DD>"Wild Bill, J. B. Hickok killed by the assassin Jack McCall in Deadwood, Black Hills, August 2d, 1876. Pard, we will meet again in the happy hunting ground to part no more. Good bye, Colorado Charlie, C. H. Utter." </DD></DL>
In 1879, at the urging of Calamity Jane, Utter had Hickok reinterred in a ten-foot (3 m) square plot at the Mount Moriah Cemetery, surrounded by a cast-iron fence with a U.S. flag flying nearby. A monument has since been built there. In accordance with her dying wish, Calamity Jane was buried next to him.

Shortly before Hickok's death, he wrote a letter to his new wife, Agnes Lake Thatcher, which reads in part: "Agnes Darling, if such should be we never meet again, while firing my last shot, I will gently breathe the name of my wife�-Agnes-�and with wishes even for my enemies I will make the plunge and try to swim to the other shore" and "My dearly beloved if I am to die today and never see the sweet face of you I want you to know that I am no great man and am lucky to have such a woman as you

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Fart is an English word which refers to flatulence. The word "fart" is generally considered unsuitable in a formal environment by modern English speakers, and it may be considered vulgar or offensive in some environments. Fart can be used as a noun or a verb.
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• <span>1</span> <span>Usage history</span>
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  • <span>1.2</span> <span>Modern usage</span>
• <span>2</span> <span>References</span>

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<h3><span>[edit]</span> <span>Early usage</span></h3>
A well known usage of the fart in Middle English occurs in Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" (one of the Canterbury Tales). In the tale (which is told by a bawdy miller as a group of pilgrims travel to Canterbury), Absolon has already been tricked into kissing Alison's bottom when he is expecting to kiss her face. Her boyfriend Nicholas hangs his buttocks out of a window, hoping to trick Absolon into kissing his arse in turn and farts in the face of his rival Absolon.<sup id="_ref-0">[1]</sup> Absolon is humiliated by this gesture but has come equipped for revenge and sears Nicholas's rear with a red-hot poker.The Oxford English Dictionary gives Chaucer's usage (1386) as its earliest citation for the noun form of the word, though it provides an earlier (1250) citation for the verb form.<sup id="_ref-1">[2]</sup>

The fart is frequently available (often through puns on the word "wind") as a comparison for undesirable speech or writing, as in these lines from an epistle by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester:
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Perhaps ill Verses, ought to be confined,
In mere good Breeding, like unsavory wind.
Were Reading forced, I should be apt to think
Men might no more write scurvily than stink.
But 'tis your choice, whether you'll read or no;
If likewise of your smelling it were so,
I'd Fart, just as I write, for my own ease,
Nor should you be concerned unless you please.<sup id="_ref-2">[3]</sup>
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<h3><span>[edit]</span> <span>Modern usage</span></h3>
By the early twentieth century, the word fart had come to be considered rather vulgar in most English-speaking cultures. For a long time, the word was forbidden from the public airwaves in the United States.^{<span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources since February 2007">[citation needed]</span>} While not one of George Carlin's original seven dirty words, he noted in a later routine that the word fart (along with turd and twat), ought to be added to "the list" of words that were not acceptable (for broadcast) in any context (as opposed to words such as ass, cock or pussy which have non-offensive meanings).<sup id="_ref-3">[4]</sup>

With the rise of cable television and changing social mores in general, the word fart is (in 2007) frequently heard in the broadcast media. It is also now found in such places as children's literature, such as the Walter the Farting Dog series of children's books and The Gas We Pass by Shinta Cho. While still considered impolite in some social contexts, much of the stigma surrounding the word has disappeared.

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1. <li id="_note-0">^ "This nicholas anon leet fle a fart, / As greet as it had been a thonder-dent" (The Miller's Tale 3806-3807; available online at etext.lib.virginia.edu).<li id="_note-1">^ Oxford English Dictionary online (http://dictionary.oed.com): entries for fart, n. and fart, v.<li id="_note-2">^ Rochester, "An Epistolary Essay from M. G. to O. B. upon Their Mutual Poems," The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. David M. Vieth (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968.<li id="_note-3">^ http://www.georgecarlin.com/dirty/dirty3.html

• Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology. J Persels, R Ganim - 2004 (Chap. 1: The Honorable Art of Farting in Continental Renaissance) [1]

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<table bgcolor="#e5e5d5" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td>7.16.18:19 by AlabiTilt</td><td>[Reply]</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"></td><td colspan="2" valign="top">get big please GET BIG!</td></tr></tbody></table> <table bgcolor="#eeeedd" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><input name="SelectedMessages" value="d4dbd34f-19c8-4cbe-bf0c-4b9e2a3f82e4" type="checkbox"></td><td>7.16.18:09 by AlabiTilt</td><td>[Reply]</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"></td><td colspan="2" valign="top">GET THE FUCK OUT, Mich St. pwns ur punk ass, get it straight boy</td></tr></tbody></table> <table bgcolor="#e5e5d5" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><input name="SelectedMessages" value="0c858edc-ed91-4069-8e84-571a22fcd4a2" type="checkbox"></td><td>7.16.02:34 by jeffboski</td><td>[Reply]</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"></td><td colspan="2" valign="top">wow i actually LOLed at ur post "force me into an abusive relationship"</td></tr></tbody></table> <table bgcolor="#eeeedd" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><input name="SelectedMessages" value="c5d8af6c-18b5-4048-970f-1f912fe8cc3c" type="checkbox"></td><td>7.15.05:47 by 19FMzadester</td><td>[Reply]</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"></td><td colspan="2" valign="top">you suck. well over the internet you come off as a big douche. odds are you are a big douche.....ratshit bat shit dirty old twat sixtynine assholes tied in a knot horrayy!! lizard shit1! fuck!!!!</td></tr></tbody></table> <table bgcolor="#e5e5d5" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><input name="SelectedMessages" value="2f9e31dc-c765-47f2-8cc0-6779c7104f27" type="checkbox"></td><td>7.14.18:50 by ImASick0</td><td>[Reply]</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"></td><td colspan="2" valign="top">your dad can tell you if I am gay</td></tr></tbody></table>

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