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The clam was initially named Ming by Sunday Times journalists, in reference to the Ming dynasty in China, during which it was born. [1] Later, the Icelandic researchers on the cruise which discovered the clam named it Hafrún, a woman's name which translates roughly as 'the mystery of the ocean'; taken from haf, 'ocean', and rún, 'mystery'. [4]
This slow life style results in exceptional longevity, e.g., with a reported age, for Ming the clam, of 507 years. It is the longest lived non-colonial metazoan species with an authenticated lifespan. [4] [7] [8] It is unknown how long it could have lived had it not been collected alive by a 2006 expedition.
The Ming treasure voyages were maritime expeditions undertaken by Ming China's treasure fleet between 1405 and 1433. The Yongle Emperor ordered the construction of the fleet in 1403. The grand project resulted in seven far-reaching ocean voyages to the coastal territories and islands of the South China Sea and Indian Ocean .
Ming, 1980 jazz album by David Murray; Ming (clam), an individual clam, claimed to be the oldest living animal ever discovered; Ming class submarine, a class of diesel-electric submarines built by China; Ming of Harlem, a tiger who lived in a New York apartment; Immingham, England, a Lincolnshire town often known as "Ming" or "Ming-Ming"
The Palourde clam by far is the most common native clam and it is both commercially harvested as well as locally collected, and Spisula solida, a relative of the Atlantic surf clam on the other side of the Atlantic, is seeing increased interest as a food source and aquaculture candidate; it is mainly found in the British Isles in Europe. [29]
Dr. Ming Wang grew up wanting to be a doctor — and that’s because he comes from a long line of medical professionals. “Five generations (of doctors) since the Qing Dynasty,” Wang tells ...
The earliest surviving notation was first printed in the late Ming dynasty tablature Ancient Tones Authenticated by Zhu Changfang. Zhang Dai's Dream Memories of Tao'an stated that Yin Zhixian, the author of "Huí Yán Mìzhǐ," learned this piece from Wang Benwu in Shaoxing towards the end of the Wanli era. Subsequently, around fifty Guqin ...
Auteur Tsai Ming-Liang, on the other hand, takes the audience on a time machine in short film “The Night,” sending them back to one night during the fall of 2019, when Hong Kong was in the ...