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The last title on record went to Clark University's Joe Deliberto, who sucked down 89 goldfish. [5] Critics of goldfish swallowing soon emerged, such as a poem condemning the practice in the Boston Herald by Eva Williams Raymond [6] and the Society for the Prevention of Goldfish Eating, established in the spring of 1939. [7]
The Vinckens, with their 12-year-old son Fritz, sought refuge there to be isolated from the war. Her husband, a member of the defense squad in Monschau, near the cottage, came home to visit them ...
Egg-fish goldfish Shukin; The Lionchu or lionhead-ranchu is a goldfish that has resulted from crossbreeding lionheads and ranchus. [39] [40] The egg-fish goldfish is a goldfish that lacks a dorsal fin and has a pronounced egg-shaped body. [41] [42] The Shukin is a Ranchu-like goldfish developed from Ranchus and Orandas at the end of the 19th ...
Alfred Zech, also known as Alfred Czech [1] [2] (12 October 1932 – 13 June 2011), [3] [4] was a German child soldier who, as one of about 3 million people, received the Iron Cross, 2nd Class at the age of 12 years.
A recent study in the Journal of Great Lakes Research shed light on the growing problem of goldfish proliferating outside of the proverbial fish bowl. A real fish tail. Giant goldfish swimming in ...
In 1795 allowances for bread and necessities were consolidated to 2 + 1 ⁄ 4 d per day and was later increased in the year by 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 d per day to reflect increased prices of bread and meat. From 1815 to 1854 the daily ration for a British soldier in the United Kingdom was 1 pound of bread (453 g) and 3 ⁄ 4 of a pound of meat (340 g).
The term 'veiltail' is commonly and erroneously applied to any goldfish displaying a long caudal, but true veiltails must have all the characteristics described above. Veiltails are available in many colors and may have either metallic or nacreous scales. They can grow from 8 to 12 inches (20 to 30 cm).
In many cases, the horses were slaughtered by the German soldiers for eating purposes. [92] When the German army was ordered to abandon the Crimean Peninsula on May 8, 1944, Hitler ordered the slaughter of the 30,000 horses of the German army before the troops were abandoned so that they would not fall as booty into the hands of the Russians.