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192. Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity is an autobiography and self-help guide [1] written by American filmmaker David Lynch. It comprises 84 vignette-like chapters [2] in which Lynch comments on a wide range of topics "from metaphysics to the importance of screening your movie before a test audience." [3]
Miraculous catch of 153 fish fresco in the Spoleto Cathedral, Italy (second miracle) According to John 21:11. Simon Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore. It was full of 153 large fish, but even with so many the net was not torn. This has become known popularly as the "153 fish" miracle.
Reel Fishing: Angler's Dream, known in Japan as Fish Eyes Wii, is a fishing video game for the Wii platform. It was released on April 30, 2009 in Japan and in North America on August 25, 2009. [12] The game is part of the Reel Fishing series of games. Owners of Angler's Dream will be able to unlock extra content in the WiiWare game Reel Fishing ...
The term fishing broadly includes catching aquatic animals other than fish, such as crustaceans (shrimp / lobsters / crabs), shellfish, cephalopods (octopus / squid) and echinoderms (starfish / sea urchins). The term is not normally applied to harvesting fish raised in controlled cultivations (fish farming).
Günter Grass's 1977 novel, The Flounder, is loosely based on the fairy tale, as are Emanuele Luzzati's version, Punch and the Magic Fish, and Ursula LeGuin's novel The Lathe of Heaven. [citation needed] A short cartoon based on this story was part of the American animated television series, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The Flounder was ...
Yu (fish) Fishes are a symbol of wealth in Chinese culture. [3]: 124 The Chinese character for fish is yu (traditional Chinese: 魚; simplified Chinese: 鱼; pinyin: yú). It is pronounced with a different tone in modern Chinese, 裕 (yù) means "abundance". Alternatively, 餘, meaning "over, more than", is a true homophone, so the common ...
Fishing is an ancient practice that dates back at least to the Upper Paleolithic period which began about 40,000 years ago. [4][5] Isotopic analysis of the skeletal remains of Tianyuan man, a 40,000-year-old modern human from eastern Asia, has shown that he regularly consumed freshwater fish. [6][7] Archaeological features such as shell middens ...
Fishing techniques are methods for catching fish. The term may also be applied to methods for catching other aquatic animals such as molluscs (shellfish, squid, octopus) and edible marine invertebrates. Fishing techniques include hand-gathering, spearfishing, netting, angling and trapping.