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The older hypothesis is that the Dead Sea lies in a true rift zone, an extension of the Red Sea Rift, or even of the Great Rift Valley of eastern Africa. A more recent hypothesis is that the Dead Sea basin is a consequence of a "step-over" discontinuity along the Dead Sea Transform, creating an extension of the crust with consequent subsidence.
On April 25, 1977, the Japanese trawler Zuiyō Maru, fishing east of Christchurch, New Zealand, caught a strange, unknown creature in the trawl.The crew was convinced it was an unidentified animal, [4] but despite the potential biological significance of the curious discovery, the captain, Akira Tanaka, decided to dump the carcass into the ocean again so not to risk spoiling the fish caught.
Dandan – Sea creature; Danava – Water demon; Daphnaie – Laurel tree nymph; Datsue-ba – Old woman who steals clothes from the souls of the dead; Dead Sea Apes – Human tribe turned into apes for ignoring Moses' message; Ded Moroz – A winter spirit who delivers gifts to children on New Year's Eve
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Totes Meer (German for "Dead Sea") is a 1941 oil-on-canvas painting by Paul Nash. It depicts a moonlit landscape populated by a graveyard of crashed aircraft of the German Luftwaffe. The broken shards of metal from the wings and fuselages resemble a seascape of jagged ice, possibly inspired by Caspar David Friedrich's The Sea of Ice.
The Dead Sea Apes is a Quran story of dwellers by the Dead Sea who were transformed into apes for breaking the Sabbath. [1] It is also a metaphor used, for instance by Thomas Carlyle , describing people in modern times to whom the universe, with all its serious voices, seems to have become a weariness and a humbug.