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Conch (other)
A conch is a kind of large sea snail, especially those in the family Strombidae. Conch may also refer to: Places * Conch Key in Florida * Conch Republic, Key West, Florida micronation People * Conch (people) of Bahamas and Florida Architecture * Conch (architecture), semicircular apse or its domed roof * Conch house, a style of architecture found in Key West and Miami, Florida Art, entertainment, and media * "Conch", Patti Smith poem in ''kodak'' (book) * ''The Conch'', an album by the band moe Musical instruments * Conch (instrument), a musical instrument made from a seashell * Horagai, a shell used as a musical instrument in Japan Other uses * Conch (SSH), secure-shell software written in python * Anhui Conch Cement Company, Chinese business * Conch awards for audio production * Conch piercing A conch piercing is a perforation of the part of the external human ear called the "concha", for the purpose of inserting and wearing jewelry. Conch piercings have become popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conch
Conch () is a common name of a number of different medium-to-large-sized sea snails. Conch shells typically have a high spire and a noticeable siphonal canal (in other words, the shell comes to a noticeable point at both ends). In North America, a conch is often identified as a queen conch, indigenous to the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. Queen conches are valued for seafood and are also used as fish bait. The group of conches that are sometimes referred to as "true conches" are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Strombidae, specifically in the genus '' Strombus'' and other closely related genera. For example, '' Lobatus gigas'', the queen conch, and '' Laevistrombus canarium'', the dog conch, are true conches. Many other species are also often called "conch", but are not at all closely related to the family Strombidae, including '' Melongena'' species (family Melongenidae) and the horse conch '' Triplofusus papillosus'' (family Fasciolariidae). Speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conch Key
Conch () is a common name of a number of different medium-to-large-sized sea snails. Conch shells typically have a high spire and a noticeable siphonal canal (in other words, the shell comes to a noticeable point at both ends). In North America, a conch is often identified as a queen conch, indigenous to the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. Queen conches are valued for seafood and are also used as fish bait. The group of conches that are sometimes referred to as "true conches" are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Strombidae, specifically in the genus ''Strombus'' and other closely related genera. For example, ''Lobatus gigas'', the queen conch, and ''Laevistrombus canarium'', the dog conch, are true conches. Many other species are also often called "conch", but are not at all closely related to the family Strombidae, including ''Melongena'' species (family Melongenidae) and the horse conch ''Triplofusus papillosus'' (family Fasciolariidae). Species com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conch Republic
The Conch Republic () is a micronation declared as a tongue-in-cheek secession of the city of Key West, Florida, from the United States on April 23, 1982. It has been maintained as a tourism booster for the city. Since then, the term "Conch Republic" has been expanded to refer to "all of the Florida Keys, or, that geographic apportionment of land that falls within the legally defined boundaries of Monroe County, Florida, northward to 'Skeeter's Last Chance Saloon' in Florida City, Dade County, Florida, with Key West as the micronation's capital and all territories north of Key West being referred to as 'The Northern Territories'. While the protests that sparked the creation of the Conch Republic (and others since then) have been described by some as "tongue-in-cheek", they were motivated by frustrations over genuine concerns. The original protest event was motivated by a U.S. Border Patrol roadblock and checkpoint that greatly inconvenienced residents and tourists. The Conch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conch (people)
Conch () was originally a slang term for Bahamians of European descent. Theories of the name After the American Revolution, many loyalists migrated to the Bahamas. Some of the loyalists looked down on the original white Bahamians and called them Conchs, possibly because shellfish was a prominent part of their diet.Foster, Charles C. 1991. ''Conchtown USA'', with Folk songs & tales collected by Veonica Huss. Boca Raton, Florida: Florida Atlantic University Press. Some other theories that have been proposed for the origin of the term are: *The Bahamians told the British authorities that they would "eat conch" before paying taxes levied by the Crown. *The adventurers from St. Augustine, Florida (then part of British East Florida) who recaptured Nassau from the Spanish in 1782 hoisted a flag with a shell rampant on a field of canvas. *The first regiment of militia in Nassau adopted a regimental flag with a gold conch shell on a blue field. Use in Florida Florida Keys By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conch (architecture)
In architecture, a semi-dome (or half-dome) is a half dome that covers a semi-circular area in a building. Architecture Semi-domes are a common feature of apses in Ancient Roman and traditional church architecture, and in mosques and iwans in Islamic architecture. A semi-dome, or the whole apse, may also be called a conch after the scallop shell often carved as decoration of the semi-dome (all shells were conches in Ancient Greek), though this is usually used for subsidiary semi-domes, rather than the one over the main apse. Small semi-domes have been often decorated in a shell shape from ancient times, as in Piero della Francesca's ''Throned Madonna with saints and Federigo da Montefeltro'', and the example in the gallery below. Islamic examples may use muqarnas decorative corbelling, while in Late Antique, Byzantine and medieval church architecture the semi-dome is the classic location for a focal mosaic, or later fresco. Found in many Ancient Greek exedras, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conch House
A conch house is a style of architecture that developed in Key West, Florida in the 19th century and used into the early 20th century. The style was also used in the other keys and in the Miami area. The introduction of the conch house style is attributed to immigrants from the Bahamas. Characteristics The conch house, like other Florida vernacular architecture styles, is built of wood, and set on posts or piers, which allows air to circulate under the floor. Conch houses are rectangular, of one or two floors, and usually have a porch across the full width of the front of the house (both floors if the house has two floors). Other characteristics are horizontal weatherboarding or clapboarding, low gabled or hip roofs, and double-hung sash windows. Roofs may be metal or shingled. Conch house designs were often influenced by Classical Revival or Neoclassical architecture. Other than carved brackets and/or rafter ends on porches, conch houses generally lack ornamentation. History T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kodak (book)
''kodak'' is a poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings ... collection by Patti Smith, published in 1972. Contents # Untitled # "k.o.d.a.k." # "Star Fever" # Untitled (" Renee Falconetti") # Untitled (" Georgia O'Keeffe") # " Radando Beach" # "Conch" # Untitled ("Prayer") # "Balance" Notes External links * American poetry collections Poetry by Patti Smith 1972 poetry books Books by Patti Smith {{Poetry-collection-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Conch
''The Conch'' is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Moe. It was released on January 23, 2007, by Fatboy Records. ''The Conch'' was Moe's first studio release in four years. History Since 2004, the band had been working on the follow-up to their 2003 release ''Wormwood''. The band had debuted well over a dozen new songs since Wormwood, but had indicated in articles and interviews that there were some songs that they had recorded that they hadn't even performed live yet. As with the previous album, the band decided to try to record and then mix in live samples of their new songs from shows on June 10, 2005 and June 11, 2005 in order to create a meld between studio and live settings. The band performed these two special shows in Portland, Maine and recorded the audio for possible inclusion on the new album. For this reason, the band, usually taper-friendly, did not allow audio taping by the fans for these two shows. * Rob Derhak on the new album (2/24/06): : In 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conch (instrument)
Conch, or conque, also known as a "seashell horn" or "shell trumpet", is a wind instrument that is made from a conch, the shell of several different kinds of sea snails. Their natural conical bore is used to produce a musical tone. Conch shell trumpets have been played in many Pacific Island countries, as well as South America and Southern Asia. The shells of large marine gastropods are blown into as if it were a trumpet, as in blowing horn. A completely unmodified conch may be used, or a mouth hole may be created. Wooden, bamboo, or metal mouthpieces may be inserted into the end of the shell.Herbert, Trevor and Wallace, John; eds. (1997). ''The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments'', p.11-3. Cambridge University. . Embouchure is used to produce notes from the harmonic series. A tone hole may be added to change the fundamental frequency but globally this is extremely rare.Braun, Joachim (2002). ''Music in Ancient Israel/Palestine: Archaeological, Written, and Comparati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horagai
''Horagai'' () (or ''jinkai'' ) are large conch shells, usually from ''Charonia tritonis'', that have been used as trumpets in Japan for many centuries. The instrument, which has served a number of purposes throughout Japanese history, has been given a number of Japanese names depending on its function. Special schools still teach students to play the traditional music associated with the conch. Instrument Unlike most shell trumpets from other parts of the world which produce only one pitch, the Japanese ''hora'' or ''horagai'' can produce three or five different notes. The different pitches are achieved using a bronze or wooden mouthpiece attached to the apex of the shell's spire. At freezing temperatures (often encountered in the mountainous regions of Japan) the lips may freeze to the metal surface, so wooden or bamboo mouthpieces are used. Historical usage Religion The conch is used by Buddhist monks for religious purposes. Its use goes back at least 1,000 years, and it is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conch (SSH)
Twisted is an event-driven network programming framework written in Python and licensed under the MIT License. Twisted projects variously support TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, IP multicast, Unix domain sockets, many protocols (including HTTP, XMPP, NNTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC, FTP, and others), and much more. Twisted is based on the event-driven programming paradigm, which means that users of Twisted write short callbacks which are called by the framework. Core ideas Separation of protocols and transports Twisted is designed for complete separation between logical protocols (usually relying on stream-based connection semantics, such as HTTP or POP3) and physical transport layers supporting such stream-based semantics (such as files, sockets or SSL libraries). Connection between a logical protocol and a transport layer happens at the last possible moment — just before information is passed into the logical protocol instance. The logical protocol is informed of the transport layer instan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anhui Conch Cement Company
Anhui Conch Cement Co., Ltd. known also as Anhui Conch or Conch Cement, is the largest cement manufacturer or seller in the mainland China, headquartered in Anhui Province. Its business scope covers the manufacture and sales of cement and clinker. Its H-share was listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on October 21, 1997, while its A-share was listed in the Shanghai Stock Exchange on February 7, 2002. Shareholders The largest shareholder of Conch Cement was Anhui Conch Holdings (), which was owned by via wholly owned subsidiary Anhui Provincial Investment Group Holdings Co., Ltd. () and subsidiary |
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