The Dow Jones Industrial Average is hovering near 14,000, and global bond markets are as calm as the sargasso Sea. |
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The legend maintains that the Sargasso Sea derelicts are found shipshape but otherwise bereft of a living soul. |
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In 1881, the schooner Ellen Austin, bound for London, discovered a derelict adrift in the Sargasso. |
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Sargasso Sea, area of the North Atlantic Ocean, elliptical in shape and relatively still, that is strewn with free-floating seaweed of the genus Sargassum. |
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In stark contrast to Copi's consciously sub-literary chaos, Jean Rhys's exquisite novel Wide Sargasso Sea is a profound and thought-provoking artwork. |
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The story goes that in the so-called Bermuda Triangle, erupting clouds of methane gas in the Sargasso Sea make ships disappear without a trace. |
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Australia is actually antipodal to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, straddling the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the Tropic of Cancer between the Canary Isles and the Sargasso Sea. |
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In The Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys drew a haunting portrait of the young Mrs Rochester before she went mad and ended her days in the attic in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. |
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They converge in the Sargasso Sea from throughout Europe in order to meet each other and produce offspring, irrespective of national borders. |
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She may drift into the Sargasso Sea of daytime television, where she can chat up b-list celebrities. |
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It is written that on October 11, 1492, while becalmed in the Sargasso Sea, one of the crewmen picked a rose branch from the water. |
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The primary downwelling regions are in the subtropical ocean waters e.g., the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic. |
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This eel inhabits continental waters of the eastern North Atlantic Ocean but also frequents the Sargasso Sea and Iceland. |
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Like the rest of the world's seas, the Sargasso Sea has a population of the subsurface algae called coccoliths as well as planktonic foraminifera. |
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The Atlantic Ocean's Sargasso Sea was named after the algae, as it hosts a large amount of sargassum. |
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In the early 1900s, Danish researcher Johannes Schmidt identified the Sargasso Sea as the most likely spawning grounds for European eels. |
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Later in life, the matured eel tries to return to the Sargasso Sea to spawn and lay eggs. |
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Several nations and nongovernmental organizations have joined together to protect the Sargasso Sea. |
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The silvering metamorphosis results in morphological and physiological modifications that prepare the animal to migrate back to the Sargasso Sea. |
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The Sargasso Sea is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre. |
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The Sargasso Sea is home to seaweed of the genus Sargassum, which floats en masse on the surface there. |
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The Sargasso Sea also plays a major role in the migration of both the European eel and the American eel. |
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They remain there for some 10 to 15 years, maturing, before returning to the Sargasso to spawn. |
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Bermuda has also joined several other nations in efforts to protect the Sargasso Sea. |
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The other Sargasso is the flotsam and jetsam of the past. |
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One of the more famous misunderstood practitioners of Vodou in literature is Christophine in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. |
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This has nothing to do with the Sargasso Sea in which, despite all of the researches, no eel, elver, glass eel and not even a single egg was found. |
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Sturgeon, smelt, baby eels fresh from the Sargasso Sea, striped bass, sea lampreys, alewives and blueback herring — all of them ran up the rivers about now, following a vernal instinct that points directly upstream. |
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The origin of the Sargasso fauna and flora remained enigmatic for centuries. |
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The North Atlantic Gyre forms the Sargasso Sea, noted for its still waters and dense seaweed accumulations. |
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The surface layers of the Sargasso Sea were used to estimate the lead isotopic concentrations. |
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The Sargasso Sea is often portrayed in literature and the media as an area of mystery. |
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Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea describes the Sargasso Sea and gives an account of its formation. |
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The Doc Savage novel The Sargasso Ogre, published in 1933, takes place in the Sargasso where descendants of Elizabethan pirates still live. |
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Fred Andrew's mystery novel, Plato's Pond, features the fictitious land of Gaia, which is a continent in the middle of the Sargasso Sea. |
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Spawning of Conger oceanicus and Conger triporiceps in the Sargasso Sea and subsequent distribution of leptocephali. |
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Ocean currents such as the Gulf Stream transport eel larvae from the Sargasso Sea to foraging areas in North America, Europe, and Northern Africa. |
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Perhaps the most famous novel featuring its name is Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, a rewriting of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre from Bertha Mason's point of view. |
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In the early 2000s, the Sargasso Sea was sampled as part of the Global Ocean Sampling survey, to evaluate its diversity of microbial life through metagenomics. |
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After reaching these freshwater bodies they feed and mature for approximately 10 to 25 years before migrating back to the Sargasso Sea in order to complete their life cycle. |
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The eel lives in fresh water and estuaries and only leaves these habitats to enter the Atlantic Ocean to start its spawning migration to the Sargasso Sea. |
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Fossils of similar fishes have been found in fossil bays of the former Tethys Ocean, in what is now the Carpathian region, that were similar to the Sargasso Sea. |
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A fair amount of it washes out through the Straits of Florida in the Gulf Stream and ends up in the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast of the United States. |
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