Blistering Barnacles: An A-Z of The Rants, Rambles and Rages of Captain Haddock: Celebrating 80 years of Hergé’s beloved comic character from Tintin: ... Illustrated Mystery Adventure Series

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Darwin, C. R. (1852). The Lepadidæ. A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. Vol.1. London: Ray Society.

Today’s sailors still struggle with the same problem. More formally called biofouling, the unwanted build-up of sea life on the hulls of everything from pleasure boats to aircraft carriers causes drag through the water. This slows speeds and so necessitates the burning of more fuel, producing both higher costs and more carbon emissions. (The skins of sea creatures from whales to sea snakes can also become encrusted with barnacles in a similar way.) Once metamorphosis is over and they have reached their adult form, barnacles continue to grow by adding new material to their heavily calcified plates. These plates are not moulted; however, like all ecdysozoans, the barnacle itself will still moult its cuticle. [18] Sexual reproduction [ edit ] E. L. Charnov (1987). Sexuality and hermaphroditism in barnacles: A natural selection approach. pp.89–104. In A. J. Southward (ed.), 1987. Competitors may include other barnacles, and disputed evidence indicates balanoid barnacles competitively displaced chthalamoid barnacles. Balanoids gained their advantage over the chthalamoids in the Oligocene, when they evolved tubular skeletons, which provide better anchorage to the substrate, and allow them to grow faster, undercutting, crushing, and smothering chthalamoids. [29]Then there’s Tintin himself. The boy reporter, says Farr, is “an unusually blank figure. Just those two dots for eyes, that little nose.” His celebrated quiff was the result of an early car chase: Hergé enjoyed drawing it so much he made it permanent. “He appeals to everyone, boys and girls, all ages, all nationalities. He’s a blank sheet every reader can identify with. It’s a very clever device.” Ewen Callaway (2009-04-07). "Penis length isn't everything … for barnacle males". New Scientist . Retrieved 2020-10-03. On way to dinner on a trip to Bangalore, decided to catch up with a friend at Blistering Barnacles for a drink. Getting a seat was difficult and the service was very mediocre. I found the music too loud to be able to make any... conversation. Another example of the use of alliteration is in the phrase “Thundering typhoons” which replaced the original phrase “Tonnerre de Brest”. Many theories about the French phrase abound on the internet. It is said that it could refer to a common French cliché that Brest experiences more stormy weather than the average town or to the thunderous roar of cannon fired from the Brest Arsenal. By searching Google.fr you will find a Wikipedia article in French all about the phrase. It cites three possible origins: one to a huge clap of thunder in Brest in April 1718; one to the daily firing of the cannon at the Brest Arsenal at 6.00 am and 7.00 p.m.; and a third to the use of the cannon to warn the people of Brest about escaping prisoners. Whatever the definition of the phrase, it is as nebulous as “thundering typhoons”. A term frequency search across the Gale Primary Sources, a database of 17 th, 18 th and 19 th century news sources available via LibrarySearch reveals that the exclamation “Thundering typhoons!” was probably an invention of the translators, presumably for its dramatic sonorous effect. One could argue that the phrase is in keeping with the colonial geopolitics which pervade the stories, and reveals the depth of understanding of the translators for the author and the world that he is conveying in his fiction. You can read more about “Identity and geopolitics in Hergé’s Adventures of Tintin” in an article by Oliver Dunnett available via Taylor and Francis journals on LibrarySearch. [ii] Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

Kado, Ryusuke. "Let's learn about the body structure of a barnacle" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on January 25, 2012. a b Donald Thomas Anderson (1994). "Larval development and metamorphosis". Barnacles: Structure, Function, Development and Evolution. Springer. pp.197–246. ISBN 978-0-412-44420-3. Joe works as an Archivist in the Archives department of the Cultural Assets Directorate. He helps people access material in the collections, and also licenses fascinating images from the HES archives for use in publications, exhibitions, and more. Inside the carapace, the animal lies on its stomach, projecting its limbs downwards. Segmentation is usually indistinct, and the body is more or less evenly divided between the head and thorax, with little, if any, abdomen. Adult barnacles have few appendages on their heads, with only a single, vestigial pair of antennae, attached to the cement gland. The eight pairs of thoracic limbs are referred to as " cirri" which are feathery and very long. The cirri extend to filter food, such as plankton, from the water and move it towards the mouth. [5] Screech, Matthew (2005). Masters of the Ninth Art: Bandes Dessinées and Franco-Belgian Identity. Liverpool: Liverpool University press. ISBN 978-0-85323-938-3.Ships have been transporting ballast water for hundreds of years and there are a few examples where it has had severe adverse effects” says Okko Outinen, a marine scientist at the Finnish Environmental Institute, with a special interest in ballast water. Charles Darwin took up this challenge in 1846, and developed his initial interest into a major study published as a series of monographs in 1851 and 1854. [33] Darwin undertook this study, at the suggestion of his friend Joseph Dalton Hooker, to thoroughly understand at least one species before making the generalisations needed for his theory of evolution by natural selection. [34] [35] Upon the conclusion of his research, Darwin declared "I hate a barnacle as no man ever did before." [36] [35]