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  2. Sea Hag - Wikipedia

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    Sea Hag in the Thimble Theatre strip from December 26, 1929, her first appearance.. The Sea Hag is one of the central enemies of Popeye the Sailor. She is the last witch on earth, and a pirate who sails the Seven Seas in her ship "The Black Barnacle".

  3. Amphibalanus improvisus - Wikipedia

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    Bay barnacles in the Sea of Azov, Ukraine. Amphibalanus improvisus has a cosmopolitan distribution and is found in temperate and tropical parts of the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, the Baltic Sea the North Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. It is not known where the species natural range lies but it may have originated in North ...

  4. List of fictional pirates - Wikipedia

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    This game contains a non-playable faction called the Black Sun Pirates, who are a large gang of mercenaries. [117] In addition, during the Clone Wars, the criminal elements which comprised the Black Sun syndicate flourished, and it was led by a "cabal of Falleen nobles" on Mustafar, [118] [119] appearing in the series Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

  5. Alice the Goon - Wikipedia

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    Alice first appears when the Sea Hag returns to Sweethaven searching for a former slave named Cringly, the only one who knows the location of her lair, Plunder Island. After capturing Wimpy and locking him in the deck of her ship, the Black Barnacle, the Sea Hag orders the goon, "Keep an eye on him, Alice!" The characters and readers now ...

  6. Barnacle - Wikipedia

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    Barnacle adults are sessile; most are suspension feeders with hard calcareous shells, but the Rhizocephala are specialized parasites of other crustaceans, with reduced bodies. Barnacles have existed since at least the mid-Carboniferous, some 325 million years ago. In folklore, barnacle geese were once held to emerge fully formed from goose ...

  7. Brant (goose) - Wikipedia

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    The genus name Branta is a Latinised form of Old Norse brandgás, "burnt (black) goose". The specific epithet bernicla is Medieval Latin for barnacle. [8] The brant and the similar barnacle goose were previously considered to be the same species and believed to be the same creature as the barnacle. [8] That myth can be dated back to at least ...

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    TIL The U.S. Navy estimates that heavy barnacle growth on ships increases weight and drag by as much as 60 percent, resulting in as much as a 40 percent increase in fuel consumption. Image credits ...

  9. Barnacle goose - Wikipedia

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    The barnacle goose was first classified taxonomically by Johann Matthäus Bechstein in 1803. Branta is a Latinised form of Old Norse Brandgás, "burnt (black) goose" and the specific epithet is from the Ancient Greek leukos "white", and opsis "faced".