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anchovy (sh) and Kiel (sh)


anchovy (sh)




Any of more than 100 species of schooling saltwater fishes (family Engraulidae) related to the herring.

Anchovies are distinguished by a large mouth, almost always extending behind the eye, and by a pointed snout. Most species live in shallow tropical or warm temperate seas, where they often enter brackish water around river mouths. Adults are 4-10 in. (10-25 cm) long. Temperate species such as the northern and European anchovies are important Food fishes; tropical species such as the tropical anchovy, or anchoveta, are important bait fishes. See also schooling behaviour.


Anchovies (Engraulis mordax)

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Kiel (sh)




City (pop., 2002 est.: 232,242), capital of Schleswig-Holstein state, northern Germany.

A port at the eastern end of the Kiel Canal, it was founded in 1242. It entered the Hanseatic League in 1284; in 1773 Kiel became part of Denmark. Schleswig-Holstein passed to Prussia in 1866, and Kiel became its capital in 1917. An important naval base, it was the target of Allied bombing during World War II. It is the site of St. Nicholas Church (งใ 1240), a ducal palace (งใ 1280), and the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel (founded 1665).