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Zeevonk
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Zeevonk

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De zeevonk is een heterotrofe dinoflagellaat van meestal 0,5 mm groot, maar kan door het vergroten van de vacuole opzwellen tot 2 mm en is dan rond tot boonvormig. In het voorjaar en aan het begin van de zomer kan de zeevonk bij beweging licht uitstralen door bioluminescentie.

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3 augustus
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3 augustus is de 215de dag van het jaar in de gregoriaanse kalender. Hierna volgen nog 150 dagen tot het einde van het j…

Peter Buwalda
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Peter Buwalda
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Peter Buwalda is een Nederlandse schrijver en columnist. Buwalda was eerder journalist en redacteur bij diverse uitgever…

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On This Day

10 gebeurtenissen
2009
Taurus_09
The last vessels involved in Taurus 09, a Royal Navy training deployment covering 20,400 miles (32,800 km), returned to HMNB Devonport, England.
2005
Maaouya_Ould_Sid'Ahmed_Taya
Mauritanian president Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya was overthrown in a military coup while he attended the funeral of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
1997
Sky_Tower_(Auckland)
The Sky Tower, then the tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere at 328 m (1,076 ft), opened in Auckland, New Zealand.
1977
Tandy_Corporation
Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
1975
Boeing_707
A privately chartered Boeing 707 (aircraft involved pictured) struck a mountain peak and crashed near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
1971
Fighting_Dinosaurs
Fighting Dinosaurs, a fossil specimen featuring a Velociraptor and a Protoceratops in combat, was unearthed in the Djadochta Formation of Mongolia.
1940
World_War_II
World War II: Italian forces began a conquest of British Somaliland, capturing the region in 16 days.
1936
African_Americans
African-American athlete Jesse Owens won the first of his four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics, dashing Nazi leaders' hopes of Aryan domination at the games.
1929
Jiddu_Krishnamurti
Jiddu Krishnamurti (pictured), believed by some Theosophists to be a likely candidate for the messianic "World Teacher", dissolved the Order of the Star, the organisation established to support him.
1913
Wheatland,_California
An agricultural workers' strike in Wheatland degenerated into a riot, becoming one of the first major farm-labor confrontations in California.

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