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Spratly Islands The
Spratly Islands (Filipino:
Kapuluan ng Kalayaan;
simplified Chinese: 南沙群岛;
traditional Chinese: 南沙群島; pinyin: Nánshā Qúndǎo; Malay:...
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Sprat is the
common name
applied to a
group of
forage fish
belonging to the
genus Sprattus in the
family Clupeidae. The term also is
applied to a number...
- "Jack
Sprat" (or "Jack Spratt") is an
English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song
Index number of 19479. The most
common modern version of...
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William Spratly was the
Second Officer of the
British whaler,
Cyrus and
brother of its captain,
Richard Spratly, who is
notable for
naming Spratly Island...
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Spratly Island (Vietnamese: Đảo Trường Sa or Đảo Trường Sa Lớn, lit. 'the Big
Spratly (Trường Sa) Island';
simplified Chinese: 南威岛;
traditional Chinese:...
- The
European sprat (Sprattus sprattus), also
known as brisling,
brisling sardine, bristling, garvie, garvock,
Russian sardine, russlet,
skipper or whitebait...
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Thomas Sprat, FRS (1635 – 20 May 1713) was an
English churchman and writer,
Bishop of
Rochester from 1684.
Sprat was born at Beaminster, Dorset, and educated...
- The
Spratly Islands dispute is an
ongoing territorial dispute among Brunei, China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and
Vietnam concerning "ownership"...
- The
Australian sprat (Sprattus novaehollandiae) is a
sprat fish
whose habitat ranges in the
waters surrounding Australia including Tasmania. It is a pelagic...
- The gl****y
sprat (Hyperlophus translucidus) is a type of
sprat fish. The fish, when alive, is translucent, so it gets the
second word in its scientific...
