Clams, like most molluscs, also have open circulatory systems, which means that their organs are surrounded by watery blood that contains nutrients and oxygen.

Clams are eaten more in the coastal regions of India, especially in the Konkan, Kerala, Bengal, and Karnataka regions.

In the south western coast of India, also known as the Konkan region, Clams are used to cook curries and side dishes, like Tisaryachi Ekshipi, which is clams with one shell on.

Clams or shellfish are locally called chipchip and local fishermen sell those in rural markets.

Pacific Razor Clams are popular for digging on the beaches near Ninilchik, when the tides are low enough.

Studies have now shown that by the 1970s four-fifths of the ducks ’ diet was made up of Baltic Clams, which are very common in the Chesapeake Bay: the ducks have been able to adapt to the decline in SAV by changing their diet.

Clams in themselves are low in cholesterol and fat, but fried clams absorb cooking fat.

Some of the popular foods are Lontong Kupang ( Tiny Clams Soup with Rice Cakes ), Lontong Balap ( Bean Sprouts and Tofu with Rice Cakes ), Sate Klopo ( Coconut Beef Satay ), Semanggi Surabaya ( Marsilea Leaves with Spicy Sweet Potato Sauce ), ' Pecel Lele ( deep fried catfish served with rice and sambal ), Rawon ( Dark Beef Soup ).

There are also " touch tanks " in a facility called the Sea Pavilion where visitors are permitted to handle North Atlantic Lobster, Snow Crabs, Rock Crabs, Clams ( also known as Pea Clams ), Sea Urchins, Sea Cucumbers, and other species.

" He expanded the fine dining and fish and chips restaurants into a regional chain. Today, there are 24 Ivar's fast casual Seafood Bars, three Fish Bars, and three full-service restaurants: Ivar's Acres of Clams, Ivar's Salmon House and Ivar's Mukilteo Landing.

( Clams are also the preferred unit of currency in B. C.

Finfish, Green crabs, Clams and Prawns are the most commercially exploited fishes of the lagoon.

Clams are commercially harvested off the mouth of the creek, and various marine fish can be caught from a fishing pier at the mouth of the creek.

Clams are shelled marine or freshwater mollusks.

Shrimp, Clams and Oysters are an important element of the food chain in Mosquito Lagoon.

Clams have also inspired the phrase " happy as a clam ", short for " happy as a clam at high tide " ( which should be happy because it cannot easily be dug up and eaten ).

In 1974, she received a Special Tony Award for her contribution to Broadway, with Clams on the Half Shell Revue playing at the Minskoff Theater.

Clams and other bivalve mollusks use this catch phase of smooth muscle to keep their shell closed for prolonged periods with little energy usage.

* The working titles for " Lines in the Sand " and " Burning My Soul " were " Cat's Tail " and " Carnival of Clams ", respectively.

Having become friends, Vilanch later wrote comedy material for Midler's 1974 Broadway show Clams on the Half Shell and later co-wrote Divine Madness for her in 1980.

* Clams Never Sang for My Father – The traditional Mayonnaise Lodge rite of passage has Bob Shumway and Frank Fusterman pitted against each other in the clam-wrestling contest – but their sons want no part of it.

Clams, crabs, and other marine life may add interest at coastal areas.

Clams feed on plankton by filter feeding.

Clams filter feed by drawing in water containing food using an incurrent siphon.

Clams can be eaten raw, steamed, boiled, baked or fried.

The song's meter allows it to be sung to a number of popular tunes including: " Amazing Grace "; " Greensleeves "; " The House of the Rising Sun "; " The Rising of the Moon / Wearing of the Green "; Beethoven's " Ode to Joy " ( in his Ninth Symphony, fourth movement ); " Oh My Darling, Clementine "; " Semper Paratus "; " The Marine Corps Hymn "; " The Yellow Rose of Texas "; " I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing "; " Ghost Riders in the Sky "; " Acres of Clams ", and the theme song from the TV show Gilligan's Island.

** More-Bad Clams Productions, Swell Productions-Mark Osborne and Steven B. Kalafer

The surrounding reefs have a rich marine fauna, including Giant Clams.

Clams, quahogs, and oysters were harvested by Wannamoisett residents and sold in Providence.

One was by a Spike Jones influenced group called The Clams.

* These Are The Clams I'm Breathing, ( audiocassette ), sound poetry, collaboration with Stuart Ross.

For many years, Wes Parker's Fried Clams was a landmark off state Route 128.

Clams with bellies have the clam's gastrointestinal tract left intact and impart a fuller flavor.

Clams and mussels also live in Raritan Bay.

Really, you are most indiscreet to drive him here yourself '', he said, frowning with displeasure.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Now we must become vague, for we are approaching one of the nation's most guarded secrets.

These things are important to almost all Persians and perhaps most important to the most ordinary.

The men crying love poems in an orchard on any summer's night are as often as not the lutihaw, mustachioed toughs who spend most of their lives in and out of the local prisons, brothels, and teahouses.

The most effective political inventions seem to make maximum use of natural harbors and are aware that restraining breakwaters can play only a minor part in the whole scheme.

The most primitive feelings are rudimentary value feelings, both positive and negative: a desire to appropriate this or that part of the environment into oneself ; ;

Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.

they are the most valuable of commodities -- and the most salable, for their demand far exceeds supply.

True, ideas are important, perhaps life's most precious treasures.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.

nor is there need to add that among them are some of the most highly individualized and most successful of his characters.

The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

By the same test predispositions destructive of human personality exercise their most sinister impact, with the result that men of good will are often trapped and nullified.

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

This understanding, of course, may in its turn take many forms and some of these -- especially those most interesting to the student of comparative literature -- are essentially historical.

In this essay, we are, along with most historians, interested in the more general or more inclusive ideas, that are so to speak `` writ large '' in history of literature where they recur continually.