19th century craftsmen were famed for their ornate wooden hunting hats, which feature elaborate and colorful designs and may be trimmed with sea lion whiskers, feathers, and ivory.

The baidarka ( small skin boat ) was a small boat covered in sea lion skin that was used for hunting because of its sturdiness and maneuverability.

Recent genetic evidence, however, suggests Callorhinus is more closely related to some sea lion species, and the fur seal / sea lion subfamily distinction has been eliminated from many taxonomies.

" As he Emperor Alexios I knew that the Pisans were skilled in sea warfare and dreaded a battle with them, on the prow of each ship he had a head fixed of a lion or other land-animal, made in brass or iron with the mouth open and then gilded over, so that their mere aspect was terrifying.

Other marine mammal prey species include nearly 20 species of seal, sea lion and fur seal.

The decline of sea otters followed a decline in harbour seal and Steller sea lion populations, the killer whale's preferred prey, which in turn may be substitutes for their original prey, now decimated by industrial whaling.

Proteus emerged from the sea to sleep among his colony of seals, but Menelaus was successful in holding him, though Proteus took the forms of a lion, a serpent, a leopard, a pig, even of water or a tree.

* Long Necked or Megalotaria longicollis: A, long necked, short tailed sea lion.

* 1A Long Necked: A sea lion with a long neck and long tail.

Traditionally, otariids had been subdivided into the fur seal ( Arctocephalinae ) and sea lion ( Otariinae ) subfamilies, with the major distinction between them being the presence of a thick underfur layer in the former.

Recent analyses of the genetic evidence suggests that the Callorhinus ursinus is in fact more closely related to several sea lion species.

Furthermore, many of the Otariinae appear to be more phylogenetically distinct than previously assumed ; for example, the Japanese sea lion ( Zalophus japonicus ) is now considered a separate species, rather than a subspecies of the California sea lion ( Zalophus californius ).

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In the South American sea lion, there was concern that recent population crashes would reduce genetic diversity.

Even so, the diversity within the lines allowed for great variation in the gene pool that may help to protect the South American sea lion from extinction.

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The California sea lion ( Zalophus californianus ) is a coastal eared seal native to western North America.

It is one of five species of sea lion.

Battlespace is a unified strategy to integrate and combine armed forces for the military theatre of operations, including air, information, land, sea and space.

The goddess ' appearance offered contrasting colours to the eye, for her body was dazzling white, intimating her descent from heaven and her robe was dark blue, denoting her emergence from the sea ... But now becomingly took the centre of the stage to the great acclamation of the theatre, and smiled sweetly ... still more affectingly began to gently stir herself ; with gradual, lingering steps, restrained swaying of the hips, and slow inclination of the head she began to advance, her refined movements matching the soft wounds of the flutes.

This use of " chicken " survives in the phrase " Hen and Chickens ", sometimes used as a British public house or theatre name, and to name groups of one large and many small rocks or islands in the sea ( see for example Hen and Chicken Islands ).

Again the UK stood alone, and the sea became the major theatre of war against Napoleon's allies.

In the Mediterranean theatre and the Baltic sea it carried out attacks on German shipping moving war materials from Italy to North Africa and from Scandinavia to Germany.

The Minack Theatre () is an open – air theatre, constructed above a gully with a rocky granite outcrop jutting into the sea ( minack from Cornish meynek means a stony or rocky place ).

A sea change in the history of the Irish theatre came with the establishment in Dublin in 1899 of the Irish Literary Theatre by W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, George Moore and Edward Martyn.

In August 1943, the Allies created the combined South East Asian Command, to assume overall strategic command of all air sea and land operations of all national contingents in the theatre.

In 1931 a fire started in the seaward-end theatre, which after a sea and land based rescue, saved all 800 people on board at that time.

In the autumn of 282 BC, Tarentum celebrated their festival of Dionysus ; while in their theatre in front of sea, they saw ten Roman ships, with soldiers and supplies for the Roman garrison of Thurii, entering the Gulf of Taranto.

Frost's last action in this theatre was in Italy when the entire 1st Airborne Division landed at Taranto by sea.

From this time the Bruttians as a people disappear from history: but their country again became the theatre of war during the revolt of Spartacus, who after his first defeats by Crassus, took refuge in the southernmost portion of Bruttium ( called by Plutarch the Rhegian peninsula ), in which the Roman general sought to confine him by drawing lines of intrenchment across the isthmus from sea to sea.

In 1924 construction started to build an ' English seaside style ' amusement pier at Coogee Beach, on 24 July 1928, the pier was officially opened, reaching 180 meters out into the sea complete with a 1400 seat theatre, a 600 capacity ballroom, a 400 seat restaurant upstairs, small shops and a penny ( machine ) arcade.

His most important texts are the novels Kamarádi svobody ( Friends of Freedom ) and Měsíc ( The Moon ), a novel involving poetism, the theatre plays Mrtvé moře ( Dead sea ), written in 1917, Jánošík ( Janosik ), in 1910, and Generace ( Generation ), in 1921.

* The Thekla ( Old Profanity Showboat ), originally a theatre based aboard a sea ship, now a music venue in Bristol, England

More recently the US Department of Defense introduced a concept of Battlespace as the integrated information management of all significant factors that impact on combat operations by armed forces for the military theatre of operations, including information, air, land, sea and space.

Nowadays, the most noteworthy remains of the theatre and the buildings partially submerged by the sea all belong to the Roman period.

It was the opening sea battle of the Seven Years ' War in the European theatre.

The deployment of a portion of these forces beyond our shores, on land and sea, is persuasive demonstration of our determination to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies for collective security.

He is thought either to have been killed by the Fascists as soon as he landed or to have killed himself by flying out to sea and crashing his plane.

In contrast to this Stoic-patristic view, Utopia implies that the nature of man is such that to rely on individual conscience to supply the deficiencies of municipal law is to embark on the bottomless sea of human sinfulness in a sieve.

Progress in predicting water conditions is encouraging, but little guidance is available to the man at sea on the use of such information.

I think you made a dam good chouise to turn off as nise a feler as Alf Dyer and let that orney thefin, drunkard, damed card playing sun of a bich com to sea you, the god damed theaf and lop yeard pigen tode helion, he is too orney for hel.

An ordinary sea wave is rarely more than a few hundred feet long from crest to crest -- no longer than 320 feet in the Atlantic or 1,000 feet in the Pacific.

The luminosity of the water is now believed to have been caused by the stimulation of vast numbers of the luminescent organism Noctiluca miliaris by the turbulence of the sea.

Newest small-boat playground is the Salton Sea, a once-dry desert sinkhole which is now a salty lake 42 miles long and 235 feet below sea level.

He was perhaps a trifle tipsy, having been long at sea where drinking is not permitted, and consequently out of practice ; ;

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

" From sea to shining sea " is an American idiom meaning from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean ( or vice versa ).

A term similar to this is the Canadian motto A Mari Usque Ad Mare (" From sea to sea.

As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.

That is true at sea level ; those limits increase with elevation above sea level although in mountainous regions, there is often no direct view of the true horizon.

A possible etymology is a derivation from the Greek word – aiges = " waves " ( Hesychius of Alexandria ; metaphorical use of ( aix ) " goat "), hence " wavy sea ", cf.