1 Fish live in water. 2  Fish have a backbone. 3  They are vertebrates. 4  Fish breathe using gills. 5  They absorb oxygen through the gills. 6  Almost all fish are cold-blooded. 7  Two of the exceptions are the tuna and the Pacific salmon shark, which can raise their body temperature to some degree.o identify an animal as a fish, it should have these characteristics: 1  Fish live in water. 2  Fish have a backbone. 3  They are vertebrates. 4  Fish breathe using gills. 5  They absorb oxygen through the gills.
Family and education. Martin Luther was born at Eisleben in Saxony, Germany, on November 10, 1483, the son of Hans and Margaret Luther. Luther's parents were peasants, but his father had worked hard to raise the family's status, first as a miner and later as the owner of several small mines, to become a small-scale businessman.
Born Colin Luther Powell on April 5, 1937, in Harlem, New York. The son of Jamaican immigrants Luther and Maud Powell, Colin was raised in the South Bronx. Powell was educated in the New York City public schools, and graduated from Morris High School in 1954 without any definite plans for where he wanted to go in life.