Danube bleak Danube bleak The Danube bleak or Caspian shemaya ("Alburnus chalcoides") is a species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Iran, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The Danube bleak is an elongate slim fish which can reach but a more normal size is 15 to 30 centimetres (6 to 12 in). There are 57 to 70 scales along the lateral line. The abdomen is compressed into a keel and the posterior end of this has no scales. The dorsal fin has eight to nine
Bleak Expectations 1873: Sir Philip tells the tale to his daughter and Sourquill, he speaks of "these modern times of 1873" [Series 1, Episode 2] Pre-1882: When Sir Philip is telling his story, women cannot vote, therefore it is before 1918. [Series 4, Episode 1] 1878-1882: HMS Pinafore has been written; it opened in 1878. [Series 5, Episode 5] 1878-1882: Anthony Trollope is alive; he died in 1882. 1883, meanwhile, is in the future for the protagonists. [Series 5, Episode 6] Bleak Expectations Bleak Expectations is a BBC Radio 4 comedy series that premièred in August 2007. It is a pastiche of