shoal1 n.

          1.A shallow place in a body of water.
          2.A sandy elevation of the bottom of a body of water, constituting a
             hazard to navigation; a sandbank or sandbar.

        v. shoaled, shoal·ing, shoals
        v. intr.

shoal2 n.

          1.A large group; a crowd.
          2.A large school of fish or other marine animals.

        intr.v. shoaled, shoal·ing, shoals

             To come together in large numbers; throng.

I remember that when I first read this word in a phrase like " a shoal of fish" I thought that it must have been a misprint of "school of fish."

I just saw this word in an article about a landbridge that was photographed by NASA that connects India with Sri Lanka.  Straight out of the Ramayan.  Some Hindu are very excited about the discovery as proof to the truth of their scriptures.  It is strange that the time period of both the archaeologists and the scholars correlates so perfectly:

http://www.lankalibrary.com/geo/ancient/nasa.htm

Sitran

[quote author=Sitran link=board=wordsuggest;num=1059963169;start=0#0 date=08/03/03 at 22:12:49]I just saw this word in an article about a landbridge that was photographed by NASA that connects India with Sri Lanka.  Straight out of the Ramayan.  Some Hindu are very excited about the discovery as proof to the truth of their scriptures.  It is strange that the time period of both the archaeologists and the scholars correlates so perfectly:

http://www.lankalibrary.com/geo/ancient/nasa.htm

Amazing ! But when I looked at what NASA had to say about the «land bridge» (ever timorous and concerned not to get my feet wet, when I travelled across the Palk Strait separating India from Sri Lanka some 30 years ago, I took a boat), the best I could find was the following image from the Visible Earth series (click on the image and then the  icon which appears in the lower right-hand corner for a higher resolution image). Nothing at all about age or provenance of the structure ! In the event that you know of any sources which corroborate that an agreement on these matters does in fact exist between the «archeologists» and the Hindu scholars cited in the link you provide above, I’d be most interested in seeing them….

Henri

I am afraid all of the "Excited Hindus" may have jumped the gun!  I am hard pressed to find the names of the "archaeologists" cited in the article.  I did find one hopeful site:

http://www.geocities.com/uk20020/bridge_Srilanka_review.htm

And a NASA debunking:

http://www.punjabilok.com/science/nasa_debunks.htm

Sitran

Thanks for posting these links, Sitran !

Henri