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Ark: Survival Evolved (stylized as ARK) is a 2017 action-adventure survival video game developed by Studio Wildcard. In the game, players must survive being stranded on one of several maps filled with roaming dinosaurs , fictional fantasy monsters, and other prehistoric animals, natural hazards, and potentially hostile human players.
Besides kraken, the monster went under a variety of names early on, the most common after kraken being horven ("the horv"). [17] Icelandic philologist Finnur Jónsson explained this name in 1920 as an alternative form of harv (lit. ' harrow ') and conjectured that this name was suggested by the inkfish's action of seeming to plow the sea. [16]
The island-like creature is indeed told of in the legend of Brendan's voyage, [39] though the giant fish is named Jasconius/Jaskonius. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] Hans Egede writing on the kracken ( kraken ) of Norway equates it with the Icelandic hafgufa , though has heard little on the latter.
Noah's Ark, the vessel by which God spares Noah, his family, and a remnant of all the world's animals from the flood. ( Christian mythology ) Chinese treasure ship (also Baochuan ), a large wooden ship in the fleet of admiral Zheng He , who led seven voyages during the early 15th-century Ming dynasty.
Capture (blue) and aquaculture (green) production of Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus) in thousand tonnes from 1950 to 2022, as reported by the FAO [2]The turbot (English: / ˈ t ɜːr b ə t / TUR-bət, French: .; [3] Scophthalmus maximus) is a relatively large species of flatfish in the family Scophthalmidae.
On the island of Tutuila in American Samoa (a U.S. territory), there is a location called Turtle and Shark (Laumei ma Malie) which is important in Samoan culture—the location is the site of a legend called O Le Tala I Le Laumei Ma Le Malie, in which two humans are said to have transformed into a turtle and a shark.
Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c. from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822; South Shetland Islands: Deception Island. Scale 1:50000 map. Insets: Sail Rock 1:10000. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2010
The structure of the Ark (and the chronology of the flood) is homologous with the Jewish Temple and with Temple worship. [9] Accordingly, Noah's instructions are given to him by God (Genesis 6:14–16): the ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high (approximately 134×22×13 m or 440×72×43 ft). [10]