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Rare described 2022 as the "biggest year yet" for Sea of Thieves, and the studio planned to add more features, including Adventures, which are story-driven live events that last for around two weeks, and Mysteries, which would unfold over the course of several months. Each adventure was designed as a chapter in a long story, as the team hoped ...
In August 1977, Voyager 2 launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune during a rare 175-year planetary alignment. [4] The following month, Voyager 1 was launched from the same location. In March 1979, Voyager 1 approached Jupiter and followed 4 months later with Voyager 2's flyby.
The Kraken, a sea-serpent boss in the SNES RPG, EarthBound; The Kraken, a villain in the video game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance; The Kraken, a playable character in the PC game Archon II: Adept; The Kraken, a boss in Tomb Raider: Underworld; Kraken, an enemy in the Clash of the Titans; Kraken, an enemy in Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb
The Razer Kraken is a gaming/music headphone range created by Razer Inc. [60] "Kraken" is a modern make of twin-hose regulator for scuba diving. [61] Attorney Sidney Powell referred to releasing supposed evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election as "[releasing] the Kraken," inspiring a wave of memes and criticism. [62]
Plate c. 1544 depicting various sea monsters; compiled from the Carta marina. Sea serpent reported by Hans Egede, Bishop of Greenland, in 1734 A sea monster depicted in mid-Atlantic in Petrus Plancius' 1592 map of New France.
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 Cape clawless otter (Aonyx capensis capensis) is a subspecies of African clawless otter found in sub-Saharan Africa near permanent bodies of freshwater and along the seacoast. It is the largest of the Old World otters and the third largest otter after the giant otter ( Pteronura brasiliensis ) and the sea otter ( Enhydra lutris ).
Encounter dramatised in episode of 1998 documentary series The X Creatures; [227] fictionalised in The Adventures of Billy Topsail (1906) by Norman Duncan [228] and The Kraken (1995) by Don C. Reed. [229] [nb 19] A similar event is portrayed in The Shipping News (1993) by E. Annie Proulx. [231] 30 : 25 November? 1873