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Plum Island is a 1997 novel by American author Nelson DeMille. This is the first novel to feature recurring character detective John Corey. This is the first novel to feature recurring character detective John Corey.
Underwater Panther, George Gustav Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian An underwater panther, called Mishipeshu (in Ojibwe syllabics: ᒥᔑᐯᔓ) or Mishibijiw (in syllabics: ᒥᔑᐱᒋᐤ) in Ojibwe (IPA: [mɪʃʃɪbɪʑɪw]), is one of the most important of several mythical water beings among many Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands and Great Lakes region ...
A gigantic island created purely as a parody of Plato's Atlantis. Mount Olympus "Olympos" was the name of the home of the Twelve Olympian gods of the ancient Greek world. [4] Nysa: A beautiful valley full of nymphs. Okeanos: The cosmic river encircling the Earth in Ancient Greek cosmology, also sometimes depicted as one of the Titan gods ...
The name Tieta honours the main character from the homonymous novel Tieta do Agreste by the famous author Jorge Amado, who was born in Bahia and lived in Salvador City [the type locality]. The name Antonieta further means 'priceless', alluding to the value of Tietasaura derbyiana sp. nov. as the first nominal ornithischian species from Brazil ...
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Plum Island is a barrier beach sheltering the Plum Island River, Plum Island Sound, and the mouths of the Parker, Rowley, Eagle Hill and Ipswich rivers. The entire area between the islands and the mainland is grassland laced with tidal creeks. At high tide the grassland is entirely submerged, in some places by only a few inches of water.
Water god in an ancient Roman mosaic. Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep, Turkey. A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.Water deities are common in mythology and were usually more important among civilizations in which the sea or ocean, or a great river was more important.
Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi refers to the area as the Miskatonic region, after its fictional river and university. [1] Lovecraft biographer Lin Carter calls it Miskatonic County, [2] [page needed] and the film Color Out of Space refers to it as Arkham County, although Lovecraft indicates that at least some of his fictional towns were located in the real-life Essex County of Massachusetts.