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An illustration from a 1902 printing of Moby-Dick, one of the renowned American sea novels. Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.
William McDougall, writing in 1932, put forward a conjecture observing that "five distinguishable but separable factors" could be identified when looking at personality. His suggestions, "intellect, character, temperament, disposition and temper", have been seen as "anticipating" the adoption of the Big Five model in subsequent years. [8]
The ocean then chooses Moana to return the heart to Te Fiti. Tui and Sina, Moana's parents, try to keep her away from the ocean to prepare her to become the island's chief. Sixteen years later, blight strikes her island and to attempt to prevent it, Moana suggests going beyond the reef which her father forbids her to. She tries with Pua the Pig ...
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.
In Southeast Asia, the importance of the sea gave rise to many myths of epic ocean voyages, princesses on distant islands, monsters and magical fish lurking in the deep. [5] In Northern Europe, kings were sometimes given ship burials when the body was laid in a vessel surrounded by treasure and costly cargo and set adrift on the sea. [21]
The character of Norman Bates from Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" was not directly based on a real person, but he was inspired by the chilling real-life story of serial killer Ed Gein.
In 2017 Ryan Jude Novelline created a gown that he displayed at New York Comic Con based on the story of Undine. [45] The eponymous Undine Barge Club of Philadelphia is an amateur rowing club on Boathouse Row in Philadelphia. Undine is the title and the main character of a 2020 German movie directed by Christian Petzold.
Namor was created by writer-artist Bill Everett. [4] The character first appeared in April 1939 in the prototype for a planned giveaway comic titled Motion Picture Funnies Weekly, which was produced by the comic book packager Funnies Inc. [5] The only eight known samples among those created to send to theater owners were discovered in the estate of the deceased publisher in 1974.