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Kraken was co-founded in 2011 by Jesse Powell, an alumnus of California State University, Sacramento with Thanh Luu and Michael Gronager. [7] [8] Powell was a consultant for Mt. Gox in resolving a security issue, and began working on Kraken as a replacement anticipating its death; Gox would indeed collapse in 2014, failing security audits.
Besides kraken, the monster went under a variety of names early on, the most common after kraken being horven ("the horv"). [16] 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. [15]
General Post Office (disambiguation) Group purchasing organization; Gun Position Officer, usually a lieutenant, responsible for the technical control of an artillery battery in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth forces
Buoy, said to be a nephew of the Fremont Troll, is a 6-foot (1.8 m) tall blue sea troll.His hair is "a nod to hockey flow and the waves of Puget Sound," said Lamont Buford, the Kraken's vice president of entertainment experience and production.
The Kraken Regiment (Ukrainian: Спецпідрозділ "Kraken", romanized: Spetspidrozdil "Kraken") is a Ukrainian military volunteer unit, part of the spetsnaz units of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR) [3] formed in 2022 as a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Seattle Kraken are a professional ice hockey team based in Seattle. The Kraken compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division and began play during the league's 2021–22 season. [1] Throughout their history, Kraken games have been televised primarily on Root Sports Northwest and radio broadcast primarily on ...
Crichton's assistant discovered the manuscript on one of Crichton's computers after his death in 2008, along with an unfinished novel, Micro (2011). [1]According to Marla Warren, there is evidence that Crichton had been working on Pirate Latitudes at least since the 1970s; to substantiate her position, she quotes a statement by Patrick McGilligan in the March 1979 issue of American Film that ...
The Essex rounds Cape Horn to the Pacific, hoping for better luck. In Atacames, Ecuador, a Spanish captain tells them of the bountiful "Offshore Grounds" 2,000 miles to the west, but says a vengeful "white whale" destroyed his ship, killing six of his men. Pollard and Chase lead the expedition west.