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Raft is an open world survival-sandbox video game developed by Swedish developer Redbeet Interactive, and published by Axolot Games. The game was released as an early access title on 23 May 2018 on Steam , [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 1 ] after initial release as a free download on indie platform Itch.io in 2016.
The Kon-Tiki expedition was a 1947 journey by raft across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands, led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl. The raft was named Kon-Tiki after the Inca god Viracocha, for whom "Kon-Tiki" was said to be an old name.
After the war, the raft was repaired and on display at the United States Naval Academy Museum for the remainder of the war. [8] Currently on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum, the raft is displayed with a cut-out of the crew in the exhibit "Raft: A story of survival at sea". [10]
Raft is a 1991 hard science fiction book by British writer Stephen Baxter. Raft is both Baxter's debut novel and the first book in the Xeelee Sequence , although the Xeelee are not present. Raft was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1992.
The adaptation of "The Raft" for Creepshow 2 was filmed at Granite Basin Lake. "The Raft" was adapted to film as a segment of the 1987 horror anthology movie Creepshow 2, directed by Michael Gornick from a screenplay by George A. Romero. [1] The bulk of the story is faithful to the short story, but the ending was changed for the film.
George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1901 [1] [2] [3] – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters in crime melodramas of the 1930s and 1940s.
Heyerdahl was born in Larvik, [8] Norway, the son of master brewer Thor Heyerdahl (1869–1957) and his wife, Alison Lyng (1873–1965). As a young child, Heyerdahl showed a strong interest in zoology, inspired by his mother, who had a strong interest in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
The Cay is a teen novel written by Theodore Taylor.It was published in 1969. Taylor took only three weeks to write The Cay, having contemplated the story for over a decade after reading about an 11-year-old who was aboard the Dutch ship Hato when it was torpedoed in 1942, and who was last seen by other stranded survivors as he drifted away on a life raft. [1]