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unusual facts about Adrift


Adrift

ADRIFT, a graphical user interface used to create and play text adventures


Dragon's Claw

But how in the world did Luke Fletcher end up adrift in the Tasman Sea, after having disappeared in the Mediterranean two months earlier?

Historical novels by Nigel Tranter set before 1286

When she objects to her pagan father's druidical practices, and refuses to marry the man picked out for her, she survives an 'execution' on Traprain Law and is cast adrift on the River Forth in a Coracle.

Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue

Jack Adrift: Fourth Grade Without a Clue is a 2003 children's novel by Jack Gantos, chronicling his 4th grade year in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, only calling the main character Jack Henry instead of Jack Gantos.

János Pilinszky

Adrift in Germany, he witnessed several camps before he could return to Hungary after the end of the war, most notably the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Kang the Conqueror

Embittered by this defeat, he travels forward to the 20th century and meets his ancestor Doctor Doom, adrift in space near Jupiter.

Laura Neiva

She was part of the cast of the short film DES. together with the stylist Alexandre Herchcovitch, who was responsible for Adrift's wardrobe.

Lautoka

Captain William Bligh spotted and roughly charted the coasts of Lautoka while making his epic voyage to Timor, in the wake of the Mutiny on the Bounty in which he and a few sailors loyal to him were thrown overboard and cast adrift on a life boat.

Lim Ju-hwan

The leitmotif of the book is taken from a historical figure, Hendrick Hamel, a bookkeeper with the Dutch East India Company found adrift in Jeju while heading to Japan.

Saint John's School of Alberta

Leonard Sax's second book, Boys Adrift, mentions Saint John's School implicitly in two separate illustrations.

Sargasso Sea

The Sargasso Sea features in classic fantasy stories by William Hope Hodgson, such as his novel The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" (1907), Victor Appleton's Don Sturdy novel, Don Sturdy in the Port of Lost Ships: Or, Adrift in the Sargasso Sea, and several related short stories.

Space debris

The ESA telecommunications satellite Olympus-1 was hit by a meteor on 11 August 1993 and left adrift.

Olympus-1 was hit by a meteor on 11 August 1993 and left adrift.

SS Columbia Eagle incident

During the mutiny, 24 of the crew were forced into two lifeboats and set adrift in the Gulf of Thailand while the remainder of the crew were forced to take the ship to a bay near Sihanoukville, Cambodia.

The Boy Least Likely To Christmas Special

The song "The First Snowflake" was featured in the episode "Adrift and at Peace" from season 7 of Grey's Anatomy.

The Cheesy Adventures of Captain Mac A. Roni

:Orphaned and set adrift on the sailing sea on a simple dinghy, if it was not for a school of Mackerel, the legend of Captain Mackerello Aloysius Roni a.k.a. “Captain Mac. A. Roni” would never be sung.

The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze

The disgusted Chinese set them adrift in a small boat; use Curly Joe's music-provoked strength to cadge food, clothes, and a trip to San Francisco from the manager of the monstrous sumo Itchy Kitchy (Iau Kea) after a demonstration in a park in Tokyo; stow away in a moving van, supposedly headed for New York.


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