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4 unusual facts about Kraken


Dragon Knight

A Kraken, initially depicted as benign advisor to all marine and amphibious life, historical and mythical, but later revealed to be ambitious, and capable of magic, and desirous, according to Carolinus, "to rule the world".

Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep

Directed by Tibor Takács and starring Charlie O'Connell, Victoria Pratt, and Jack Scalia, the film focuses on a marine biologist and a sailor who join forces to find lost Trojan treasures while battling the giant squid who killed the sailor's parents while he was a child, and a treasure hunting mobster who wants the items for himself.

Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures

The player controls Shamu, the protagonist, who attempts to defeat Poseidon and the evil Kraken.

Tom Kerr

'Rip Kerrigan' was a strip he did for Buster in 1961-62, and also worked on 'Kelly's Eye', 'Captain Hurricane', 'The Steel Claw', 'Charlie Peace', 'Kraken' and 'Black Axe'.


Cruise Ship Tycoon

Players are able to build a cruise ship, equipping it with such things as Sushi Bars, Discos, and Piano Bars, before cruising through various zones and possibly coming across obstacles such as icebergs, the kraken.

Devil Dinosaur

In the midst of a battle with a kraken, Hulkpool and his unwitting companions accidentally time travel to Dinosaur World where Devil Dinosaur, Moon-Boy and the Small-Folk help destroy the kraken.

Judge Kraken

Immediately following Kraken's assessment, Dredd announced his resignation from the Justice Department, and took 'the long walk' into the Cursed Earth desert outside the city.

Rop Gonggrijp

While growing up in Wormer in the Dutch Zaanstreek area, he became known as a teenage hacker and appeared as one of the main characters in Jan Jacobs's book "Kraken en Computers" ("Hacking and computers", Veen uitgevers 1985, ISBN 90-204-2651-6) which describes the early hacker scene in the Netherlands.

Shonisaurus

In a 2011 lecture to the Geological Society of America, Mark McMenamin and Dianna Schulte McMenamin, geologists from Mount Holyoke College, put forward the controversial hypothesis that the large assemblage of remains were placed in deep water by an unidentified, gigantic, squid-like predator they referred to as a "kraken".

Subskimmer

At December 1992 it was being made (renamed Kraken 90) by Serrico, who were based at Saint-Georges-du-Vièvre in Normandy in France.


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