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2 unusual facts about The Captive


Brad Corrigan

Braddigan's second studio album, The Captive, draws its inspiration from the band's experiences in Managua, Nicaragua.

The Captive

La Captive (The Captive), 2000 drama film directed by Chantal Akerman



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Bess of Hardwick

She also features prominently in the book The Captive Queen of Scots by Jean Plaidy, in the short story "Antickes and Frets" by Susanna Clarke, in her 2006 collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories and The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare by Arliss Ryan, and is the main character in the Jan Westcott historical/biographical fiction novel The Tower and The Dream.

Camber the Heretic

In 1982, Camber the Heretic was ranked 6th in an annual poll of fantasy novels by Locus magazine readers, placing it between Robert Stallman's The Captive and F. Paul Wilson's The Keep.

Captive bolt pistol

The captive bolt pistol was invented in 1903 by Dr. Hugo Heiss, former director of a slaughterhouse in Straubing, Germany.

Douglas Darby

By 1970, as the New South Wales President of the Captive Nations Council, Darby was authorised by the Polish-Hungarian World Federation (Australian Branch) to be their Honorary Representative at the World Anti-Communist League (WACL) Conference in Tokyo and by 1973 he helped found the Australia-Free China Society, subsidised by both the Taiwanese Travel Service and the Taiwanese government.

Falaise, Calvados

Also, the Treaty of Falaise was signed at the castle in December 1174 between the captive William I, King of Scots, and the King of England Henry II Plantagenet.

Israelite Diaspora

Many of the captive inhabitants of the northern Kingdom of Israel, with its capital in Samaria, were exiled into distant regions of the Assyrian Empire, to the region of the Harbur River, the region around Nineveh and to the recently conquered cities of ancient Media.

Jeffrey Colwell

In late 2011 newly appointed camp commander David B. Woods, the officer who controlled the captive's daily life, ordered new, highly restrictive rules on lawyers communicating with their clients.

Kılıç Ali Pasha Complex

The Turkish researcher Rasih Nuri İleri claimed during his examination of the complex's foundation documents that Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes was a forced worker at the construction of the complex during his enslavement, like the Captive character in his novel Don Quixote.

La Captive

La Captive (The Captive) is a 2000 drama film directed by Chantal Akerman and featuring Olivia Bonamy, Sylvie Testud, and Stanislas Merhar.

Lombard cuisine

The famous Zuppa alla Pavese, now a renowned recipe, was said to have been invented on the spot to feed the captive king Francis I of France right after his defeat at the Battle of Pavia on February 24, 1525.

Nancy Drew: The Captive Curse

The Captive Curse is the 24th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.

Olive Oatman

After a year, a group of Mohave Indians visited the village and traded two horses, vegetables, blankets, and other trinkets for the captive girls, after which the girls walked for days to a Mohave village at the confluence of the Gila and Colorado rivers (in what today is Needles, California).

Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus

The triumph he held was famous for its spectacle, including the captive Arvernian king Bituitus in his silver battle armor.

Serendip Sanctuary

Originally used for farming and other purposes, it was purchased in 1959 by the state government of Victoria for wildlife research and the captive management and breeding of species threatened in Victoria, such as the Brolga, Magpie Goose, Australian Bustard, and Bush Stone-curlew.

Standing in the Light, The Captive Diary of Catherine Carey Logan

Standing in the Light, The Captive Diary of Catherine Carey Logan, is a Dear America novel written by Mary Pope Osborne.

The Captive Mind

The Captive Mind begins with a discussion of the novel Insatiability by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz and its plot device of Murti-Bing pills, which are used as a metaphor for dialectical materialism, but also for the deadening of the intellect caused by consumerism in Western society.

White woman of Gippsland

The white woman of Gippsland, or the captive woman of Gippsland, was supposedly a European woman rumoured to have been held against her will by Aboriginal Kurnai people in the Gippsland region of Australia in the 1840s.

Wolong National Nature Reserve

The region, including the Panda Research Center, was largely devastated on May 12, 2008, by a catastrophic earthquake, though the captive giant pandas were initially reported to be safe.