Octopussy

June 10, 1983 As I’ve demonstrated a few times in the past, I’m not a Bond guy. So believe it or not OCTOPUSSY is a first time viewing for me. I come to it with incomplete context, zero nostalgia, but also no preconceived notions of what a Bond movie or actor needs to be like. I can view it casually as-is and report that it’s pleasingly silly and mildly amusing. Some of its qualities that some would consider shortcomings barely need to be stated. Roger Moore (THE CANNONBALL RUN) as Jame...

Review: Sea Sparkle - Berlinale 2023 - Generation

BERLINALE 2023 GenerationReview: Sea Sparkleby Aurore Engelen17/02/2023 - BERLINALE 2023: Presented in the opening slot of the Generation Kplus line-up, Domien Huyghe’s sensitive and ultra-topical debut movie is a brilliant and sincere coming-of-age tale about bereavementSaar Rogiers in Sea SparkleLena is twelve years old, she likes skateboarding, she listens to Angèle, she’s pretty good at sailing, and she has a great time with her best friend. She’s enjoying a joyful and carefree childhood ...

Analysis of Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Sharer

In late 1909, Joseph Conrad broke off working on his political novel about Russia, Under Western Eyes, to write the short story "The Secret-Sharer: An Episode from the Sea." First issued in two parts in 1910, in the August and September issues of Harper’s Monthly Magazine, it was later published, in October 1912, as the second of three stories in the collection ’Twixt Land and Sea: Tales. The story is generally accepted as Conrad’s rewriting of a killing, subsequent escape, and apparent suici...

Summary of some interesting entries from the online dictionary of Symbols from University of Michigan

Sulfur as hellSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/sulfur.html Sulfur According to Christian legend, sulfur is associated with HELL and the Devil (Cooper, 1978), and is often referred to as brimstone. Up one level Back to document index ShadowSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/shadow.html ShadowWith light, the shadow is the Chinese yin and yang; shadows are often identified with a person...

Bathysphere - The Official William Beebe Web Site

Bathysphere - The Official William Beebe Web Site Clip source: Bathysphere%20-%20The%20Official%20William%20Beebe%20Web%20Site https://sites.google.com/site/cwilliambeebe/The Official William Beebe Web SiteSearch this siteNavigationCharles William BeebeBathyspherePheasant ExpeditionBlair NilesElswyth ThaneBooksWhyLinksMagazine Articles2846days since 80th Anniversary of World Record Bathysphere DescentBeebe's Voice William Beebe audio on "Information Please."1911https://sites.google.com/site/...

Space Navy (thing) by Kesper North - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Space Navy (thing) See all of Space Navy, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by Kesper North Sat Nov 04 2000 at 0:11:16 A frequently-seen concept in science fiction, wherein a military force in interplanetary or interstellar space is patterned off of the old navies of Earth's oceans. Ship classes are typically organized into categories correspoding to so-called "wet navy" types -- cruisers, destroyers, frigates, et cetera -- a...

hawse - as HAL

hawse (n.) From etymonline: "part of a ship's bow containing the hawse-holes," late 15c., from Old English or Old Norse hals "part of a ship's prow," literally "neck," from Proto-Germanic *h(w)alsaz, the general Germanic word (source also of Gothic, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, German hals), cognate with Latin collum (see collar (n.)), from PIE root from PIE root *kwel- (1) "revolve, move round; sojourn, dwell." Respelled with -aw- 16c.

halieutuc - HAL and Ovid and salty fish

halieutic (adj.) "pertaining to fishing," 1854, from Latin halieuticus, from Greek halieutikos "pertaining to fishing," from halieuein "to fish," from hals "the sea," literally "salt" (from PIE root *sal-"salt"). Halieutics "writing on the art of fishing" is from 1640s (Latin Halieutica was the title of a poem on fishing by Ovid).

A Rare Encounter with the Elusive Giant Phantom Jellyfish Captures Its 33-Foot Billowing Limbs | Colossal

A Rare Encounter with the Elusive Giant Phantom Jellyfish Captures Its 33-Foot Billowing Limbs | Colossal  Photography ScienceA Rare Encounter with the Elusive Giant Phantom Jellyfish Captures Its 33-Foot Billowing LimbsDecember 7, 2021Grace EbertBack in August, we shared news of a previously undiscovered jellyfish so vibrant that its brilliant red body was a stark contrast to its deepwater environment. Now thanks to researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, we...

Ten Notorious French Pirates and Ten Notorious Dutch Pirates

Ten Notorious French PiratesSourceURL: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1879/ten-notorious-french-pirates/ Piracy has involved many nationalities over the centuries, but one of the prominent groups in the medieval and early modern periods was the French pirates, who terrorised the Atlantic, the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean. French writers often preferred to use the term filibuster and corsair for pirates who operated as privateers, and here are presented t...

How the Ancient Greeks Invented the Anchors for Boats

 Search  GreekReporter.comAncient GreeceHow the Ancient Greeks Invented the Anchors for Boats How the Ancient Greeks Invented the Anchors for Boats By Philip Chrysopoulos November 21, 2021  A replica of an ancient Greek ship. Credit: maxpixel, CC0/Public Domain The origin of the sea anchor as we know it today can be found in Ancient Greece and specifically around 592 BC. As sea people, ancient Greeks used to take long journeys,...

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Doctor Octopus (person) by disarmed42 - Everything2.com

Doctor Octopus (person) See all of Doctor Octopus, no other writeups in this node. There have been two Doctors Octopus in the Marvel Comics universe. The better known of the two, Dr. Otto Octavius, first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #3, written by Stan Lee with art by Steve Ditko.Dr. Otto Octavius was a brilliant nuclear physicist who had invented a four-armed device that he used to manipulate radioactive elements. The arms telescoped to varying lengths and were incredibly stron...

Henry Every

Henry Every (b. 1653), also known as Henry Avery, Benjamin Bridgeman, ‘Long Ben’ and (incorrectly) John Avery, was one of the most savage and successful pirates in the Golden Age of Piracy. Capturing a treasure ship of the Mughal emperor in 1695 with a cargo worth over $95 million today, he promptly disappeared and was never seen again. Thanks to his jackpot capture of the Ganij-i-Sawai, Every gained the nickname ‘Arch Pirate’. It has long been said that Every’s huge success inspired ma...

Silas Marner

Introduction to Silas Marner Written by Mary Ann Evans, the popular George Eliot, Silas Marner first appeared in England back in 1861 and reached the United States quite later. Despite its initial popularity, the novel lost its worth to her later popular novels, Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss. However, later the story proved its worth when it became popular. The novel tells the story of a simpleton, a weaver, who after being robbed, leaves the area but later proved highly supportive...

Becoming Cousteau

Whether you watched his films and television shows or are simply familiar with his kicky red hat, it’s hard to imagine anyone who doesn’t know the name of famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. The Frenchman brought the living world of the oceans into people’s homes and was an early celebrity voice emphasizing the horrors of climate change. But it’s often easy to assume Cousteau lived his entire life underwater — and that’s where director Liz Garbus hopes to tell a new story with "Becoming Cou...

The Pink Salt Ponds of Camargue, France

Check out Italian photographer Paolo Pettigiani’s photos of the evaporation ponds of Camargue, France. While these ponds are industrially harvested for their salt, the pink color of the water is naturally occurring in the salt marshes of the area, caused by halophile dunaliella salina algae. The area is also an important bird habitat and is one of the few places in Europe that flamingos live, which might seem like a coincidence until you learn that flamingos gain their pink color from eating ...

Long Voyage Home, The (1940)

"When a man goes to sea, he ought to give up thinking about things on shore." Synopsis: The crew on a British tramp steamer — including Smitty (Ian Hunter), Cocky (Barry Fitzgerald), Yank (Ward Bond), Driscoll (Thomas Mitchell), and Swedes Ole (John Wayne) and Axel (John Qualen) — carouse together while experiencing a variety of challenges, such as Yank being wounded, the crew suspecting Smitty of being a German spy, and Ole’s desire to finally return home to Sweden. Genres, Themes, A...

The Sky Was Blue the Sea Was Blue and the Boy Was Blue review – a monochrome marvel

The Sky Was Blue the Sea Was Blue and the Boy Was Blue review – a monochrome marvel The Guardian - Back to homeContribute Sign inNewsOpinionSportCultureLifestyleShow MoreFilmBooksMusicArt & designTV & radioStageClassicalGamesLockdown cultureThe Sky Was Blue the Sea Was Blue and the Boy Was Blue review – a monochrome marvel Victoria Miro, London; online on Vortic Collect from TuesdayCobalt, indigo, ultramarine; the colour of sadness and a summer’s day… in this uplifting virtual sh...

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Ophthalmite (definition) by Webster 1913 - Everything2.com

Ophthalmite (definition) See all of Ophthalmite, no other writeups in this node. Oph*thal"mite (?), n. [Gr. the eye.] Zool. An eyestalk; the organ which bears the compound eyes of decapod Crustacea. © Webster 1913. link viewEpicenter You have 1 C! and 50 votes left today. server time Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 8:51:03 your time Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 4:51:03Current User PollChatterbox(r) 2020-09-13@20:41 (9.7 y) Cool Man Eddie says Hey, Chord just cool...

Burgess as Yacht

Discovering LaRochefoucauld | The New Criterion

The lightning & the key: a letter from William Franklin to Joseph Priestlyby Daniel Mark Epstein Exile to exile, England to America, Driven hence by nothing more than faith In our convictions, we commune once more, Old friend, man of science, man of God. Here they torched your house, there they burnt mine. Here your people fear your love of France— Marat, Danton, and the bonnet rouge— As mine once feared my fealty to the Crown. Hail, fellow, outcast across the sea! And thanks abundant, deep, ...

porpoise etymology

I wonder if there is any connection (even just in Kubrick or others doing wordplay, NOT necessarily -- or at all -- because of an etymological connection, which I doubt) . But if the porpoise is a pig, the word "mereswyn" does remind me an awful lot of the word "Martian" which of course is about Mars, not the sea. But still . . . worth a query or two. -zas 7 entries found Related entries & more  Advertisement Related entries & more  Related entries & more  Related entries & more  Relate...