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Maelstrom
Maelstrom may refer to: * Maelstrom (whirlpool), a powerful whirlpool ** originally the Moskstraumen in English Amusement rides * Maelstrom (ride), a former log flume dark ride attraction in the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida * Maelstrom, a spinning flat thrill ride at Morey's Piers in Wildwood, New Jersey * Maelstrom, a gyro swing ride at Drayton Manor Theme Park, Staffordshire, UK Characters * Maelstrom (comics), fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics * Maelstrom, a character from ''Ice Age'' * Mael Strom, aka Yuki Yoshida, from the anime/manga '' Is This a Zombie?'' * Professor Maelstrom, a fictional villain in the 2019 Netflix series '' Carmen Sandiego'' * Maelstrom, also known as ''Wazir Kale'', a character from '' Hitman 2'' Film and television * ''Maelström'' (film), a 2000 Canadian film * ''Maelstrom'' (TV series), a 1985 BBC television drama serial * "Maelstrom" (''Battlestar Galactica'') Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maelstrom (comics)
Maelstrom is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Publication history Maelstrom first appears in '' Marvel Two-in-One'' #71 (Jan. 1981) and was created by Mark Gruenwald, Ralph Macchio, and Ron Wilson. Fictional character biography Maelstrom is the son of Phaeder, an Inhuman scientist banished from their city of Attilan for attempting cloning to increase Inhuman population numbers. Phaeder then lives among the Deviants, and bred with a Deviant female named Morga who gave birth to Maelstrom. With his father's tutoring, Maelstrom became a brilliant geneticist. After his father is incapacitated in an experiment, Maelstrom swears revenge on the Inhuman race and becomes a would-be conqueror. Maelstrom has first contact with Earth's metahumans when he sends his superpowered minions—Phobius, Gronk, and Helio—to the scientific island facility Hydro-Base to steal an Anti-Terrigen mist compound. This substance can undo the effect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maelstrom (role Playing Game)
''Maelstrom'' is a role-playing game by Alexander Scott, originally published in 1984 by Puffin Books as a single soft cover book. ''Maelstrom'' was published under Puffin's ''Adventure Gamebooks'' banner, along with the ''Fighting Fantasy'' series, '' The Cretan Chronicles'' trilogy, and the ''Starlight Adventures'' series. ''Maelstrom'' was written while Scott was a teenager in school. The game is set in a 16th to 17th century British setting – the Tudor Period and the Elizabethan era – although the rules can be adapted to other locations or time periods. Firearms (readily available in Europe at this time) are conspicuously absent from the setting, mentioned only in passing in the initial rulebook. ''Maelstrom'' has been republished as a PDF in 2008 by Arion Games, under license from Puffin Books. Arion Games also published seven supplementary rulebooks and resources such as ''The Maelstrom Companion'', the ''Beggars' Companion'', and several modules and settings resource ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maelström (film)
''Maelström'' is a 2000 Canadian psychological drama film written and directed by Denis Villeneuve. It stars Marie-Josée Croze as a depressed young businesswoman who becomes romantically involved with the son of a man she killed in a hit-and-run accident. Employing fantasy and comedic elements, ''Maelström'' is narrated by a talking fish. Villeneuve conceived of the story, basing it on his interest in car accidents and modelling the protagonist after various women he knew. He cast Croze, then a novice actress, in the lead role. Filming took place in Montreal in 1999, with animatronics to depict the fish narrator. The film premiered at the Montréal World Film Festival in August 2000 and received positive reviews, with some detractors. It won five Genie Awards, including Best Motion Picture, and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 51st Berlin International Film Festival. Plot While being gutted alive by a fishmonger, a dying fish chooses to share a story that took place in Quebec du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maelstrom (1992 Video Game)
''Maelstrom'' is a video game developed by Andrew Welch, released as shareware in November 1992 for Mac OS. The game is an enhanced clone of Atari, Inc.'s 1979 arcade game with a visual style similar to the Atari Games 1987 sequel, . was released when there were few action games for the high-resolution color displays of the Macintosh, so it garnered much interest, despite the dated concept, and led to the creation of Ambrosia Software. The game was later released as free and open-source software, resulting in ports for other platforms. Gameplay is played in a 2D overview in a section of space. The object of the game is to reach the highest score possible by shooting asteroids with a plasma cannon from a spaceship. The ship can move in any direction across the screen and also has a limited amount of shield. The player may also pick up power-ups and encounter unusual objects and enemies throughout the game. Development was created using THINK C and uses 18,000 lines of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Sandiego (TV Series)
''Carmen Sandiego'' is an animated action-adventure television series with educational elements, based on the media franchise of the same name created by Broderbund. The series is produced by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt with WildBrain serving as the production company, and contains a "serialized look at Carmen's backstory that is told from her perspective". Serving as an origin story for the fictional thieving villain of the same name, it is the fourth ''Carmen Sandiego'' television show after the PBS game shows '' Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?'' and '' Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?'', and the Fox animated series '' Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?''; it is also the first ''Carmen Sandiego'' related show since the end of ''Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego'' in 1999. Serving as WildBrain's second reboot of an animated DIC Entertainment series, the series sees many characters drawn from the franchise's 35-year history: Carmen Sandiego herself who debuted in the ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Ice Age Characters
The following is a list of the characters in the ''Ice Age'' films, mentioned by a name either presented in the films or in any other official material. Each character includes a summary when possible, the voice actor or actors associated with the character, and a description of the character along with any aliases, spouses and the character's species. The Herd Manny Manfred "Manny", is a woolly mammoth in all five ''Ice Age'' films. His personality is shown to be aloof, grumpy, sarcastic and standoffish, but is otherwise loving and courageous. In the first film, while passing through the icy cave, the herd discovers cave paintings of Manny with his wife and son, who were killed by humans; this is a very sentimental moment for Manny, since he failed to protect them. Manny finds love with Ellie in '' Ice Age: The Meltdown''. In '' Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs'', he is anxious when Ellie is pregnant. At the end of the film, he becomes the proud father of a baby daughter named P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moskstraumen
The Moskstraumen or Moskenstraumen is a system of tidal eddies and whirlpools, one of the strongest in the world, that forms at the Lofoten archipelago in Nordland county, Norway between the Norwegian Sea and the Vestfjorden. It is located between the Lofoten Point ( no, Lofotodden) on the island of Moskenesøya (in Moskenes Municipality) and the island of Mosken (in Værøy Municipality).Maelstrom Encyclopædia Britannica on-lineThe Lofoten Maelstrom , , includes animation of the tidal current Moskstraumen is unusual in that it occurs in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maelstrom (ride)
Maelstrom was a reversing Shoot the Chute dark ride attraction located in the Epcot theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, the ride opened on July 5, 1988, in the Norway Pavilion of the park's World Showcase section. It was a mix between a log chute and a traditional film attraction. Visitors rode boats patterned after longships that passed through various scenes that featured audio-animatronic figures. The attraction was originally supposed to be called SeaVenture, with the entrance sign during construction even displaying it as such. But sometime between March 1988 and the ride's opening, it was changed to Maelstrom. Closing On September 12, 2014, it was announced that the ride would be replaced by an attraction based on Disney's 2013 3D computer-animated musical film '' Frozen''. Maelstrom's final day of operation was October 5, 2014. '' Frozen Ever After'' opened on June 21, 2016. The ride Riders departed from a dock tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Descent Into The Maelström
"A Descent into the Maelström" is an 1841 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. In the tale, a man recounts how he survived a shipwreck and a whirlpool. It has been grouped with Poe's tales of ratiocination and also labeled an early form of science fiction. Plot Inspired by the Moskstraumen, it is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb in Lofoten, Norway. The story is told by an old man who reveals that he only appears old—"You suppose me a ''very'' old man," he says, "but I am not. It took less than a single day to change these hairs from a jetty black to white, to weaken my limbs, and to unstring my nerves." The narrator, convinced by the power of the whirlpools he sees in the ocean beyond, is then told of the "old" man's fishing trip with his two brothers a few years ago. Driven by "the most terrible hurricane that ever came out of the heavens", their ship was caught in the vortex. One brother was pulled into the waves ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maelstrom (Battlestar Galactica)
"Maelstrom" is the seventeenth episode of the third season from the science fiction television series, '' Battlestar Galactica''. Plot The episode begins with Starbuck restlessly asleep in her bunk and having a dream in which she finds herself in her apartment on Caprica painting the Eye of Jupiter on her wall. She becomes frustrated and splashes white paint over her artwork as the Cylon Leoben Conoy approaches her from behind. The two begin to aggressively make love until Starbuck awakens, breathing heavily. Later, Starbuck talks with Helo, who learns of her strange dreams and suggests she see an oracle. During the discussion, Starbuck catches a glimpse of a little beaten girl in a mirror; it is her younger self. Turning about, the child is not there. Starbuck then heads to Dogsville in the hangar and sees the oracle, Yolanda Brenn. She enters the tent, finding a small winged figurine. Suddenly, Brenn speaks from the shadows, explaining that the figurine is a depiction of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maelstrom (whirlpool)
A whirlpool is a body of rotating water produced by opposing currents or a current running into an obstacle. Small whirlpools form when a bath or a sink is draining. More powerful ones formed in seas or oceans may be called maelstroms ( ). ''Vortex'' is the proper term for a whirlpool that has a downdraft. In narrow ocean straits with fast flowing water, whirlpools are often caused by tides. Many stories tell of ships being sucked into a maelstrom, although only smaller craft are actually in danger. Smaller whirlpools appear at river rapids and can be observed downstream of artificial structures such as weirs and dams. Large cataracts, such as Niagara Falls, produce strong whirlpools. Notable whirlpools Saltstraumen Saltstraumen is a narrow strait located close to the Arctic Circle, south-east of the city of Bodø, Norway. It has one of the strongest tidal currents in the world. Whirlpools up to in diameter and in depth are formed when the current is at its strongest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maelstrom
''The Maelstrom'' is a 1917 silent film drama directed by Paul Scardon. It stars Dorothy Kelly, Earle Williams and Julia Swayne Gordon. Thomas Ince produced along with the Vitagraph Company. Cast *Dorothy Kelly – Peggy Greye-Stratton *Earle Williams – Jimmie Hallet *Julia Swayne Gordon – Gwennie Lyne *Gordon Gray – Cincinnati Red * Bernard Siegel – Dago Sam *Denton Vane – Ling *John S. Robertson *Robert Gaillard *Frank Crayne Preservation status A print is preserved in the Library of Congress collection Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation The National Audiovisual Conservation Center, also known as the Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation, is the Library of Congress's audiovisual archive located inside Mount Pony in Culpeper, Virginia. Establishment From 1969 to 1988, th ....''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress'' (<-book title) c.1978 the American Film Institute [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
