Description: The Kerberos is a steamship that is commissioned to carry diverse travelers of different cultures and backgrounds from London to New York with the prospect of a better life. However, the voyage goes awry when they discover another migrant ship, the Prometheus, adrift on open sea.
Description: The Kerberos is a steamship that is commissioned to carry diverse travelers of different cultures and backgrounds from London to New York with the prospect of a better life. However, the voyage goes awry when they discover another migrant ship, the Prometheus, adrift on open sea.
Description: The Kerberos is a steamship that is commissioned to carry diverse travelers of different cultures and backgrounds from London to New York with the prospect of a better life. However, the voyage goes awry when they discover another migrant ship, the Prometheus, adrift on open sea.
Description: According to David F. Brown’s book Tomcat Alley: A Photographic Roll Call of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, 160694 was assigned to VF-51 during the making of the movie and received full Top Gun movie markings. The aircraft featured the fictious VF-1 badge, which was actually the insignia for VAW-110, an E-2C Hawkeye squadron based at Naval Air Station (NAS) Miramar. During the movie Top Gun, this Tomcat displayed Lt. Mitchell’s name and callsign plus that of his new RIO, Ltjg. Sam “Merlin” Wells. It was also equipped as a camera ship and shot many of the dramatic air-to-air ACM footage. This Tomcat was stricken on Sep. 26, 1994.
Description: Founded by Kier Eagan in 1865, Lumon Industries is the world’s leading biotechnology company. Lumon’s first product, a topical salve, was developed in 1866. Every leader of the company since its founding has been a member of the Eagan family. It is hinted that Lumon is a very large and powerful company, having over a hundred thousand employees and numerous offices all over the world. From their humble beginnings as a salve company, Lumon grew into medical technoloy and other spheres of the tech space. While it is influential across its corporate reach, its headquarters in Kier, PE do the most cutting edge work.
Description: Skynet is a fictional artificial neural network-based conscious group mind and artificial general superintelligence system that serves as the antagonistic force of the Terminator franchise. In the first film, it is stated that Skynet was created by Cyberdyne Systems for SAC-NORAD. When Skynet gained self-awareness, humans tried to deactivate it, prompting it to retaliate with a nuclear attack, an event which humankind in (or from) the future refers to as Judgment Day. John Connor forms a human resistance against Skynet's machines in the future, which include Terminators, and ultimately leads the resistance to victory.
Description: In 2035, the crew of the Ares III mission to Mars is exploring Acidalia Planitia on Martian solar day (sol) 18 of their 31-sol expedition. A severe dust storm threatens to topple their Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV). The mission is scrubbed, but as the crew evacuates, astronaut Mark Watney is struck by debris. The telemetry from his suit's bio-monitor is damaged and Watney is erroneously presumed dead. With the MAV (Mars Ascent Vehicle) on the verge of toppling, the remaining crew takes off for their orbiting vessel, the Hermes.
Description: The Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs (FBSA) is a government agency that was opened by the White House at the end of Season Two. It is run by former congresswoman Victoria Neuman acting in the position of director. Right before Victoria Neuman kills Alastair Adana, Adana offers Neuman secretive information on a dozen supes similar to the information he had on Stormfront that could be used as a "death blow" against Stan Edgar and the rest of Vought. In exchange, she would expedite the Church's tax-exempt status.
Description: Strategic Air Command (SAC) was both a United States Department of Defense Specified Command and a United States Air Force (USAF) Major Command responsible for command and control of the strategic bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile components of the United States military's strategic nuclear forces from 1946 to 1992. SAC was also responsible for the operation of strategic reconnaissance aircraft and airborne command post aircraft as well as most of the USAF's aerial refueling fleet, including aircraft from the Air Force Reserve (AFRES) and Air National Guard (ANG).
Description: The fictional river that the friends want to canoe down is called the Cahulawassee, but the movie was filmed on a 10 mile stretch of the Chattooga River, between Northern Georgia and Southern South Carolina. The Chattooga is notoriously difficult to canoe, with tons of intense rapids-- and, much like the Cahulawassee, it was selected as a filming location because it's so isolated from civilization; just a few things to keep in mind, should you elect to visit.
Description: "With a year round average of 9,190 population, the quiet vacation-town of Amity Island has had quite a past - the “shark attacks” of ‘74 completely crippled all town business. Two years later Mayor Vaughn reopened the suffering Island in 1976 and since, Amity Island has been a huge vacation and sight seeing spot due to it’s world class Captain Jake’s Amity Boat Tours. Just ask yourself, is it really safe to go back into the once shark-infested waters?"- Historical Marker.
Description: Marion Ravenwood inherited The Raven following the death of her father Abner, who had bought the tavern to finance his archaeological endeavors. Mohan worked as the bar's enforcer and had been an assistant to both father and daughter. In 1936, The Raven was burned down when Nazi agent Arnold Ernst Toht attempted to steal the headpiece to the Staff of Ra from Marion. Her saviour, Indiana Jones, and she were pressed for time and saw little reason to search the building's remains for possessions afterward. However, Marion was unaware that Abner, fearing his daughter would try to sell them, had hidden several small caches of artifacts under the building's floorboards that survived the blaze.
Description: René Emile Belloq was a French archaeologist and rival of his American counterpart Indiana Jones. Born in Marseilles, Belloq studied archaeology at the Sorbonne where he met and befriended Jones but eventually plagiarized his work with which he went on to win the Archaeological Society Prize. A career at the Louvre was cut short when Belloq was suspected of funding a grave robbing expedition and afterwards became a mercenary archaeologist with increasingly unethical methods in carrying out his work.
Description: At nightfall, Quint and Hooper drunkenly exchange stories about their assorted scars, and Quint reveals that he survived the attack on the USS Indianapolis. The shark returns unexpectedly, ramming the boat's hull, and disabling the power. The men work through the night, repairing the engine. In the morning, Brody attempts to call the Coast Guard, but Quint, who has become obsessed with killing the shark without outside assistance, smashes the radio. After a long chase, Quint harpoons the shark with another barrel. The line is tied to the stern cleats, but the shark drags the boat backward, swamping the deck and flooding the engine compartment.
Description: Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut. It tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with a UFO.
Description: In the meantime, Sam Emerson has made the acquaintance of two young brothers, Edgar and Alan Frog. The Frog brothers run the local comic book store for their burn-out parents. Upon learning that Sam is new to the area they force a couple of vampire themed comic books on him despite his protestation that he does not like horror comics. They explain to him that they may one day save his life. Sam is initially mocking of their claims but becomes suspicious of his brother Michael's increasingly bizarre behavior, including sleeping all day and being sensitive to sunlight. One day, as Sam is taking a bath, Michael, driven by bloodlust attempts to attack him, but is fought off by the family's dog.
Description: Jack-49 was one among many Jack Harper clones acting as drone repair technicians, known as "techs". He was 2 weeks from the end of a 5-year tour on earth before leaving earth permanently to settle on Titan. Brainwashed into thinking the human remnants were alien invaders known as "scavs", he had been unwittingly helping to wipe out humanity. A series of events where he visits locations from his memories lead to Jack-49 discovering the truth and ultimately saving the human race.
Description: BiBi's was a bar in downtown Los Angeles established sometime before 2049. Outside of the bar, Wallace food stations full of processed synthetic food could be purchased. Flanking both sides of the bar (implied to be part of the bar) were rooms with clouded glass where people could have sex. LAPD Blade Runner K, after his meeting with Luv at the Wallace Corporation to investigate the identity of a long deceased replicant, situated himself outside of BiBi's. The doxie Mariette and her compatriots, just outside of BiBi's, were tasked by Freysa Sadeghpour to find out what K knew about the replicant's child.
Description: The fictional river that the friends want to canoe down is called the Cahulawassee, but the movie was filmed on a 10 mile stretch of the Chattooga River, between Northern Georgia and Southern South Carolina. The Chattooga is notoriously difficult to canoe, with tons of intense rapids-- and, much like the Cahulawassee, it was selected as a filming location because it's so isolated from civilization; just a few things to keep in mind, should you elect to visit.
Description: U.S. Outpost #31 is a U.S. Antarctic research center which first appears in the 1982 film The Thing and is subsequently featured in the 2002 video-game of the same name and two Dark Horse comic-books - The Thing from Another World and The Thing from Another World: Questionable Research. The station is operated by the United States and is manned by a crew of twelve men.
Description: Thule Station was a Norwegian Antarctic geological research center which first appears in the 1982 film The Thing. The facility was subsequently featured in the 2011 prequel of the same name, where it serves as the primary setting of the film. It also appears in the 2002 video-game. The station is operated by Norway and is typically manned by a crew of ten men (excluding visiting researchers).
Description: The Great Northern Hotel is a fictional setting featured in the television series T--- P---. It is where much of the series takes place. The lead character, FBI Agent Dale Cooper, is a resident of the hotel for the length of the original series. The exterior of The Great Northern Hotel is the Salish Lodge in Snoqualmie, WA. (In 1988, the building was completely remodeled and reopened as the Salish Lodge. The lodge that inspired The Great Northern Hotel is the Kiana Lodge in Poulsbo, Washington. The Kiana Lodge was built in the late 1920s and is furnished with alder bentwood pieces dating from that era.
Description: The Fog is a 1980 American supernatural horror film directed by John Carpenter, who also co-wrote the screenplay and created the music for the film. It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh and Hal Holbrook. It tells the story of a strange, glowing fog that sweeps over a small coastal town in California, bringing with it the vengeful ghosts of mariners who were killed in a shipwreck there 100 years before.
Description: Hill Valley is a fictional town in California that serves as the setting of the Back to the Future trilogy and its animated spin-off series. In the trilogy, Hill Valley is seen in four different time periods – 1885, 1955, 1985, and 2015 – as well as in a dystopian alternate 1985.[1] The films contain many sight gags, verbal innuendos and detailed set design elements, from which a detailed and consistent history of the area can be derived. The city name "Hill Valley" is a joke, being an oxymoron. However, an early script for Back to the Future Part II mentioned that Hill Valley was named after its founder, William "Bill" Hill.
Description: Northeast Airlines 140 was a commercial airliner that was heading to Dulles International Airport on Christmas Eve, 1990. The plane was a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. After a terrorist takeover of the control tower, the plane became dangerously close to running out of fuel and crashing, like many other flights circling the runway.
Description: Not to be confused with Costa Verde In Fiction. Val Verde is a fictional country or city used by Hollywood writer and producer Steven E. de Souza when his stories require a South- or Central-American locale that will not cause legal or diplomatic problems. The location first appeared in his 1985 film Commando. The name translates as "Green Valley", as "Val" is valley in numerous Latin-based languages (Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, old-fashioned French, Galician and others).
Description: The Running Man is a 1987 American dystopian action film directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, María Conchita Alonso, Richard Dawson, Yaphet Kotto, and Jesse Ventura. The film's story about a television show where convicted criminal "runners" must escape death at the hands of professional killers is very loosely based on the 1982 novel of the same name written by Stephen King and published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
Description: Hadley's Hope was a human terraforming, research[1] and mining[2] colony that was established on LV-426 in 2157.[3] The settlement was co-financed by the Extrasolar Colonization Administration and the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, and by 2179 maintained a constant population of 158 colonists. It was subject to a major Xenomorph infestation that ultimately all but destroyed the complex.
Description: On Saturday, March 24, 1984, five students at Shermer High School report at 7:00 a.m. for an all-day detention: nerdy Brian Johnson, varsity wrestler Andrew Clark, introverted outcast Allison Reynolds, popular snob Claire Standish, and rebellious delinquent John Bender. In voiceover, the five are described respectively as "a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal".
Description: Amity Island is a fictional island located off the coast of New England, and is the main setting of the Jaws franchise. The island is known for its clean air, beautiful beaches, and many of its local fishermen. The island is also infamous for its series of horrifying and fatal shark attacks.
Description: The Colonial Administration Authority (CAA), also known as the Colonial Administration or Colonial Authority, is an organization under the ultimate control of the Unified Earth Government. Formed alongside the Colonial Military Authority in 2310, the CAA acted as a secondary governing body that helped the UEG regulate the various colony worlds of humanity.
Description: The hedge maze refers to the labyrinth of hedges found at the Overlook Hotel in the 1980 film version of The Shining. The 1977 novel and the 1997 miniseries versions of The Shining use moving topiary animals in place of the maze. In 2015, The Stanley Hotel, the original hotel which Stephen King used as a basis when he first wrote The Shining, installed its own hedge maze in order to pay homage to its Shining roots. Before this, it had neither a maze nor the signature topiary animals author Stephen King once wrote about.
Description: Akira Kurosawa (Japanese: 黒澤 明, Hepburn: Kurosawa Akira, March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese filmmaker and painter who directed thirty films in a career spanning over five decades. He is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in film history.
