what is island of the blue dolphins based on?
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Island of the Blue Dolphins is a work of historical fiction based on the life of an American Indian woman who spent 18 years in isolation on San Nicolas Island, one of eight Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California. In the book she's named Karana.
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Island of the Blue Dolphins is a 1964 American drama film directed by James B. Clark and written by Jane Klove and Ted Sherdeman. It is based on the 1960 novel Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell.
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Pippi is an orphan – her mother is "an angel" and her sea-dog father was washed overboard and is the king of a cannibal island. Far from being tragic, this situation suits Miss Longstocking very well.
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Lord of the Flies takes place on an unnamed, uninhabited tropical island in the Pacific Ocean during a fictional world wide war around the year 1950. The boys arrive on the island when an airplane that was presumably evacuating them crashes.
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No, it is entirely fictional. It is based on the novel Q & A (novel) , in which the author married two news stories to create the plot. One about someone in the UK caught cheating on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and a story about children breaking down social/technological barriers and becoming internet-savvy.
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. It is revealed that Blue is still alive, but she and many other creatures will now face an impending danger, in the form of an erupting volcano.
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7. Susie Salmon from The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Although no one would ever wish for Susie Salmon's character to be inspired by real events, it is based on a young girl's murder in Norristown, Pennsylvania in the 1970s.
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Ron Gilbert has said that the The Secret of Monkey Island video game series took inspiration from Pirates of the Caribbean (especially upon seeing the second film), although he has said that he mainly got his inspiration from Tim Powers' book On Stranger Tides (which later inspired the fourth film in the franchise).
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Anyway, I'm talking about the big island at the bottom of the map in Odyssey. That's the island of Crete, actually, although the in-game map doesn't make that very clear. Keywords such as Minos, Knossos, Minotaur should make it obvious it's Crete, if you know a few things about Greek mythology.
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It is set in a world that is divided into four nations based on the four elements of nature: the Water Tribes - which are located at the North and South Poles - the Fire Nation, the Earth Nation, and the Air Nomads. (As the name suggests, the Air Nomads had a nomadic society.
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Skipper is the leader of the penguins and brother of Rico and Kowalski and adopted older brother of Private. He was one of the four protagonists in The Penguins of Madagascar and the protagonist-turned-deuteragonist of Penguins of Madagascar: The Movie.
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Big Fish & Begonia. A girl from a mystical realm transforms into a dolphin to explore the human world, where an encounter with a young man propels her on a fateful quest.
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It's only 15 points! It's based on the Aran Islands! And it's probably an urban myth.
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Is 'Kingdom' based on a true story? 'Kingdom' is based on the webcomic series, 'The Land of the Gods' by Kim Eun-hee and Yang Kyung-il. ... The series adds more historical authenticity to the story when at the end of the second season, the new king discovers that no one, not even he, is allowed to read the annals.
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It is based on the true story of Juana Maria, a Nicoleño Native American left alone for 18 years on San Nicolas Island during the 19th century. Island of the Blue Dolphins won the Newbery Medal in 1961. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 1964. O'Dell later wrote a sequel, Zia, published in 1976.
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Grove St may be based on the Lime Piru Bloods, that's what a lot of people say. I always saw them as Crips though and Ryder's based on Easy E who was a Crip and is voiced by MC Eiht who was a Crip too, all the more reason to believe that Grove St. is based on the Crips.
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The Greek island of Navarone does not exist and the plot is fictional; however, the story takes place within the real historical context of the Dodecanese Campaign, the Allies' campaign to capture the Italian-held Greek islands in the Aegean Sea in 1943.