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Blue Jackets lean on call-ups Luca Del Bel Belluz and Owen Sillinger in rout of Kraken - The Athletic • Jan. 9, 2025, 9:28 PM ET (New York Times)
Blue Jackets score 4 straight goals, defeat Kraken for 3rd straight win • Jan. 9, 2025, 3:16 PM ET (Reuters)
Ukrainian 'Kraken' Unit Takes Out Russian Commander in Zaporizhzhia • Jan. 5, 2025, 4:22 AM ET (Newsweek)

kraken, legendary sea monster of Scandinavian and Norwegian lore, perhaps imagined from sightings ofgiant squids and octopi. Sailors have discussed giant sea monsters for thousands of years, and Danish historian Erik Pontoppidan described the kraken (as well as sea serpents and mermaids) in detail in his Natural History of Norway (first published in Danish in 1752), claiming the beast was "round, flat, and full of arms" and "the largest and most surprising of all the animal creation." The sea monster is also the subject of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “The Kraken” (1871): In 2021, Seattle, Washington, gained a professional hockey ...(100 of 129 words)

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