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unusual facts about The Whale


Ferdinand Kingsley

In 2013, Kingsley played the part of murdered Jewish anarchist Joshua Bloom in the BBC period crime drama Ripper Street, and filmed prominent roles in Agatha Christie's Poirot: Elephants Can Remember, the BBC's feature film The Whale, and Universal Pictures' 2014 feature Dracula Untold.


Owen Coffin

Owen Coffin is played by Jassa Ahluwalia in the upcoming BBC film of the true story of the sinking of the whaleship Essex, entitled The Whale.


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Broken Trail

After passing through Cody, Wyoming, Prent decides to head north through the Big Horn Mountains and over a steep pass known as the Whale's Back in order to avoid Ed and his gang.

Burning Sensations

The group is best known for its MTV hit "Belly of the Whale", the music for which blends a rather unique fusion of rock and calypso styles, and for covering the Jonathan Richman song "Pablo Picasso", which was included in both the 1984 film and soundtrack of director Alex Cox's Repo Man starring Harry Dean Stanton and Emilio Estevez.

Burt Dow, Deep-water Man

In the story, loosely based on the encounter of the whale in the Book of Jonah, Burt and the Giggling Gull, are fishing in Burt's only working boat, the Tidely-Idley, when a storm blows up.

Cornelius Mathews

American literary historian Perry Miller, writing in The Raven and the Whale, suggested that Herman Melville was influenced by Mathew's Behemoth when writing Moby-Dick.

Friend of a friend

The acronym FOAF was coined by Rodney Dale and used in his 1978 book The Tumour in the Whale: A Collection of Modern Myths.

Hermanus

Zakes Mda wrote 2005 the novel The Whale Caller (ISBN 0-312-42382-9) in which the Whale Crier of Hermanus is the main character, a man who gets enthralled by a Southern Right whale he names Sharisha.

Hockey Weekend Across America

Included in the same set of festivities were two other outdoor game, one involving college hockey teams and another an alumni game featuring former members of the Boston Bruins and Hartford Whalers, the namesakes of the two teams participating in the Whale Bowl.

Hubbs' beaked whale

The whale lives in the North Pacific, in the east it is limited to Japan and in the west it ranges from British Columbia to California.

Lake Winnepesaukah

Several kiddie rides from the now-defunct Miracle Strip Amusement Park have been relocated to Lake Winnespesaukah, including The Bumble Bees, The Whale, and The Wave Swinger.

Little Irvy

The whale was purchased in 1967 for $6,000.00 US from the Del-Monte Fishing Company, which had captured the whale off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, with plans to sell the carcass for dog food.

Martha Production

In 2008 the company produced the film "Inside of Me", a short film financed by the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, and in 2009, they produced "In the Belly of the Whale", a short film directed by Giuseppe Petitto, original screenplay by Martha Capello and Marisa Gentile, financed by the Lazio Region, recognised as the National Cultural MiBac and won the "Premio Corzo Lazio" for best screenplay, in competition at the Giffoni Film Festival, Genoa, Bari.

No One's First and You're Next

Later that year, Bent Image Lab director Nando Costa created a video for "The Whale Song", utilizing stop-motion animation.

People of the Whale

People of the Whale is a 2008 novel by Linda Hogan about a Native American man named Thomas Just who is forced to come to terms with his experiences in Vietnam during the war.

RV Song of the Whale

Song of the Whale is operated by Marine Conservation Research Ltd of Kelvedon, UK for the registered owner IFAW Commerce Ltd, and is based at Ipswich.

Steinar Bastesen

In 1998, Bastesen made a famous statement saying that the whale Keiko, known from the Free Willy films, should be killed and the meat sent to Africa as foreign aid.

Tay Whale

The Regius professor of Anatomy at Aberdeen, John Struthers dissected the whale, much of the time in public with a military band playing in the background, organized by Woods.

The Federalists

The Federalists provided the main support for Or, The Whale at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and opened for Santana at the Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord, CA.

Titanocetus

The whale was then described in 1900 by the italian paleontologist Giovanni Capellini, who later (1901) named it Aulocetus sammarinensis.

Umkomaas

Umkomaas' official animal is the Whale, representations of which can be found throughout the town,in everything from colourful murals to the primary school's uniform.