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Moby Dick (other)
''Moby-Dick'' is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. "Moby Dick" may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional entities * Moby Dick (whale), the white whale in the novel Films * ''Moby Dick'' (1930 film), a film starring John Barrymore * ''Moby Dick'' (1956 film), a film by John Huston starring Gregory Peck * ''Moby Dick'' (unfinished film), an unfinished 1971 film by Orson Welles * ''Moby Dick'' (1978 film), a one-man version * ''Moby Dick'' (2010 film), a modern-day military version * ''Moby Dick'' (2011 film), a South Korean film directed by Park In-je Television * ''Moby Dick'' (1998 miniseries), a miniseries starring Patrick Stewart and Gregory Peck * ''Moby Dick'' (2011 miniseries), a miniseries by Mike Barker, starring William Hurt and Ethan Hawke *''Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor ''Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor'' is an American Saturday-morning animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that ran on CBS from September 9, 1967 to January ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moby-Dick
''Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'' is an 1851 Epic (genre), epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael (Moby-Dick), Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Captain Ahab, Ahab, captain of the whaler, whaling ship ''Pequod (Moby-Dick), Pequod'', for vengeance against Moby Dick (whale), Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance (literature), American Renaissance, ''Moby-Dick'' was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a Great American Novel was established only in the 20th century, after the 1919 centennial of its author's birth. William Faulkner said he wished he had written the book himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world" and "the greatest book of the sea ever written". It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moby Dick (musical)
''Moby Dick'' is a musical with a book by Robert Longden, and music and lyrics by Longden and Hereward Kaye, first staged in 1990. The plot follows the anarchic and nubile girls of St. Godley's Academy for Young Ladies who, determined to save the institution from bankruptcy, decide to stage Herman Melville's classic 1851 novel in the school's swimming pool. The musical is a mixture of high camp, music hall-style smut, and wild anachronism overflowing with double entendres; the lead role of headmistress/Captain Ahab is portrayed by a man in drag. Originally produced as ''Moby Dick: A Whale of a Tale'', and alternatively known as ''Moby Dick! The Musical'', or ''Moby!'', the show has proven to be a popular choice with regional theatre groups. Since 2003 a more Americanized version deleted the unfamiliar British references and played down many of the burlesque aspects. Initial productions Producer Cameron Mackintosh, having become involved with the restoration of Oxford's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mo B
Mo or MO may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Mo, a girl in the '' Horrible Histories'' TV series * Mo, also known as Mortimer, in the novel '' Inkheart'' by Cornelia Funke * Mo, in the webcomic '' Jesus and Mo'' * Mo, the main character in the '' Mo's Mischief'' children's book series * Mo, an ophthalmosaurus from '' The Land Before Time'' franchise * MO (Maintenance Operator), a robot in the Filmation series '' Young Sentinels'' * Mo, a main character in '' Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist'' * M-O (Microbe Obliterator), a robot in the film ''WALL-E'' * Mo the clown, a character played by Roy Rene, 20th-century Australian stage comedian * Mo Effanga, in the BBC medical drama series ''Holby City'' * Mo Harris, in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Little Mo Mitchell, in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' Films * "Mo" (魔 demon), original title of '' The Boxer's Omen'', a 1983 Hong Kong film * ''Mo'' (2010 film), a television movie about British politici ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adaptations Of Moby-Dick
''Moby-Dick'' is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville that describes the voyage of the whaleship ''Pequod'', led by Captain Ahab, who leads his crew on a hunt for the whale Moby Dick. There have been a number of adaptations of ''Moby-Dick'' in various media. Film * A 1926 silent film entitled '' The Sea Beast'', starring John Barrymore as a heroic Ahab with a fiancée and an evil brother, loosely based on the novel. Remade as ''Moby Dick'' in 1930, a version in which Ahab kills the whale and returns home to the woman he loves (played by Joan Bennett). * ''Moby Dick'', a 1956 film directed by John Huston and starring Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab, with screenplay by Ray Bradbury. * The 1961 Akutagawa Prize winning Japanese novel ''The Whale God'', which was later made into a tokusatsu film by Daiei Film, featured battles between an unusually large and powerful North Pacific right whale and whalers who seeks revenge on the whale. Its plot was presumably inspired by ''Moby-Dick''. * ''Mob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porsche 935/78
The Porsche 935 is a race car that was developed and manufactured by German automaker Porsche. Introduced in 1976 as the factory racing version of the 911 (930) Turbo and prepared for FIA-Group 5 rules, it was an evolution of the Carrera RSR 2.1 turbo prototype, the second place overall finisher in the 1974 24 Hours of Le Mans. Beginning with the 1977 season, Porsche offered the 935 to customers entering the World Championship for Makes, in the IMSA GT Championship and in the German Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft (DRM). The 935 went on to win the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans overall, and other major endurance races, including Sebring, Daytona, and the 1,000 km Nürburgring. Of the 370 races it was entered, it won 123. Usually, no other make could challenge the 935, as other manufacturers did not supply customer cars as Porsche did. Each race, at the time, typically featured at least five 935s. The 935 used a 3.3L ''Type 935'' twin-turbocharged flat-six engine which used a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moby Dick (restaurant)
Moby Dick House of Kabob (Persian: موبی دیک: خانه کباب) is a Persian kabob restaurant chain in the Washington metropolitan area. It is named after a restaurant in Tehran which was right near the American Embassy during the Pahlavi's time; that restaurant was closed after the Iranian revolution in 1979. The restaurant continues across from what is now the Artists' Forum in the city, becoming a popular place for many. The first Moby Dick restaurant opened in Bethesda, Maryland in 1989. History Founder Mike Daryoush emigrated to the United States from Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ... in 1975. He opened a small sandwich shop in 1987 in Bethesda, Maryland, serving a few Middle Eastern dishes. He changed to a Persian menu and added a clay oven in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moby Dick Mountain
Moby Dick Mountain is a summit in British Columbia, Canada. Description Moby Dick Mountain is located west of Pequod Mountain in the Battle Range of the Selkirk Mountains. The remote peak is set approximately south of Glacier National Park. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains north to Battle Brook which is a tributary of the Incomappleux River, and south into Houston Creek which is a tributary of the Duncan River. Moby Dick Mountain is notable for its steep rise above local terrain and for its absolute elevation. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,450 meters (4,757 ft) in on the north aspect and 1,450 meters (4,921 ft) above Houston Creek in on the south side. History The landform is named after Moby Dick, the whale in Herman Melville's novel ''Moby-Dick'' which was published in 1851. The name was applied by mountaineer Douglas Anger and submitted in 1960 by Sam Silverstein of the Alpine Club of Canada. Anger imagined t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moby Dick (Alaska)
Moby Dick is a elevation glaciated summit located at the head of the Trident Glacier in the eastern Alaska Range, in Alaska, United States. It is the fourth-highest peak in the Hayes Range, a subset of the Alaska Range. This remote peak is situated southeast of Mount Hayes, and southeast of Fairbanks. Mount Shand, the nearest higher neighbor, is set to the east. The first ascent of this unofficially named mountain was made in 1964 by Christopher Goetze, Lydia Goetze, Tom Knott, and Larry Muir. Climate Based on the Köppen climate classification, Moby Dick is located in a subarctic climate zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. This climate supports the Trident, Susitna, and Black Rapids Glaciers surrounding this peak. Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C. The months May through June offer the most favorable weather for climbing or viewing. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sirenoscincus Mobydick
''Voeltzkowia mobydick'' is a species of mermaid skink, a lizard in the family Scincidae. In 2012, the species was first described in a paper by French herpetologists Aurélien Miralles, Miguel Vences, and their colleagues. (''Sirenoscincus mobydick'', new species). Description Mermaid skinks have only forelimbs, no hind limbs, hence the common name "mermaid skink". This species's forelimbs are shaped like flippers (''Voeltzkowia yamagishii'' has claws). The scientific name ''Voeltzkowia mobydick'' consists of the pre-existing parent genus ''Voeltzkowia'', and the name of the white sperm whale from the 1851 novel ''Moby-Dick'' by Herman Melville. The species name is appropriate because whales have no hind limbs, only forelimbs shaped like flippers, and so does this species of skink. It also lacks pigmentation as Moby Dick (whale), Moby Dick did. The type series consists of two specimens that measured in snout–vent length. The body is about wide at midbody. In preserved speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moby Dick (Rhine)
Moby Dick (''Willi de Waal'' in the Netherlands) was a beluga, or white whale, that caused a sensation in 1966 along the Lower Rhine and then in all of Germany and the Netherlands. It was named after the whale in the 1851 novel ''Moby-Dick'' by Herman Melville. On May 18, 1966, a few Rhine skippers near Duisburg reported a white whale in the Rhine to the water police. Officials reacted with incredulity and made the mariners take a blood alcohol test, which came up negative. In fact, there really was a , white whale swimming in the Rhine from the ocean and thousands of kilometers from the natural beluga habitat in arctic waters. Moby Dick, it was later surmised, had likely been captured on the East Coast of Canada and put on a freighter and sent to a zoo in England. Shortly before landing, a storm in the English channel threw the container with Moby overboard who disappeared, before reappearing months later far up the Rhine river. Wolfgang Gewalt, the director of the Duisburg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moby-Dick (opera)
''Moby-Dick'' is an American opera in two acts, with music by Jake Heggie and libretto by Gene Scheer, adapted from Herman Melville's 1851 novel ''Moby-Dick''. The opera received its premiere at Dallas Opera in Dallas, Texas, on 30 April 2010. Heggie dedicated the opera to Stephen Sondheim. Composition history In 2005, Dallas Opera commissioned an opera from Heggie, intended for the company's inaugural season in the Winspear Opera House in 2010. In consultation with Terrence McNally, Heggie suggested ''Moby-Dick'' as the subject. Subsequently, Dallas Opera shared this commission jointly with San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, State Opera of South Australia and Calgary Opera. McNally subsequently withdrew from work on the opera because of health issues. Heggie continued work on the opera in collaboration with Scheer and stage director Leonard Foglia. Scheer estimated that approximately 50% of his libretto used Melville's words directly. Heggie specifically wrote the role of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moby Dick (Serbian Band)
Moby Dick is a notable Serbian pop-dance band. It is named for the well-known novel ''Moby-Dick'' by Herman Melville. Moby Dick was formed in 1992, initially as a six-member band. They released their first album ''Kreni'' in 1993. In 1994, Ana Stanić joined the band as female vocal. The band was transformed to a duet as the other members from the initial lineup left. The second album, ''Moby Dick'' was released that year and was a great success, selling more than 200.000 copies. It included hits like ''Nema nas vise'', ''Brate prijatelju'', ''Zar nije te stid'', ''Bacila si čini'' and controversial ''Kralj Kokaina'' which was banned from some TV and radio stations. The band toured extensively during this period, which culminated with a sell-out concert in Sava Center in Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
