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" The Cats of Ulthar " is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in June 1920.
Considered one of the best short stories of Lovecraft's early period, aspects of the The Cats of Ulthar would be referenced again in the author's works The Other Gods and The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.
Lovecraft outlined the plot to his friend Keiner in May 1920 and wrote The Cats of Ulthar on June 15, 1920, five months after completing his previous tale, The Terrible Old Man.
Dunsany's influence is evident on the surface of the text as well: wanderers, similar to the ones portrayed in The Cats of Ulthar, appear in Dunsany's earlier tale Idle Days on the Yann.
Prior to The Cats of Ulthar, Lovecraft had penned several tales in the style of Lord Dunsany, including The White Ship, The Street, The Doom that Came to Sarnath, The Terrible Old Man, and The Tree.
The Cats of Ulthar was a personal favorite of Lovecraft's, who was an ardent cat lover.
Literary critic Darrell Schweitzer, however, comments that The Cats of Ulthar resembles Dunsany in " mood and execution " only and that " has no obvious parallels in any Dunsany story ".
Atal also appears as a priest in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath – written in 1927 but not published until 1943 – when protagonist Randolph Carter visits the city 300 years after the events in The Cats of Ulthar, when the town is populated mainly by felines.
The text of The Cats of Ulthar, like many of Lovecraft's works, has fallen into public domain and can be accessed in several compilations of the author's work as well as on the Internet.
* " The Cats of Ulthar " ( 1920 )
* In Alan Moore's " The Courtyard ", Randolph Carter is the name of a female singer who is the head of a band called the Ulthar Cats.
* The priest Atal appears as a boy and youth in two earlier tales, " The Cats of Ulthar " ( 1920 ) and " The Other Gods " ( 1933 ), respectively, which fully describe events alluded to in The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath.

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III, in 1994, his final film project was the animated movie Cats Don't Dance, released in 1997 and dedicated to him, on which Kelly acted as uncredited choreographic consultant.
The club's nickname, the " Cats ", was first used in 1923 after a run of losses prompted a local cartoonist to suggest that the club needed a black cat to bring it good luck.
Geelong was nicknamed the ' Cats ' in 1923 after a run of losses prompted a local cartoonist to suggest that the club needed a black cat to bring it good luck.
In 1974, Moon played drums on Harry Nilsson's album " Pussy Cats ", which was produced by John Lennon.
Also, Cahit Berkay, who was a member of Selçuk Alagöz Band, and Haluk Kunt, who was a member of Vahşi Kediler ( Wild Cats ), both joined the band.
Contenders for the title of " first rock and roll record " include Goree Carter's " Rock Awhile " ( 1949 ); Jimmy Preston's " Rock the Joint " ( 1949 ), which was later covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1952 ; and " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( actually an alias for Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm ), recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in March 1951.
In 1954 the English composer Alan Rawsthorne set six of the poems in a work for speaker and orchestra entitled Practical Cats, which was recorded soon after, with the actor Robert Donat as the speaker.
The last series of new shorts so far ended production in 2004, the most recently theatrically released Looney Tunes was Pullet Surprise in 1997, shown theatrically with Cats Don't Dance.
There are currently six in the works that began with the first short, Coyote Falls, that preceded the film Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, which was released on July 30, 2010.
Steve was seen again in a one-shot special issue, Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem, in which the mutant superhero Shadowcat attends a Cats Laughing concert in Edinburgh and mentions previously having seen the band at Windycon.
Known as the Catmobile, the car was the band vehicle for Cats Laughing.
His most notable roles included The Hooded Claw in The Perils of Penelope Pitstop ( though he was uncredited ), Mildew Wolf from It's the Wolf ( a segment of Cattanooga Cats ), and Pertwee from Where's Huddles ?.
It was followed in 1983 by two more successful songs: the synthesiser-based " The Walk " ( number 12 ), and " The Love Cats ", which became the band's first British Top 10 hit, reaching number seven.
The earliest mention of an ALC / domestic cross was in 1889, when Harrison Weir wrote in Our Cats and All About Them:
In the United Kingdom, the tuxedo cat is sometimes known as the " Jellicle cat ", after the fictional tribe of black and white cats described by T. S. Eliot in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, which was first published in 1939.
The first military aerobatic team to use smoke at will during displays was Fleet Air Arm 702 Squadron " The Black Cats " at the Farnborough Air show in
He and his wife, Pamela Mason, co-authored the book The Cats in Our Lives, which was published in 1949.
Much of the Wackyland sequence was adapted and reused by Clampett for inclusion in his 1943 short Tin Pan Alley Cats.
** The long pan through Wackyland was used from Tin Pan Alley Cats.
In 1981, Dench was due to play the title role of Grizabella in the original production of Cats, but was forced to pull out due to a torn Achilles tendon, leaving Elaine Paige to play the role.
* The actor Drew Varley, probably best known as Mungojerrie in Cats, was born here.
which was a combination of live recordings with hotel tapes and studio stopovers, but was not released by Word as with " songs like " Three Million Gods ," and " Cats Of The Coliseum ," discussing the Hindu religion and the early martyrdom of Christians in Rome, this album was not acceptable because it was considered too " avant garde ".

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His first recording, " Rocket 88 " with the Kings of Rhythm credited as " Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ", in 1951, is considered a possible contender for " first rock and roll song ".
Phillips recorded what some — notably music historian Peter Guralnick — consider the first rock and roll record: " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats, a band led by 19-year-old Ike Turner, who also wrote the song.
* June 14-Bill Haley and His Saddlemen record their version of " Rocket 88 ", combining the rhythm and blues arrangement of the original version ( by Jackie Brentson and the Delta Cats ) with country music trappings, considered by many music historians to be the first true rock and roll record.
In 2008, for the first time in 18 years, the Stray Cats visited Australia and New Zealand which included several consecutive sold out shows of their Farewell ( Australia ) Tour.
Wanda Gág's Millions of Cats was published in 1928 and became the first picture book to receive a Newbery Medal runner-up award.
Later that year, the No. 10 hit " Rain On The Roof " and the No. 8 hit " Nashville Cats " completed the group's first seven consecutive Hot 100 hits to reach that chart's top 10.
In the fifth round, the Black Cats defeated Arsenal 2 – 0 to reach the quarter finals for the first time since 2004.
A very successful director of musicals, in the non-subsidised sector, Nunn directed the musical Cats ( 1981 ), formerly the longest running musical in Broadway's history, and the first English production of Les Misérables in 1985, also with John Caird, which has been running continuously in London since opening.
The Cats also made the playoffs in 2003, his first season as manager.
Stan Hough was named the Cats ' manager on Dec. 6, 2005, taking over for Wayne Terwilliger, who remained with the club as Hough's first base coach in 2006.
In 2006, the Cats won their second straight title and the first title in the American Association.
In 1995, their first season, the Battle Cats won the first half division championship with a 36 – 32 record, while their second half record of 39 – 31 left them one game behind the Fort Wayne Wizards.
The 1996 season was less successful, as the Battle Cats finished in fourth place in the five-team division in both the first and second halves, with a 31 – 38 in the first half and 29 – 40 in the second half.
In 1997 the Battle Cats went 38 – 31 in the first half, but that was only good for second place, 11 games behind West Michigan.
In the first half of the 1998 season, the Battle Cats went 36 – 36 and finished in fourth place in the Eastern Division.

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