James Whale lived as an openly homosexual man throughout his career in the British theatre and in Hollywood, something that was virtually unheard of in the 1920s and 1930s.

* A Bowhead Whale killed in a hunt was found to be approximately 211 years old ( possibly up to 245 years old ), the longest lived mammal known.

The couple lived in a house that was once owned by director James Whale and traveled together during Hudson's film shoots or Robinson's music tours.

1870 UK reprint, Mocha Dick: Or The White Whale of the Pacific by Jeremiah N. Reynolds, Cameron and Ferguson, London, Glasgow. Mocha Dick was a notorious male sperm whale that lived in the Pacific Ocean in the early 19th century, usually encountered in the waters near the island of Mocha, off southern Chile.

Saving the Gray Whale, is based on the three years he lived in the gray whale lagoons of Baja California.

Specimens include a male Indian circus elephant skeleton, a 5 metre Reticulated Python skeleton containing 400 vertebrae, a fossil of the largest spider to ever have lived, and a False Killer Whale skeleton.

She and Hugo lived together in what is known as the Whale Bowl.

Whale traveled to Hollywood in 1929 and signed a contract with Paramount Pictures.

" While there have been suggestions that Whale's career was terminated because of homophobia, and Whale was supposedly dubbed " The Queen of Hollywood ", Harrington states that " nobody made a thing out of it as far as I could perceive ".

Clive first worked with James Whale in the Savoy Theatre production of Journey's End and subsequently joined the British community in Hollywood in the 1930s, repeating his stage role in the 1930 film version of Journey's End, which was directed by Whale.

Manners was serendipitously " discovered " by the film director James Whale at a Hollywood party, and within a few years, he was a popular leading man, playing opposite such up and coming actresses as Katharine Hepburn, Barbara Stanwyck, Gloria Stuart, Myrna Loy, Loretta Young, and Ann Dvorak, and he was paired several times with Helen Chandler.

After Whale had moved to Hollywood and found success with Journey's End and Frankenstein, the director was commissioned to direct the screen adaptation of J. B. Priestley's Benighted as The Old Dark House, starring Charles Laughton in his first American film together with Boris Karloff and Raymond Massey.

Whale immediately cast Thesiger in the film as Horace Femm, launching his Hollywood career.

Events included a Hartford Whalers Alumni vs. Boston Bruins Alumni game, a double-header featuring both UConn men's and women's hockey teams, a Hockey Legends team faced off against the Mystery, Alaska Hollywood team, and the second edition of the American Hockey League Outdoor Classic between the host Connecticut Whale and the Providence Bruins.

With the success of Whale Rider under her belt, Caro was chosen to direct her first Hollywood film, North Country ( 2005 ), starring Charlize Theron.

Whale was hunted by American Indians off the Northwest coast, especially by the Makah, and used for their meat and oil.

He returned to Wallington, and in the autumn of 1939 he wrote material for his first collection of essays, Inside the Whale.

* Society for Marine Mammalogy-Gray Whale Species Account

Frankenstein was the first in a series which lasted for many years, although Karloff only featured as the monster in Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 ), again directed by Whale, and Son of Frankenstein ( 1939 ).

Including Journey's End ( 1930 ), Whale directed a dozen films for Universal Studios between 1930 and 1936, developing a style characterized by the influence of German Expressionism and a highly mobile camera.

Whale continued to direct for the stage and also rediscovered his love for painting and travel.

Thought not physically strong enough to follow his brothers into the local heavy industries, Whale started work as a cobbler, reclaiming the nails he recovered from replaced soles and selling them for scrap for extra money.

Whale used his additional income to pay for evening classes at the Dudley School of Arts and Crafts.

Considered because of his age a good candidate for officer training, Whale joined the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps in October 1915 and was stationed in Bristol.

In 1928 Whale was offered the opportunity to direct two private performances of R. C. Sherriff's then-unknown play Journey's End for the Incorporated Stage Society, a theatre society that mounted private Sunday performances of plays.

Whale next went to work for independent film producer and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes, who planned to turn the previously silent Hughes production Hell's Angels ( 1930 ) into a talkie.

Whale, wary of doing two horror films in a row and concerned that directing Dracula's Daughter could interfere with his plans for the remake of Show Boat, instead convinced Laemmle to buy the rights to a novel called The Hangover Murders.

Whale gathered as many of those as he could who had been involved in one production or another of the musical, including Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, Charles Winninger, and, as Magnolia, Irene Dunne, who believed that Whale was the wrong director for the piece.

With the outbreak of World War II, Whale volunteered his services to make a training film for the United States Army.

Foegel moved in with Whale in early 1953 and remained there for several months before returning to France.

Whale was known for his use of camera movement.

McKellen was nominated for an Academy Award for his portrayal of Whale.

A memorial statue was erected for Whale in 2002 on the grounds of a new multiplex cinema in his home town of Dudley.

Whale oil was a historically important lubricant, with some uses up to the latter part of the 20th century as a friction modifier additive for automatic transmission fluid.

Whale oil is little used today and modern commercial whaling is done for food.

Jervis Bay is also known for Whale Watching, placed such that the migration, both north and south can be observed as they pass the entrance to the Bay, frequently entering the bay to rest.

Relations between the label and the band were not always smooth, with White Whale pressuring the band for " more hits ", then for singers Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman to fire the rest of the group, and work instead with hired musicians, to save costs.

Melville left little direct information about the events of this 18-month cruise, although his whaling romance, Moby-Dick ; or, The Whale, probably gives many pictures of life on board the Acushnet.

All artists do work that comes out of the unconscious mind and later on you can analyze it and say the symbolism may mean something, but artists don ’ t think that way and I would bet my life that James Whale would never have had such concepts in mind.

A few miles from Conanicut Island, keeper Walter Eberle lost his life when Whale Rock lighthouse was swept off its base and into the raging waves.

Common sightings by St. Andrews tour companies tend to be the Northern Humpback Whale, Fin Whale and Minke Whale, along with sightings of other marine life such as the common seal.

* Pheena the Fin Whale – a life sized model of a Fin whale residing on the LHS plaza.

Whale surfacing behaviour is often unique among marine mammals and marine life in general.

In 1993, Rockman created Still Life, a still life depiction of a pile of fish and marine specimens, evoking reference to 1935 horror James Whale film Bride of Frankenstein and films by Luis Buñuel.

However, Maria lost her life and Graham lost an arm after encountering the legendary Great White Galactic Whale.

In the liner notes, Gerrard describes the experience of recording music for Whale Rider as " one of the most intimate of my artistic life ".

This island is surrounded by clear waters known as ' Dharavandhoo Thila ' & Hanifaru Bay ; which are famous amongst divers around the world, for it is a sanctuary for a number of marine life, including Mantas Whale Sharks.