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.

In 1931, Universal chief Carl Laemmle, Jr. offered Whale his choice of any property the studio owned.

When the railroad went bankrupt after the devastating Labor Day Hurricane, the property was sold by the receivership to a local for $ 800 ( having no interest in the property, the local was offered a parcel stretching to Whale Harbor, about 0. 2 miles to the west, for the same $ 800 ).

Expressionist influence is also in evidence in Frankenstein, drawn in part from the work of Paul Wegener and his films The Golem ( 1915 ) and The Golem: How He Came into the World ( 1920 ) along with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1920 ) from Robert Wiene, which Whale reportedly screened repeatedly while preparing to shoot Frankenstein.

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.

Most of the land area belongs to Kodiak Island, but a thin strip of coastal area on the western part of the Alaska Peninsula and other nearby islands ( Afognak Island, Shuyak Island, Marmot Island, Raspberry Island, Little Raspberry Island, Whale Island, Spruce Island, Woody Island, Uganik Island, Sitkalidak Island, Tugidak Island, Sitkinak Island, Chirikof Island, and the Semidi Islands ) are also in the borough.

* The Whale Rider — a book ( by Witi Ihimaera ) and film inspired in part by the story of Paikea and Ruatapu.

During 1867 a viaduct was constructed from the north wall of the dockyard to the south-east corner of Big Whale Island which allowed spoil to be moved from dredging the docks ( part of the expansion of HMNB Portsmouth ), reclaiming the land between Big Whale Island and Little Whale Island, forming the basis of the island as it is today.

At 10pm on 19 October 2006, Farage took part in a three-hour live interview and phone-in with James Whale on national radio station talkSPORT.

There are three main faults that dictate the geography of Yell-the first is the Bluemull Fault, which separates Yell from Unst by creating the Bluemull Sound ; the second is the Arisdale Fault which forms the northern part of Whale Firth, and extends south to Arisdale, and out of Hamnavoe ; and the third is the Nesting Fault, which more or less creates Yell Sound, and divides Yell from Mainland Shetland.

Whale Cove remains an unnavigable bay in a dangerous part of the Oregon coast: mariners are advised to stay at least 600 yards offshore for the distance one mile north of Whale Cove to one mile south of Whale Cove.

Mitchell then took the title role in Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda, followed by a part with Josh Hartnett in Mozart and the Whale and then starred in the movie adaptation of the videogame Silent Hill, which co-starred Laurie Holden and Sean Bean.

After the purges in the early 1890s, one part of the family decided to go to America, while others stayed behind in Russia to continue the exporting of Whale Oil.

* The Whale Hall: skeletons of whales, dolphins, walruses, sirenians, seals ... A small part of the hall is devoted to the whales ' role in the economy and their sacrifices to it.

As Willie the Whale, Eddy sang all three male voices in the first part of the Sextet from Donizetti's opera, Lucia di Lammermoor.

He was part of the team involved in planning and designing of the " artificial " Mulberry harbours, having been responsible for the development of the four-legged floating pontoons and the floating roadways that became the Spud pier heads and the Whale piers of these two harbours.

Shoefield brought Jordan ( Katie Price ) to the Adult part of the channel along with Jo Guest, Catherine McQueen, Mike Reid, Roy " Chubby " Brown, Garry Bushell and James Whale.

Dale " The Whale "' s reasons for sharing part of the truth with Monk also become clear.

Dorudon was featured in the episode Whale Killer in the BBC's documentary Walking with Beasts, as well as in the second part of its follow-up, Sea Monsters.

The concert was recorded at Toronto, Ontario's Bathurst Street Theatre in 1992, as part of their promotional tour for the Whale Music album.

" Karl Williams of the film database Allmovie wrote that " by the 1960s attained a grail-like status among fans of director James Whale ... The Old Dark House came to be reconsidered a cult gem, part of the renewal of interest in Whale's talents many years after his creative peak ".

Whale was known for his use of camera movement.

* Ezra Stiles College, Morse College, and Ingalls Rink ( affectionately known as " The Whale ") at Yale University

Numerous whales visit the sea coast, including the critically endangered Western Pacific Gray Whale, for which the coast of Sakhalin is the only known feeding ground.

Other endangered whale species known to occur in this area are the North Pacific Right Whale, the Bowhead Whale and the Beluga Whale.

In the early-to-mid 17th century a whale had found itself stranded in the Mohawk River on an island just below the Cohoes Falls, it was impossible for the Dutch settlers of the area to remove the carcass and as it rotted the river became slick for three weeks from the rotting carcass and one commented that " the air was infected with its stench ... perceptible for two miles to leeward "; around 1646 this island came to be known as Whale Island due to this occurrence.

William Joseph " Billy " Baldwin ( born February 21, 1963 ) is an American actor, producer, and writer, known for his starring roles in such films as Flatliners ( 1990 ), Backdraft ( 1991 ), Sliver ( 1993 ), Fair Game ( 1995 ), Virus ( 1999 ), Double Bang ( 2001 ), as Johnny 13 in Danny Phantom ( 2004 – 2007 ), Art Heist ( 2004 ), The Squid and the Whale ( 2005 ), as himself in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, as Senator Patrick Darling in the TV drama Dirty Sexy Money ( 2007 – 2009 ) on ABC, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths ( 2010 ), and now Baldwin is currently a regular guest on Gossip Girl as William van der Woodsen and Parenthood as Gordon Flint.

* 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 waters surrounding Virginia are also a known migration corridor for the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale: Pregnant females must pass through this area around December to reach their birthing grounds down the coast in Georgia and Florida.

Redden currently serves as the captain of the Connecticut Whale, formerly known as the Hartford Wolf Pack.

NGC 4631 ( also known as the Whale Galaxy or Caldwell 32 ) is an edge-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici.

* Whale songs-Two groups of whales, the Humpback Whale and the subspecies of Blue Whale found in the Indian Ocean, are known to produce the repetitious sounds at varying frequencies known as whale song.

Permanent settlement began in 1836 when squatters arrived in the area known as Whale Head.

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.

At first, they only hunted the whale they called sarda, or the North Atlantic Right Whale, using watchtowers ( known as vigias ) to look for their distinctive twin vapour spouts.

* Beaver tails, also known as Elephant Ears, Moose Antlers or Whale Tails

White Whale Records was an American record label, founded in 1965 by Ted Feigin and Lee Lassiff in Los Angeles, California, and probably best known as the record label of The Turtles.

When White Whale signed the Turtles, they were known as " The Crossfires "; a surf music band looking to change their style, as surf music was fading.

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

The Victory Bridge ( New Jersey ) | Victory Bridge carries Route 35 over the Raritan River. Route 35 crosses the Whale Creek into Old Bridge Township, Middlesex County, where it continues northwest through businesses and residences in Laurence Harbor and Cliffwood Beach, both sections of Old Bridge Township.

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

Cetacean species native to the coast include the Orca, Gray Whale, Harbour Porpoise, Dall's Porpoise, Pacific White-sided Dolphin and Minke Whale.

Jonah Cast Forth By The Whale, by Gustave Doré.

It is often now called the Whale, though it is most strongly associated with Cetus the sea-monster, who was slain by Perseus as he saved the princess Andromeda from Poseidon's wrath.

* 1950 – Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd on Whale Wars.

Finback Whale ( Balaeonoptera physalus )-POSSIBLE ; Brydes Whale ( Balaeonoptera edeni )-POSSIBLE ; Blue Whale ( Balaeonoptera musculus )-POSSIBLE ; Humpback Whale ( Megaptera novaeangliae )-POSSIBLE.

* Pygmy Killer Whale, Feresa attenuata Wolphin Kawili ' Kai at the Sea Life Park in Hawaii.

The Universal horror that comes closest to noir, both in story and sensibility, however, is The Invisible Man ( 1933 ), directed by Englishman James Whale and photographed by American Arthur Edeson.

Whale, dolphin and porpoise were considered fish, so during Lent, the salted meats of these sea mammals were eaten.

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

The IWC Bowhead, Right and Gray Whale subcommittee in 2011 reiterated the conservation risk to western gray whales is large because of the small size of the population and the potential anthropogenic impacts.

Gray Whale migrations off of the Pacific Coast were observed, initially, by Marineland of the Pacific in Palos Verdes, California.

The Gray Whale Census, an official Gray Whale migration census that has been recording data on the migration of the Pacific Gray Whale has been keeping track of the population of the Pacific Gray Whale since 1985.

This census is the longest running census of the Pacific Gray Whale.

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.

Moby-Dick ; or, The Whale has become Melville's most famous work and is often considered one of the greatest literary works of all time.

But under this definition Whale meat and suppon ( terrapin ) would not be regarded as taboo four-legged meat.