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The Hippopotamus is a 2017 British film, adapted from Stephen Fry's 1994 novel of the same name. [1] [2] Filmed in 2015 under the direction of John Jencks, the film chronicles a failed poet who is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles. Roger Allam and John Jencks at the 2016 Dinard British Film ...
The Hippopotamus (1994) is a comic novel by Stephen Fry.Written in part as an epistolary novel, it is largely narrated by the main character Edward "Ted" Wallace.Wallace is an alcoholic washed-up poet and theatre critic who, having been fired from his newspaper job, accepts a lucrative commission from his terminally ill goddaughter to investigate rumours of miracle healings at Swafford Hall ...
This list of fictional pachyderms is a subsidiary to the List of fictional ungulates.Characters from various fictional works are organized by medium. Outside strict biological classification, [a] the term "pachyderm" is commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, tapirs, and hippopotamuses; this list also includes extinct mammals such as woolly mammoths, mastodons, etc.
The Water-Babies alludes to debates among biologists of its day, satirising what Kingsley had previously dubbed the "great hippocampus question" as the "great hippopotamus test". At various times the text refers to "Sir Roderick Murchison , Professor (Richard) Owen , Professor (Thomas Henry) Huxley , (and) Mr. Darwin", and thus they become ...
The Peter Potamus Show is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and starring Peter Potamus, a purple hippopotamus. [1]The Peter Potamus Show is divided into three segments: Peter Potamus and So-So, Breezly and Sneezly and Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey. [2]
Mathilda's own baby weighed 35 pounds when it was born on Nov. 12, 1969, becoming the first hippopotamus born at the Oklahoma City Zoo. This photo was published Aug. 5, 1970, in The Daily Oklahoman.
YouTube Kids has faced criticism from advocacy groups, particularly the Fairplay Organization, for concerns surrounding the app's use of commercial advertising, as well as algorithmic suggestions of videos that may be inappropriate for the app's target audience, as the app has been associated with a controversy surrounding disturbing or violent ...
Owen and Mzee are a hippopotamus and an Aldabra giant tortoise duo, respectively, that attracted media attention after forming an unusual bond of friendship. They live in Haller Park , Bamburi , Kenya.