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Tilikum was the largest orca in captivity. [8] He measured 22.5 feet (6.9 m) in length and weighed about 12,500 pounds (5,700 kg). [9] His pectoral fins were 7 feet (2.1 m) long, his fluke curled under, and his 6.5-foot-tall (2.0 m) dorsal fin was collapsed completely to his left side.
Blackfish is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite.It concerns Tilikum, an orca held by SeaWorld and the controversy over captive orcas.The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2013, and was picked up by Magnolia Pictures and CNN Films for wider release.
Tilikum was a bull killer whale (Orcinus orca) bought by the SeaWorld marine park in Orlando, Florida in 1992 to be part of the park's orca exhibit. [2] He was the largest orca in captivity. The other whales named as plaintiffs in the suit are Katina, who is also kept in Orlando, and Corky, Kasatka, and Ulises who are kept in SeaWorld San Diego .
According to folklore, the underwater dwelling of the Finfolk, known as Finfolkaheem (literally "Finfolk's Home") [2] is regarded as the place of origin for the Finfolk, and their ancestral home. A fantastic underwater palace with massive crystal halls, Finfolkaheem is surrounded, inside and out, by ornate gardens of multi-coloured seaweed .
Isorhythms first appear in French motets of the 13th century, such as in the Montpellier Codex. [1] Although 14th-century theorists used the words talea and color—the latter in a variety of senses related to repetition and embellishment [2] —the term isorhythm was coined in 1904 by musicologist Friedrich Ludwig, initially to describe the practice in 13th-century polyphony.
Tilikum was a 38-foot (12 m) dugout canoe that was used in an effort to circumnavigate the globe starting in 1901. The boat was a "Nootkan" ( Nuu-chah-nulth ) canoe which was already old when she was obtained by captain John Voss in April 1901.
Tilikum at SeaWorld Orlando. Camus from the episode "Moby Dopes" of the TV series The Angry Beavers [9]; Chimo; Corky (II) Ethelbert; Granny; Hoi Wai, who portrayed Neptune in the film Moon Warriors
"A Nation Once Again" is a song written in the early to mid-1840s by Thomas Osborne Davis (1814–1845). Davis was a founder of Young Ireland, an Irish movement whose aim was for Ireland to gain independence from Britain. Davis believed that songs could have a strong emotional impact on people. He wrote that "a song is worth a thousand harangues".