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See media help. " Greenland Whale Fisheries " (also called "The Greenland Whale Fishery", "Sperm Whale Fishery", or "The Ballad of the Greenland Whalers") is a traditional sea song, originating in the West Indies but known all over the Atlantic ocean. [1] In most of the versions collected from oral sources, the song opens up giving a date for ...
The Piano Lesson is a 1987 play by American playwright August Wilson. It is the fourth play in Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle. Wilson began writing this play by playing with the various answers regarding the possibility of "acquir [ing] a sense of self-worth by denying one's past". [1] The Piano Lesson received the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Century Cycle by August Wilson – that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience. The play is set in a recording studio in 1920s Chicago, and deals with issues of race, art, religion, and the historic exploitation of black recording artists by white producers.
August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". [1] He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle (or The Century Cycle), which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the ...
The Cetomimiformes or whalefishes are an order of small, deep-sea ray-finned fish. Some authorities [1] include the whalefishes as part of the order Stephanoberyciformes, within the superfamily Cetomimoidea. Their sister order, the Beryciformes, includes the flashlight fish and squirrelfish. Within this group are five families and approximately ...
Cetomimidae is a family of small, deep-sea cetomimiform fish. They are among the most deep-living fish known, with some species recorded at depths in excess of 3,500 m (11,500 ft). Females are known as flabby whalefishes, Males are known as bignose fishes, while juveniles are known as tapetails and were formerly thought to be in a separate ...
By And By, Hoʻi Mai ʻOe, translated as By and By Thou Wilt Return, [2] is a famous song composed by Queen Liliʻuokalani. [9] Aia i Mauna Kilohana. There at Mount Kilohana. O aʻu lehua ʻula i ka wao. My red lehua of the forest. Na maka ʻohe kiʻi i ka wai. Sharp eyes fetch the water. ʻAhaʻi ka ʻiʻini a ka manaʻo.
A man's salvation and a quest for redemption for a family and a people. Genre. Drama. Setting. The Hill District, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1985. King Hedley II is a play by American playwright August Wilson, the ninth in his ten-part series, The Pittsburgh Cycle. The play ran on Broadway in 2001 and was revived Off-Broadway in 2007.