• Thumbnail for The Octopus: A Story of California
    The Octopus: A Story of California is a 1901 novel by Frank Norris and was the first part of an uncompleted trilogy, The Epic of the Wheat. It describes...
    13 KB (1,679 words) - 19:49, 23 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frank Norris
    Frank Norris (category University of California, Berkeley alumni)
    (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901) and The Pit (1903). Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1870. His father, Benjamin, was a self-made...
    32 KB (3,811 words) - 15:21, 7 June 2024
  • glossary of chess The Octopus: A Story of California, a 1901 novel by Frank Norris The Octopus (comics), a character in The Spirit The Octopus, a title used...
    5 KB (613 words) - 21:12, 18 February 2024
  • Epic of the Wheat, from its growth in California in The Octopus, to its distribution via Chicago in his posthumously published 1903 work The Pit, to its...
    3 KB (441 words) - 00:28, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Octopus
    octopus (pl.: octopuses or octopodes) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (/ɒkˈtɒpədə/, ok-TOP-ə-də). The order consists of some...
    116 KB (12,066 words) - 10:24, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles Gilman Norris
    (introd.). The Octopus : A Story of California. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday Page & Co., 1924. Norris, Frank, and Charles Gilman Norris. The Third Circle...
    5 KB (599 words) - 20:45, 5 June 2024
  • Terrance the octopus was a pet California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides, nickname: bimac), which became popular following the unusual hatchling of 50...
    8 KB (790 words) - 13:56, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mussel Slough Tragedy
    Mussel Slough Tragedy (category History of Kings County, California)
    The Octopus: A Story of California was inspired by this incident, as was W. C. Morrow's 1882 novel Blood-Money. May Merrill Miller's novel First the Blade...
    24 KB (3,233 words) - 00:21, 30 May 2024
  • novelist, author of Raintree County Frank Norris (California, 1894): journalist and novelist, author of The Octopus: A Story of California and McTeague Tom...
    35 KB (3,546 words) - 20:16, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cephalopod attack
    all squid, octopuses, cuttlefish, and nautiluses. Some members of the group are capable of causing injury or death to humans. Tentacles are the major limbs...
    23 KB (2,994 words) - 02:03, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for American literature
    His notable works include McTeague: A Story of San Francisco (1899), The Octopus: A Story of California (1901) and The Pit (1903). Norris along with Hamlin...
    106 KB (12,498 words) - 21:09, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of rail transportation in California
    vilified the Southern Pacific for its monopolistic practices in his acclaimed novel The Octopus: A Story of California; John Moody's 1919 work The Railroad...
    71 KB (8,753 words) - 17:09, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Craig Foster (filmmaker)
    Craig Foster (filmmaker) (category Year of birth missing (living people))
    Foster is a South African documentary filmmaker, naturalist, and founder of the Sea Change Project. He is known for the 2020 film My Octopus Teacher, for...
    13 KB (839 words) - 15:56, 4 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frank Norris Cabin
    Frank Norris Cabin (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in California)
    a close friend. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1962 for its association with Norris, whose novels McTeague and The Octopus: A Story of...
    5 KB (474 words) - 13:37, 30 April 2024
  • possibilities of story," noting "Tokuda-Hall subtly introduces concepts like conflict and emotional stakes as the octopus unsuccessfully attempts to build a spaceship...
    38 KB (3,061 words) - 23:33, 24 September 2024
  • Shark Versus Giant Octopus is a 2009 American-British monster disaster film distributed by The Asylum, released on May 19, 2009, in the United States and...
    18 KB (2,009 words) - 01:31, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cthulhu
    as similar to the entirety of a gigantic octopus, with an unknown number of tentacles surrounding its supposed mouth. The short story that first mentions...
    25 KB (2,555 words) - 03:24, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Toy Story characters
    This is a list of characters from Disney/Pixar's Toy Story franchise which consists of the animated feature films Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3 and...
    113 KB (16,934 words) - 05:26, 12 October 2024
  • of Trade Building, it was the second book in what was to be the trilogy The Epic of the Wheat. The first book, The Octopus, was published in 1901. Norris...
    25 KB (3,678 words) - 13:39, 23 December 2023
  • Michael Riconosciuto (category Prisoners and detainees of the United States federal government)
    Octopus Murders, a documentary series on The Octopus Conspiracy. Merry, Bob (6 November 1960). "Quiet Tacoma Boy of 12 Shows Remarkable Knowledge of Sound"...
    14 KB (1,248 words) - 01:11, 7 May 2024
  • City from the Octopus who competes with the superhero's childhood friend Sand Saref for the Blood of Heracles in order to become immortal. The film was...
    38 KB (4,099 words) - 21:47, 18 September 2024
  • Danny Casolaro (category Unsolved deaths in the United States)
    notes suggested he was in Martinsburg to meet a source about a story he called "the Octopus". This centered on a sprawling collaboration involving an international...
    30 KB (3,757 words) - 16:11, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for St. Augustine Monster
    The St. Augustine Monster is the name given to a large carcass, originally postulated to be the remains of a gigantic octopus, that washed ashore on the...
    35 KB (3,433 words) - 11:09, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cephalopod
    as a squid, octopus, cuttlefish, or nautilus. These exclusively marine animals are characterized by bilateral body symmetry, a prominent head, and a set...
    138 KB (15,375 words) - 00:59, 13 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cephalopod size
    Cephalopods, which include squids and octopuses, vary enormously in size. The smallest are only about 1 centimetre (0.39 in) long and weigh less than...
    359 KB (29,836 words) - 08:45, 1 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aquarium of the Pacific
    the Sea Otter Habitat, home to southern sea otters; the giant Pacific octopus tank; and Diving Birds, where puffins and auklets live. Other species on...
    8 KB (577 words) - 16:38, 16 August 2024
  • Tentacles (film) (category Films shot in California)
    in a seaside resort town, a reporter discovers that a rampaging giant octopus is terrorizing the coast. While a marine biologist attempts to stop the octopus...
    15 KB (1,492 words) - 16:01, 25 September 2024
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released between 1924 and 1929. Lists of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films Eames, John Douglas. The MGM Story. Octopus Books, London. 1975...
    35 KB (39 words) - 18:31, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Universal Studios, Inc.
    Universal Studios, Inc. (category Entertainment companies based in California)
    and directors. The company's aggressive acquisition of clientele in all entertainment sectors earned MCA the nickname of "The Octopus". The company's activities...
    38 KB (3,924 words) - 04:36, 12 October 2024
  • and directors. The company's aggressive acquisition of clientele in all entertainment sectors earned MCA the nickname of "The Octopus". The company's activities...
    27 KB (2,965 words) - 07:26, 29 September 2024