Night of the Auk is a 1956 Broadway drama in three acts written by Arch Oboler. It is a science fiction drama in blank verse about space travelers returning...
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The great auk (Pinguinus impennis), also known as the penguin or garefowl, is a species of flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century...
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Sidney Lumet (category People from the Lower East Side)
made his Broadway acting debut in the 1935 play Dead End. He went on to direct the Broadway plays Night of the Auk (1956), Caligula (1960) and Nowhere...
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Whole Shocking Story (1980) and The Night the Bridge Fell Down (1983). He returned to the stage, appearing in A Bedfull of Foreigners in Chicago in 1984...
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recording of rain so I could listen to the rain lying in bed at night to drown out those damned bagpipes." York eventually beat his addiction, and in the early...
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The little auk (Europe) or dovekie (North America) Alle alle is a small auk, the only member of the genus Alle. Alle is the Sami name of the long-tailed...
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Christopher Plummer (category Companions of the Order of Canada)
Harris (who won a Tony Award) in Jean Anouilh's The Lark. After this success, he appeared in Night of the Auk, which was not a success, He appeared as Jason...
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Arch Oboler (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from August 2019)
cosmic advertising copy. A version of Night of the Auk aired as an episode of the anthology television series Play of the Week in 1960. In August 2012, Outside...
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The Girls in 509 at IBDb Shepard, Richard F. "Night of the Auk on Play of the Week" (The New York Times, May 3, 1960) Night of the Auk at IBDb Night of...
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(1975); the satirical news drama Network (1976); the psychological drama Equus (1977); the New York City police internal-affairs drama Prince of the City...
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University of Victoria. "Twelfth Night (1957, Stratford Festival of Canada)". Shakespeare in Performance: Stage Production. University of Victoria. Retrieved...
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though some details - the comparison with herons or the voice - seem to fit the Ascension night heron better than the great auk. Bourne, W. R. P., Ashmole...
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Claude Rains (category Academics of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art)
there was one particularly long scene shot late at night where he was having a lot of trouble with the dialogue, and kept making excuses. And finally he...
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Martin E. Brooks (category Male actors from the Bronx)
Gunsmoke (“The Lure”-1967), Mission: Impossible, Night Gallery, Love, American Style, The Mod Squad, and ten appearances as Edgar Randolph in the prime-time...
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Lights Out (radio show) (section The Wyllis Cooper era)
six-episode 1949 anthology series, Arch Oboler Comedy Theater), playwriting (Night of the Auk), and fiction (House on Fire). In 1962, he produced a spoken-word album...
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Alan Hopgood (category Members of the Order of Australia)
The play was adapted for TV by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1973 and also a telemovie. In 1964, he followed with The Golden Legion of Cleaning...
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1922 The Makropulos Affair by Karel Čapek, 1922 The Bedbug by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1929 The Bathhouse by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1930 Night of the Auk by Arch...
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October Sky (book) (redirect from Auk rocket)
powder, is named Auk 1. This is an allusion to the great auk, which is a flightless seabird that became extinct in the mid-19th century. Auk 1 flies six feet...
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history of plays performed by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, as of September 2021[update]. In the early years, OSF only produced works of Shakespeare...
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phylogenetic relationships of the Night Parrot (Geopsittacus occidentalis) and the Ground Parrot (Pezoporus wallicus)" (PDF). Auk. 111 (4): 833–43. doi:10...
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the head. The god Tartaros enters Auk's mind and fixes the damage to his brain, making Auk a prophet of Tartaros in the process. Tartaros guides Auk out...
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Space". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved November 8, 2021. Oboler, Arch (1958). Night of the Auk. Horizon Press. LCCN 58-13553...
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Behavior in herons" (PDF). The Auk. 83 (3): 471–472. doi:10.2307/4083060. JSTOR 4083060. Delacour, J (1946). "Under-Wing Fishing of the black heron, Melanophoyx...
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Classification of the Living Birds of the World Based on Dna-Dna Hybridization Studies" (PDF). The Auk. 105 (3): 409–423. doi:10.1093/auk/105.3.409. JSTOR 4087435...
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Errol Fuller (redirect from The Great Auk The Extinction of the Original Penguin)
many by the great 19th-century illustrator J.G. Keulemans, a couple (great auk and Himalayan mountain quail) by Edward Lear. He also embellishes the historical...
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Plum Island (Massachusetts) (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
Plum Island Night Herons". The Auk. 32 (1): 424–441. doi:10.2307/4072584. JSTOR 4072584. Coffin, Joshua (1845). A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport...
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USS Auk (AM-38) was a Lapwing-class minesweeper acquired by the United States Navy after World War I to remove mines that had been placed during the war...
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Great potoo (category Birds of the Guiana Shield)
grandis in Surinam". Auk. 65 (1): 30–33. doi:10.2307/4080222. JSTOR 4080222. Vanderwerf, E. (1988). "Observations on the nesting of the great potoo (Nyctibius...
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Flammulated owl (category Native birds of the Western United States)
in the typical owl family (Strigidae)". The Auk. 137 (ukz070). doi:10.1093/auk/ukz070. hdl:2346/93048. Biemiller, L.(2003). Night Vigil. Chronicle of Higher...
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House sparrow (category Pages using the WikiHiero extension)
Feeding at Night in New York" (PDF). The Auk. 90 (1): 206. van der Poel, Guus (29 January 2001). "Concerns about the population decline of the House Sparrow...
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