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Captain Ahab

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Captain Ahab is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851), the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod. [1]

73 relations: Age of the Dragons, Ahab, Ahab (band), Ahab (comics), American Broadcasting Company, Andrew Delbanco, Barry Bostwick, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan's 115th Dream, Books of Kings, Bringing It All Back Home, Cape Horn, Capitaine Achab, Captain Hook, Character (arts), Charles M. Schulz, Charles Olson, D. H. Lawrence, Danny Glover, Demons and Wizards (band), Denis Lavant, Doubloon, F. O. Matthiessen, G. Thomas Tanselle, Gregory Peck, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Hamlet, Harpoon, Herman Melville, Hershel Parker, Honolulu, Io (mythology), J. M. Barrie, Japan, John Barrymore, John Huston, John Milton, King Lear, Merton M. Sealts Jr., Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Moby Dick (1998 miniseries), Moby Dick (2010 film), Moby Dick (2011 miniseries), Moby Dick—Rehearsed, Moby-Dick, Monomania, Nantucket, Narcissus (mythology), Oedipus, Once Upon a Time (season 7), ..., Once Upon a Time (TV series), Orson Welles, Paradise Lost, Patrick Stewart, Peanuts, Pequod (Moby-Dick), Prometheus, Protagonist, Quakers, Ray Bradbury, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sea captain, Tambourine, The Sea Beast, Tom Waits, Touched by the Crimson King, Typhoon, Venom Snake, Victor Jory, William Hurt, William Shakespeare, Zeus, Zoroastrianism. Expand index (23 more) »

Age of the Dragons

Age of the Dragons is a 2011 fantasy film starring Danny Glover and Vinnie Jones, directed by Ryan Little.

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Ahab

Ahab (Aḫabbu; Αχααβ; Achab) was the seventh king of Israel since Jeroboam I, the son and successor of Omri, and the husband of Jezebel of Sidon, according to the Hebrew Scriptures.

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Ahab (band)

Ahab is a German funeral doom metal band founded in 2004 by Midnattsol guitarists Christian Hector and Daniel Droste and former Endzeit guitarist Stephan Adolph.

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Ahab (comics)

Ahab (Dr. Roderick "Rory" Campbell), a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of Disney–ABC Television Group, a subsidiary of the Disney Media Networks division of The Walt Disney Company.

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Andrew Delbanco

Andrew H. Delbanco (born 1952) is the Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University.

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Barry Bostwick

Barry Knapp Bostwick (born February 24, 1945) is an American stage and screen actor and singer.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bob Dylan's 115th Dream

"Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his fifth album, Bringing It All Back Home.

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Books of Kings

The two Books of Kings, originally a single book, are the eleventh and twelfth books of the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament.

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Bringing It All Back Home

Bringing It All Back Home is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on March 22, 1965 by Columbia Records.

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Cape Horn

Cape Horn (Cabo de Hornos) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile, and is located on the small Hornos Island.

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Capitaine Achab

Capitaine Achab (in English, Captain Ahab) is a 2004 French short film directed by Philippe Ramos.

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Captain Hook

Captain James Hook is a fictional character, the main antagonist of J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up and its various adaptations, in which he is Peter Pan's archenemy.

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Character (arts)

A character (sometimes known as a fictional character) is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, television series, film, or video game).

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Charles M. Schulz

Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000), nicknamed Sparky, was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Peanuts (which featured the characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy, among others).

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Charles Olson

Charles Olson (27 December 1910 – 10 January 1970) was a second generation American poet who was a link between earlier figures such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets, which includes the New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat poets, and the San Francisco Renaissance.

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D. H. Lawrence

Herman Melville, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Lev Shestov, Walt Whitman | influenced.

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Danny Glover

Danny Lebern Glover (born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist.

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Demons and Wizards (band)

Demons and Wizards is a power metal band conceived as a side-project by vocalist for Blind Guardian, Hansi Kürsch, and the guitarist for Iced Earth, Jon Schaffer.

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Denis Lavant

Denis Lavant (born 17 June 1961) is a French actor known for his distinctive face and the physically demanding aspects of the roles he plays, which often involve slapstick, acrobatics or dance, as well as for his long-standing association with director Leos Carax.

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Doubloon

The doubloon (from Spanish doblón, meaning "double") was a two-escudo or 32-real gold coin; weighing 6.867 grams (0.218 troy ounces) in 1537, and 6.766 grams from 1728, of.92 fine gold (22-carat gold).

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F. O. Matthiessen

Francis Otto Matthiessen (February 19, 1902 – April 1, 1950) was an educator, scholar and literary critic influential in the fields of American literature and American studies.

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G. Thomas Tanselle

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Gregory Peck

Eldred Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor, one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s.

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame, originally called Hallmark Television Playhouse, is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City-based greeting card company.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.

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Harpoon

A harpoon is a long spear-like instrument used in fishing, whaling, sealing, and other marine hunting to catch large fish or marine mammals such as whales.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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Hershel Parker

Hershel Parker is an American professor of English and literature, noted for his research into the works of Herman Melville.

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Honolulu

Honolulu is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Hawaiokinai.

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Io (mythology)

Io (Ἰώ) was, in Greek mythology, one of the mortal lovers of Zeus.

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J. M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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John Barrymore

John Barrymore (born John Sidney Blyth; February 14 or 15, 1882 – May 29, 1942) was an American actor on stage, screen and radio.

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John Huston

John Marcellus Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American-Irish film director, screenwriter and actor.

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John Milton

John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.

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Merton M. Sealts Jr.

Merton M. Sealts Jr. (December 8, 1915 – June 4, 2000) was a scholar of American literature, focusing on Ralph Waldo Emerson and Herman Melville.

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is an action-adventure stealth game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Konami.

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Moby Dick (1998 miniseries)

Moby Dick was a television miniseries based on Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name.

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Moby Dick (2010 film)

Moby Dick (alternatively titled 2010: Moby Dick or Moby Dick: 2010) is a 2010 film adaptation of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick.

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Moby Dick (2011 miniseries)

Moby Dick is a television miniseries based on Herman Melville's 1851 novel of the same name, produced by Tele München Gruppe, with Gate Film, In association with RTH/ORF.

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Moby Dick—Rehearsed

Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a two-act drama by Orson Welles.

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Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville.

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Monomania

In 19th-century psychiatry, monomania (from Greek monos, one, and mania, meaning "madness" or "frenzy") was a form of partial insanity conceived as single pathological preoccupation in an otherwise sound mind.

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Nantucket

Nantucket is an island about by ferry south from Cape Cod, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

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Narcissus (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Narcissus (Νάρκισσος, Nárkissos) was a hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia who was known for his beauty.

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Oedipus

Oedipus (Οἰδίπους Oidípous meaning "swollen foot") was a mythical Greek king of Thebes.

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Once Upon a Time (season 7)

The seventh season of the American ABC fantasy-drama Once Upon a Time was ordered on May 11, 2017.

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Once Upon a Time (TV series)

Once Upon a Time is an American fantasy drama television series on ABC which debuted on October 23, 2011, and concluded on May 18, 2018.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.

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Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674).

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Patrick Stewart

Sir Patrick Stewart, (born 13 July 1940) is an English actor whose career has included roles on stage, television, and film in a career spanning almost six decades.

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Peanuts

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz that ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward.

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Pequod (Moby-Dick)

Pequod is a fictional 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville.

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Prometheus

In Greek mythology, Prometheus (Προμηθεύς,, meaning "forethought") is a Titan, culture hero, and trickster figure who is credited with the creation of man from clay, and who defies the gods by stealing fire and giving it to humanity, an act that enabled progress and civilization.

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Protagonist

A protagonist In modern usage, a protagonist is the main character of any story (in any medium, including prose, poetry, film, opera and so on).

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Quakers

Quakers (or Friends) are members of a historically Christian group of religious movements formally known as the Religious Society of Friends or Friends Church.

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Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920June 5, 2012) was an American author and screenwriter.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.

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Sea captain

A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner in ultimate command of the merchant vessel.

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Tambourine

The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils".

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The Sea Beast

The Sea Beast is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Millard Webb, starring John Barrymore, Dolores Costello and George O'Hara.

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Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor.

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Touched by the Crimson King

Touched by the Crimson King is the second album by the power metal supergroup Demons and Wizards, released in June 2005.

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Typhoon

A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Venom Snake

, also known as, is the protagonist in the 2015 video game Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

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Victor Jory

Victor Jory (November 23, 1902February 12, 1982) was a Canadian-born American actor of stage, film, and television.

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William Hurt

William McChord Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an American actor.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Zeus

Zeus (Ζεύς, Zeús) is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods of Mount Olympus.

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Zoroastrianism

Zoroastrianism, or more natively Mazdayasna, is one of the world's oldest extant religions, which is monotheistic in having a single creator god, has dualistic cosmology in its concept of good and evil, and has an eschatology which predicts the ultimate destruction of evil.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Ahab

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