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  • Thumbnail for Ventriloquial oriole
    The ventriloquial oriole (Oriolus consobrinus) is a species of bird in the family Oriolidae. It is found in Southeast Asia through Borneo and on the islands...
    3 KB (339 words) - 07:37, 23 August 2024
  • "Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster" is a sketch story by Australian writer Henry Lawson. The sketch is one of many to include Jack Mitchell the swagman...
    4 KB (681 words) - 04:47, 12 January 2024
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    The males' calls, however, are powerful: ringing and metallic, with a ventriloquial quality, so loud as to be heard from a long distance in heavy scrub...
    3 KB (296 words) - 18:58, 29 October 2024
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    classic dummies used by ventriloquists (the technical name for which is ventriloquial figure) vary in size anywhere from twelve inches tall to human-size...
    22 KB (2,290 words) - 04:34, 10 November 2024
  • Eleutherodactylus dolomedes (common names: Hispaniolan ventriloquial frog, Hedge's [sic] robber frog, Hedges' robber frog) is a species of frog in the...
    5 KB (400 words) - 04:55, 17 November 2021
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    Orisha) visiting the earth on a purpose, the Eyo masquerade speaks in a ventriloquial voice, suggestive of its otherworldliness; and when greeted, it replies:...
    169 KB (18,214 words) - 11:10, 12 November 2024
  • Brains, a 1990 novel by Harry Harrison and Robert Sheckley "Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster", an 1898 sketch story by Australian writer Henry Lawson "The...
    4 KB (524 words) - 03:41, 9 October 2024
  • sylph Venezuelan troupial Venezuelan tyrannulet Venezuelan wood quail Ventriloquial oriole Veracruz wren Veraguan mango Verdin Verditer flycatcher Vermiculated...
    276 KB (29,489 words) - 23:54, 20 October 2024
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    through Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Bangka, Java and southwestern Borneo Ventriloquial oriole Oriolus consobrinus Borneo and the Philippines Philippine oriole...
    13 KB (619 words) - 05:58, 14 November 2024
  • non-speaker were a ventriloquist throwing his or her voice. Another ventriloquial allusion (probably quoting Arthur Worsley) was made when Eric said,...
    42 KB (5,997 words) - 14:59, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Violet sabrewing
    "cheep tsew cheep tik-tik tsew cheep ..., high-pitched, piercing and ventriloquial" and as "varied, loud, sharp chipping and warbles, often punctuated...
    8 KB (893 words) - 04:30, 22 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dupont's lark
    upperparts. Its song is a repeated thin, melancholic whistling phrase, very ventriloquial (difficult to locate) and a nasal whistle given mainly at dawn and dusk...
    6 KB (621 words) - 02:16, 17 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry Lawson
    of a Plain" "'Some Day'" "Shooting The Moon" "Our Pipes" "Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster" "Enter Mitchell" "Mitchell Doesn't Believe in the Sack" "Another...
    36 KB (3,788 words) - 05:07, 13 November 2024
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    oriole (Oriolus flavocinctus) Dark-throated oriole (Oriolus xanthonotus) Ventriloquial oriole (Oriolus consobrinus) Philippine oriole (Oriolus steerii) White-lored...
    9 KB (655 words) - 15:10, 15 November 2024
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    Vivino's piano playing. One of Vivino's puppet sidekicks – actually a ventriloquial figure – was named Oogie. His on-air interaction with off-camera staff...
    16 KB (2,039 words) - 19:41, 29 August 2024
  • "conversed" in a different voice with each one. In 1886 he presented a "Ventriloquial Parliament", with dolls caricaturing leading politicians of the time...
    2 KB (245 words) - 06:15, 15 March 2023
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    kenh'." It also makes a nasal "keer", "mewing 'wih' or 'kwee' in...ventriloquial series", and a "repeated 'kee-yik kee-yik'." Its drumming is "rapid...
    10 KB (1,248 words) - 09:17, 5 October 2023
  • special included both ventriloquial singing with her four main puppets (Petunia, Oscar, Edna and Katie) and non-ventriloquial singing. Duets were performed...
    50 KB (4,120 words) - 04:56, 18 November 2024
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    Farfel the Dog for ventriloquist Jimmy Nelson. Some members of the ventriloquial community maintain that Marshall carved Charlie McCarthy for the famous...
    6 KB (576 words) - 20:19, 20 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for European nightjar
    bird is difficult to spot in low light conditions, and the song has a ventriloquial quality as the singer turns his head. The song is easily audible at...
    42 KB (4,929 words) - 11:37, 21 July 2024
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