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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
  • Thumbnail for Ventriloquism
    classic dummies used by ventriloquists (the technical name for which is ventriloquial figure) vary in size anywhere from twelve inches tall to human-size...
    21 KB (2,264 words) - 13:38, 15 August 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
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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) - 00:31, 4 January 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 (515 words) - 03:28, 26 August 2024
  • special included both ventriloquial singing with her four main puppets (Petunia, Oscar, Edna and Katie) and non-ventriloquial singing. Duets were performed...
    50 KB (4,137 words) - 14:35, 24 July 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
  • "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
  • Vent Haven Museum is an American museum of ventriloquial figures and memorabilia. It claims to be the only such museum in the world. The museum is located...
    5 KB (413 words) - 11:36, 28 September 2023
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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:...
    172 KB (18,198 words) - 02:27, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Old World oriole
    oriole (Oriolus flavocinctus) Dark-throated oriole (Oriolus xanthonotus) Ventriloquial oriole (Oriolus consobrinus) Philippine oriole (Oriolus steerii) White-lored...
    9 KB (654 words) - 02:39, 11 August 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) - 19:37, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fred Russell (ventriloquist)
    multi-figure act which, at the time, was the accepted format for a ventriloquial presentation. Russell was born in London, and began his career as a...
    3 KB (416 words) - 15:02, 22 April 2024
  • non-speaker were a ventriloquist throwing his or her voice. Another ventriloquial allusion (probably quoting Arthur Worsley) was made when Eric said,...
    41 KB (5,917 words) - 14:39, 6 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
  • Thumbnail for Mobbing (animal behavior)
    doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.09.027. S2CID 53153442. Brown, C. H. (1982). "Ventriloquial and locatable vocalizations in birds". Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie...
    23 KB (2,689 words) - 18:40, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fruit dove
    that share generally green colouration with crimson caps or crowns, ventriloquial cooing or hooting, and a distinct texture of the breast feathers. Recent...
    16 KB (1,393 words) - 04:03, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Floyd Vivino
    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
  • 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) - 06:48, 12 August 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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