Cato may refer to:
Cato, a Tragedy is a play written by Joseph Addison in 1712, and first performed on 14 April 1713. Based on the events of the last days of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (95–46 B.C.), a Stoic whose deeds, rhetoric and resistance to the tyranny of Julius Caesar made him an icon of republicanism, virtue, and liberty. Addison's play deals with, among other things, such themes as individual liberty versus government tyranny, Republicanism versus Monarchism, logic versus emotion, and Cato's personal struggle to hold to his beliefs in the face of death. It has a prologue written by Alexander Pope, and an epilogue by Samuel Garth.
The play was a success throughout England and her possessions in the New World, as well as Ireland. It continued to grow in popularity, especially in the American colonies, for several generations. Indeed, it was almost certainly a literary inspiration for the American Revolution, being well known to many of the Founding Fathers. In fact, George Washington had it performed for the Continental Army while they were encamped at Valley Forge.
The following is a list of characters in The Hunger Games trilogy, a series of young adult science fiction novels by Suzanne Collins that were later adapted into a series of four feature films.
Shrieker may refer to:
Shrieker is a 1998 horror movie directed by David DeCoteau.
Clark (Tanya Dempsey), a young Mathematics major at a University, thinks she's found the best deal for student housing: a group of squatters who live in an abandoned hospital secretly. The quirky residents let her into their community provided she follow the rules, including not telling anyone about her living arrangements. All seems wonderful, until she discovers that the reason that the hospital was abandoned was a series of murders in the 1940s by a strange "shrieking killer" who was never captured - and the discovery that someone who's living in the hospital is using occult means to bring back the demonic "Shrieker".
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the shrieker is a plant.
The shrieker first appeared in Dungeons & Dragons in The Strategic Review #3 (August 1975).
The shrieker appeared in first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the original Monster Manual (1977).
The shrieker appeared in the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (1977, 1981, 1983) and the Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia (1991).
The shrieker appeared in second edition under the "fungus" entry in the Monstrous Compendium Volume Two (1989), and reprinted in the Monstrous Manual (1993).
The shrieker appeared in third edition under the "fungus" entry in the Monster Manual (2000), and in the 3.5 revised Monster Manual (2003).
The shrieker resembles a large fungus. The shrieker shares a symbiotic relationship with the violet fungus in order to catch food. The shrieker emits a high-pitched wail to lure prey, and when it comes, the violet fungi attack with their tentacles.