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The Mystic Seaport Museum's new show uses blubber hooks, whale foetuses, scrimshaw and a giant mural to recount how the whale ...
Cabin life Pioneer life in Tamaqua would’ve been simple and hard. Moser would’ve used candles for light, along with whale oil lamps or coal oil lamps. Washing was done by hand, either at the streams ...
Strong winds broke loose a Celebrity Cruises ship from its moorings in Juneau, Alaska. The captain maneuvered the ship back ...
A trio of health experts have launched defamation case against Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater and tobacco lobbyist Carrick Graham. Prof Doug Sellman of the University of Otago, Prof Boyd ...
Gran Baya, as it was called by those who founded the station in 1530s, was used as a base for coastal hunting, butchering, rendering of whale fat by heading to produce oil and storage. It became a ...