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  2. Eschrichtiidae - Wikipedia

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    Eschrichtiidae or the gray whales is a family of baleen whale (Parvorder Mysticeti) with a single extant species, the gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), as well as four described fossil genera: Archaeschrichtius (), Glaucobalaena and Eschrichtioides from Italy, [1] [2] and Gricetoides from the Pliocene of North Carolina. [3]

  3. Fastitocalon (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Fastitocalon, the central character in the poem, is the last of the mighty turtle-fish. This poem is well known to the Hobbits. It tells of how Fastitocalon's huge size, a "whale-island", [5] enticed sailors to land on its back. After the sailors lit a fire upon Fastitocalon, it dived underwater, causing the sailors to drown.

  4. List of portmanteaus - Wikipedia

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    Funimation, from fun and animation; Garmin, from Gary Burrell and Min Kao; Googleplex, from Google and complex (meaning a complex of buildings) [b] Groupon, from group and coupon; Ideanomics, from idea and economics; Imagineering, from Imagine (or Imagination) and Engineering; LATAM, from Lan Airlines and TAM Airlines

  5. List of kennings - Wikipedia

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    poetry Grímnir's lip-streams Grímnir is one of the names of Odin. N: Þórsdrápa: raven swan of blood Ravens ate the dead at battlefields. N: the sea whale-road hron-rād: N,OE: Beowulf 10: "In the end, each clan on the outlying coasts beyond the whale-road had to yield to him and begin to pay tribute" the sea sail road seġl-rād: OE ...

  6. List of fictional cetaceans - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of fictional cetaceans, including dolphins and whales, that appear in video games, film, television, animation, comics and literature. The list is limited to notable, named characters. This list is a subsidiary to the List of fictional animals article.

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  8. Military helicopter makes emergency landing on California ...

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    Flames could be seen where a military helicopter made an emergency landing at Camp Pendleton on Friday, causing police to warn drivers of potential traffic delays along Interstate 5. All four crew ...

  9. Ekphrasis - Wikipedia

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    In the Republic, Book X, Plato discusses forms by using real things, such as a bed, for example, and calls each way a bed has been made a "bedness". He commences with the original form of a bed, one of a variety of ways a bed may have been constructed by a craftsman and compares that form with an ideal form of a bed, of a perfect archetype or image in the form of which beds ought to be made ...