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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. Farewell to Tarwathie - Wikipedia

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    Farewell to Tarwathie (Fareweel Tae Tarwathie, Roud number 2562) is a folk song written by George Scroggie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland around 1850. [1] The piece is part of the collection The Peasant's Lyre, preserved in the Library of Congress, published in 1857 in Aberdeen, in which the poem Farewell to Tarwathie appears with 16 stanzas.

  5. 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.

  6. Wyn Cooper - Wikipedia

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    Crow's producer Bill Bottrell discovered Cooper's poetry book The Country of Here Below in Cliff's Books, a Pasadena, California used bookstore. Bottrell adapted Fun into the lyrics for her song when Crow could not come up with usable lyrics, earning Cooper considerable royalties, and helping to publicise his book, originally published in a run ...

  7. Cetology of Moby-Dick - Wikipedia

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    Right whale (several species of the genus Eubalaena of the family Balaenidae), also known simply as the Whale, the Greenland Whale, the Black Whale, the Great Whale. Melville claims this whale was the first to be regularly hunted by human beings and is famously known for providing baleen, which was also known as "whalebone" at the time.

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  9. Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor - Wikipedia

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    It is a comical retelling of the Jonah tale, with a Newfoundland whaler as protagonist, but in this instance the whale gets his comeuppance. [ 1 ] It may have been adapted from a New York City music-hall song "Every Inch a Sailor", which itself was a burlesque of " HMS Pinafore ".