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  2. History of whaling - Wikipedia

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    For other groups, especially the Haida, whales appear prominently as totems. Hunting of cetaceans continues by Alaska Natives (mainly beluga and narwhal, plus subsistence hunting of the bowhead whale) and to a lesser extent by the Makah . Commercial whaling in British Columbia and southeast Alaska ended in the late 1960s.

  3. History of the Kansas City metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Kansas City metropolitan area relates to the area around the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers and the modern-day city of Kansas City, Missouri. Before the arrival of European explorers, the area was inhabited at various times by peoples of the Hopewell tradition and later the Mississippian culture , as well as the ...

  4. Whaling in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Commercial whaling in the United States dates to the 17th century in New England. The industry peaked in 1846–1852, and New Bedford, Massachusetts, sent out its last whaler, the John R. Mantra, in 1927. The whaling industry was engaged with the production of three different raw materials: whale oil, spermaceti oil, and whalebone. Whale oil ...

  5. Whaling - Wikipedia

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    To the left, the black-hulled whaling ships. To the right, the red-hulled whale-watching ship. Iceland, 2011. Number of whales killed since 1900. Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution. Whaling was practiced as an ...

  6. Sperm whaling - Wikipedia

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    Historically, whaling took a heavy toll on sperm whale populations. Prior to the early 18th century, sperm whales were hunted in Japan and Indonesia. Legend has it that sometime in the early 18th century, supposed to be not far from 1712, Captain Christopher Hussey, while cruising for right whales near shore, was blown offshore by a northerly wind, where he encountered a school of sperm whales ...

  7. The islands that went from whale hunting to whale watching - AOL

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    The transition away from whaling gave birth to new industries and practices – with the impetus coming from outside. In 1990, French national Serge Viallele set up the first whale watching ...

  8. Westport, Kansas City, Missouri - Wikipedia

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    Westport is a historic neighborhood and a main entertainment district in Kansas City, Missouri.. In the early 1800s, West Port was settled by a group led by American pioneer and tribal missionary Reverend Isaac McCoy, who brought his son John Calvin McCoy as surveyor, and his son-in-law Reverend Johnston Lykins who bought the land.

  9. How whaling ventures in the 1800s shaped venture capital as ...

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    Whaling voyages were risky and expensive, and most expeditions failed. But when they succeeded, the returns were outsized and able to offset the deluge of defeats.