In 2007, whalers in Alaska killed a whale that had a Victorian-era explosive harpoon embedded in its neck. Here are the ...

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The three young men, being all whalemen and used to similar accidents, succeeded very soon in cutting away the mast, rolling the ballast out, getting the ladies onto the bottom of the boat . . . Two ...