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    ISBN 978-0771065767 A Whale for the Killing (1972, revised 2012) ISBN 978-1-77100-028-4 Tundra (book) (1973) ISBN 0-7710-6627-9 Wake of the Great Sealers (with David Blackwood)...
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  • David Blackwood (category Members of the Order of Canada)
    in The Art of David Blackwood, published by William Gough in 1988. It was also the subject of three other key publications: The Wake of the Great Sealers...
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  • to the new and changing environment over the next 500 years. At that time the first European sealers and whalers arrived, followed by the founding of the...
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    made on the mutiny. The first was a 1916 silent Australian film, subsequently lost. The second, also from Australia, titled In the Wake of the Bounty (1933)...
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    called the Grand Bois ("Great Forest"), which covered the lowlands of the island until forest fires set by sealers cleared much of it in 1825. Only eight...
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    Britain. The explorers Dumont D'Urville and James Clark Ross visited in 1839 and in 1840 respectively. Whalers and sealers set up temporary bases, the islands...
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    Gregory Peck (category Burials at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels)
    at the end of the 1940s, his performances including The Paradine Case (1947) and The Great Sinner (1948). Peck reached global recognition in the 1950s...
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  • of warship. wash The waves created by a moving vessel. Not to be confused with wake. washstrake An additional strake fastened above the level of the gunwale...
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  • noted. The date of the coffee grinder and the type of film used for the home movie is derived from History.com, accessed April 19, 2010. The same site...
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  • gang of eleven sealers encamped on their land. After spears had been thrown, the sealers opened fire on them with muskets, killing nine, with the remainder...
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    HMS Pandora (1779) (category Shipwrecks of the Torres Strait)
    stories in the history of seafaring. Pandora was partially successful by capturing 14 of the mutineers, but wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef on the return...
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  • the domestic airline traffic from Christchurch to Wellington and Auckland. Thousands of people took up this offer to relocate temporarily in the wake...
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    HMS Bounty (category History of the Pitcairn Islands)
    Arrived Portsmouth Harbour In the immediate wake of the mutiny, all but four of the loyal crew joined Bligh in the long boat for the voyage to Timor, and eventually...
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  • This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some...
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    Maritime fur trade (category History of the Pacific Northwest)
    on the east coast. [...] Nor were sealer communities isolated fringe settlements, as is often assumed. Before the 1820s the sealers were not at the periphery...
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  • the original book in wake of Magatano-Orochi's crisis. She is portrayed by Chisako Hara (原 知佐子, Hara Chisako), the wife of late Akio Jissoji, one of Ultraman's...
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    went onto the ice to document the sealing and noted they were soon confronted by a group of sealers who verbally abused and punched the group of crew, as...
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  • Waitangi was signed to give Māori equal rights. Pākehā (European) whalers, sealers and traders established liaisons with Māori women, resulting in mixed race...
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    Pit stop (redirect from The Pit Lane)
    very angry, he walked away uninjured. As this incident took place in the wake of the aforementioned First Union 400, this incident prompted CART to mandate...
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    the coast of Chile, captain Amasa Delano of the American sealer and merchant ship Bachelor's Delight visits the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship apparently...
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  • given to the air by the engine is transferred to the aircraft as thrust work with the remaining part being kinetic energy waste in the wake (propulsive...
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    Mission. Chandler spared no expense in the rescue effort and had purchased one of the finest sealers afloat, the USS Bear, from Scottish owner Walter Grieve...
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  • marooned by sealers. These eight sealers led by a certain Bailey, had also killed another man and abducted women. Randall, another sealer from Tasmania...
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    April 1914 (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1922 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Hundreds of anxious spectators gathered in St. John's, Newfoundland harbor to meet the SS Bellaventure as it arrived with the frozen bodies of 69 sealers who...
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    First Russian Antarctic Expedition (category Russia and the Antarctic)
    editing. On the contrary, Palmer's original journal (and others' sealers) is stored at the Library of Congress. In later American descriptions of the second...
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    It was the organization's last meeting. In the wake of the Springfield Race Riot of 1908, a major race riot in Springfield, Illinois, a number of prominent...
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    Farthest South (category Explorers of Antarctica)
    mapped, the lure for mercantile adventurers was the great fertile continent of "Terra Australis" which, according to myth, lay hidden in the south. Belief...
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    Motorcycle safety (category Pages using the Graph extension)
    2004 Gabler, Hampton Clay, The risk of fatality in motorcycle crashes with roadside barriers (Adobe PDF), Virginia Tech Wake Forest University, retrieved...
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    Fridtjof Nansen (category Recipients of the Order of the Crown (Italy))
    Armenia and the Near East (1923) wherein he describes the plight of the Armenians in the wake of losing its independence to the Soviet Union. The book was...
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  • Gunditjmara (category Aboriginal peoples of Victoria (state))
    back as 1810, when whalers and sealers began to use Portland as a base area for their operations. Contact exposed the local people to epidemics from new...
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