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Look at the people in the painting. They gaze into the distance, their backs to the viewer.

Otis finds a piece of driftwood on Crane Beach reminiscent of a whale.

i. Italian broadside (engraving), on the stranding of a whale near Ancona, Italy (25 February 1602).

This broadside was possibly sold by the owners of a travelling exhibit featuring the skeleton of this whale. Barthelmess Whaling Collection, No.…

e. 1598+ Anonymous after Glotzius. The Stranded Whale On the Beach at Zandvoort.

f. 1598+ Matham Jacob after Glotzius. Baltimore Museum of Art.

g. Jan Saenredam, Stranded Whale near Beverwijk, 19 December, 1601. 1602. Engraving. New Bedford…

Whale being flensed on the Faroe Islands

Described as "A little book, that more closely explains a map of the Nordic cold, beyond the Germanic sea located country, which presents its extremely peculiar, priorly known neither to Greeks or…

OED: gam

Perhaps < English regional gam, variant of game n. (see gam at game n. β. forms). Borrowing < a cognate of game n. in one of the modern Scandinavian languages is perhaps also possible (see forms at game n.), although there is no evidence…

Albrecht Dürer, who longed to see a whale, noted that on November 24, 1520:

"At Zierikee in Zeeland a whale has been stranded by a high tide and a gale of wind. It is much more than one hundred fathoms long and no man living in Zeeland has seen…