This Melville character's artificial leg is carved from the jawbone of a sperm whale
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Jeopary Questions page 1588 - TO PARTY! - TriviaBistro.com  ... vase Scarlett threw when this character she loved spurned her at Twelve Oaks .... Melville character's artificial leg is carved from the jawbone of a sperm whale.
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Scrimshaw - Wikipedia  Scrimshaw is the name given to scrollwork, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory. Typically it refers to the handiwork created by whalers made from the byproducts of harvesting marine mammals. It is most commonly made out of the bones and teeth of sperm whales, the .... Sperm whale jawbone and teeth in the collection of the Scrimshaw Museum...
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"Ahab's Leg"  Up to this point we can see that Melville has written two books shuffled together: one is a ... The "object" is, of course, the Sperm Whale species; the "account" is, of course, the ... Get a new leg made out of Stubb's Sperm Whale's jawbone!
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The Real Story Behind "In the Heart of the Sea" | History | Smithsonian  In 1820, an angry sperm whale sank the whaleship Essex, leaving its ..... By the time Melville visited Nantucket, George Pollard had become the town's night...
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[1843] a Dead Whale or a Stove Boat - Scribd  Melville's original Ahab was such a demonic character (which was faithfully reproduced in .... leg and a barbaric-looking artificial leg carved from the jawbone of a whale. .... SPERM WHALE STR 55 CON 45 SIZ 45 DEX 3 APP 5 HP 45 Move 40...
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Sperm whale - New World Encyclopedia  Oct 16, 2015 ... Sperm whale or cachalot is the common name for a large toothed ... The brain of the sperm whale is the largest and heaviest known of any...
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Standing Hippopotamus - Metropolitan Museum of Art  This well-formed statuette of a hippopotamus (popularly called "William") ... Beneath the blue-green glaze, the body was painted with the outlines of river plants, ... The huge creatures were a hazard for small fishing boats and other rivercraft. ... Three of its legs have been restored because they were purposely broken to...
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J! Archive - Show #3563, aired 2000-02-16  Man loses leg; loses mind; loses battle with large cetacean ... The secret art of this man is seen here: (illustration of "The Cat in the Hat")...
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The Advocate -- Moby-Dick - Upliterate  Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is a novel by Herman Melville considered an ... Although the novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the .... Good again; but then all confess that somehow whaling is not respectable.
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville: Text, Ebook  Moby-Dick , written in 1851, recounts the adventures of the narrator Ishmael as he sails on the whaling ship Pequod under the command of Captain Ahab.
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Film transcript - Moby Dick (1) - Logo for English from Linguetic  Based on the 1851 book Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville, this ... Whenever I get grim and spleenful, whenever I feel like knocking people's hats off in the street, whenever it's a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I know that it's high time to get to sea again. ... ISHMAEL GOES IN AND WALKS UP TO THE BAR.
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Quotes by Herman Melville - Goodreads  I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. ... about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself ... and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own. .... Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation...
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Sperm whale - Wikipedia  The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), or cachalot, is the largest of the toothed whales ... The head of the whale contains a liquid wax called spermaceti, from which the ... Its synonymous specific name catodon means "down-tooth", from the Greek .... Sound waves that strike the whale from different directions will not be...
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How realistic are the vengeful whales of Moby-Dick and In the ...  Dec 15, 2015 ... Mess with a sperm whale, get an 80-ton torpedoone that will sink a ship and, like a ... The story eventually helped inspire Herman Melville's 1851 novel, .... New clues from the sea-bottom near Isla Mocha hint that there may indeed ... of course, the 19th-century commodity boom in whale products: The oil...
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Moby-Dick - Wikipedia  Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by American writer Herman Melville, published in 1851 ... The product of a year and a half of writing, the book draws on Melville's ... Some of the scornful British reviews were either reprinted or quoted in .... nor coffin can be Ahab's, that before he dies, Ahab must see two hearses  one...
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Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 17751851). The Whale ...  Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 17751851). The Whale Ship, ca. 1845. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection,...
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Pequod (Moby-Dick) - Wikipedia  The Pequod is a fictional 19th-century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville. The Pequod and her crew, commanded by Captain Ahab, are central to the...
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Characters Moby Dick  ... and X Files American Literature Chasing Creatures of the Unknown Moby Dick and ... themes that Melville expresses through this novel Moby Dick Symbolism Wiki ... NY Daily News Title Moby Dick Wrestling Herman Melville s epic novel Moby ... Herman Melville s famous 1851 novel Biblical and Mythological Allusions in...
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Moby Dick (whale) - Wikipedia  Moby Dick is the fictional white whale for which Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is titled. Contents. [hide]. 1 Description; 2 Real-life models...
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Quote from Moby-Dick by Herman Melville - Glose  Chief among these motives was the overwhelming idea of the great whale himself.  Highlighted Highlight Annotate Share. This quote hasn't been annotated so...
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SparkNotes: Moby-Dick: Plot Overview  A short summary of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. ... He announces his desire to pursue and kill Moby Dick, the legendary great white whale who took his leg,...