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It is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling interests, that the Pacific Coast and, indeed, the whole of our territory west of the Rocky Mountains, should speedily be filled up by a hardy and patriotic population.
James K. Polk
Great
Country
Mountains
Speedily
Our
Indeed
Generally
Importance
Territory
West
Rocky
Rocky Mountains
Up
Whaling
Patriotic
Pacific
Interests
Should
Coast
Whole
Filled
Population
Hardy
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
Great
Knowledge
Learning
Experience
Power
Own
Imagination
Brought
Above
Great Power
Facts
Sound
His
Subject
Curious
Task
Whaling
Literature
Which
Worked
Much
Actual
The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.
Dave Barry
Threat
Real
Endangered
Whale
Whales
Whaling
Which
Many
Species
We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry... and we urge the President to take similar action against Japan and Norway as well!
Hayden Panettiere
Strong
Action
President
President Obama
Obama
Administration
Similar
Take
Taking
Well
Industry
His
Commend
Whaling
Norway
Against
Iceland
Urge
Japan
Barbaric
Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.
Laurie Anderson
Life
Will
Looking
Those
Besides
Details
Find
About
Someone
Something
Know
Huge
Moby
Moby Dick
Whaling
Wanted
Them
Whaling was the oil business of its day.
Nathaniel Philbrick
Day
Business
Whaling
Oil
We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
Nathaniel Philbrick
Father
Journal
Named
Edited
Got
Whaling
Which
Board
Boat
Keep
Copy
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
Paul Watson
Language
Economics
Only
Industry
Understands
Whaling
Japanese
The fact is, Japan's whaling is illegal, so just because there is a natural disaster in Japan is no reason for us to stop opposing their illegal activities in the Southern Ocean.
Paul Watson
Natural
Ocean
Opposing
No Reason
Fact
Disaster
Because
Southern
Whaling
Just
Stop
Just Because
Natural Disaster
Japan
Us
Reason
Illegal
Activities
Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.
Paul Watson
People
Hero
Worldwide
See
He
New
End
Whaling
Want
New Zealand
Who
Zealand
In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels.
Paul Watson
Society
Approach
District
Temporary
Court
Within
Yards
Shepherd
Whaling
December
Ordered
Japanese
Sea
Granted
Injunction
Conservation
Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.
Paul Watson
Vote
Tough
Party
Back
Way
Promised
Thousands
Had
Because
October
Labor
Australians
Get
Whaling
Urged
Japanese
Illegal
Peter
Why
Kevin
When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions.
Pierce Brosnan
Time
Negotiations
Outlaw
Failed
Global
Message
Trade
Years
End
Whales
Whaling
Send
Iceland
Sanctions
Ignore
Illegal
International
Utterly
Slaughter