http://tracyleesmith.com/blog/2007/06/13/a-very-old-whale-finally-succumbs/ Once more unto the breach... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:37:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://tracyleesmith.com/blog/2007/06/13/a-very-old-whale-finally-succumbs/#comment-23 thumanic Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:55:29 +0000 http://tracyleesmith.net/blog/2007/06/13/a-very-old-whale-finally-succumbs/#comment-23 So the whale survived a harpoon shot in around 1890 only to be killed by another one about 100 years later. It just seems incredibly wrong for it to die that way. Do Alaskans really have to kill whales to survive, or is it mostly convenience? So the whale survived a harpoon shot in around 1890 only to be killed by another one about 100 years later. It just seems incredibly wrong for it to die that way. Do Alaskans really have to kill whales to survive, or is it mostly convenience?

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