Nantucket began to prosper once the sperm whale was discovered in 1712. All kinds of whales passed right by, but the sperm whale had the finest oil there was and fortunes were being made.

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(Jan. 12, 2025) The FedEx shipping center on Airport Road will permanently close March 1, the company announced in an e-mail earlier this week. FedEx is closing a number of shipping centers across the ...

De-Graft: I’m in Wales, finding out about the country’s tallest mountain - Snowdon. It takes a good few hours to walk up and down it. But thankfully there’s a train you can catch too.

On the east face of Aguja Val Biois in the Fitz Roy massif of Patagonia the Italian climbers Alessandro Baù, Matteo Della Bordella and Mirco Grasso have made the first ascent of '¿Quién sigue?' (450m, ...

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The annual No Trousers Tube ride has taken place despite plunging temperatures in the capital. Trouserless passengers were seen across the London Underground network including in Westminster ...

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CUMBERLAND – In the early hours of Jan. 18, 1893, a jovial sleigh ride through Lonsdale turned deadly, resulting in eight human deaths and two animal fatalities. The incident was tragic ...