Whale Attacks Whaler Off South America
November 20 1820

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An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)
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Created By: johnny
Created On: 2015-04-30T23:10:30Z

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