Blubber is a children's novel by Judy Blume first published in 1974. The narrator is Jill Brenner, a Pennsylvania fifth-grader who joins her classmates...
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cetaceans, pinnipeds, and sirenians. Blubber may also refer to: Blubber (novel), a 1974 children's novel by Judy Blume Blubber Bear, a fictional character in...
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Moby-Dick (redirect from Moby-Dick (novel))
jumps with mine. It will be a strange sort of book, tho', I fear; blubber is blubber you know; tho' you may get oil out of it, the poetry runs as hard...
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There, he uses the hydrogen supply from his sub to ignite the nearby whale blubber, burning the meg from the inside out. After escaping from his pod, Jonas...
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Whale oil is oil obtained from the blubber of whales. Oil from the bowhead whale was sometimes known as train-oil, which comes from the Dutch word traan...
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Margaret. (1970), Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972), Deenie (1973), and Blubber (1974). Blume's books have significantly contributed to children's and...
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him preach an admonishing sermon to the sharks gorging themselves on its blubber. The ship's blacksmith. Ahab has Perth forge a special harpoon that he...
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Thelma the Unicorn (category Animated films based on Australian novels)
as Nikki Narwhal's singing voice, Baraka May recorded an original song "Blubber Trouble" for both the film and its soundtrack. In December 2023, John Powell...
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well adapted for diving to great depths. They have a layer of fat, or blubber, under the skin to keep warm in cold water, and, other than the walrus...
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Meg Cabot (redirect from Runaway (Cabot novel))
1, 1967) is an American novelist. She has written and published over 50 novels of young adult and adult fiction and is best known for her young adult series...
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also known as sealer's finger and spekkfinger (from the Norwegian for "blubber"), is an infection that afflicts the fingers of seal hunters and other...
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whaling fleets. As with all the species targeted, the thick layer of fat (blubber) was flensed (removed from the carcass) and rendered, either on the whaling...
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recipes. One recipe, based on a formula for a chewing gum called "Blibber-Blubber", was found to be less sticky than regular chewing gum and stretched more...
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well adapted for diving to great depths. They have a layer of fat, or blubber, under the skin to keep warm in the cold water. Although baleen whales...
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cleaning his ice cave and kneading krakt (the Snow Honkies' word for whale blubber). Augustus eventually gestures to Jaynes that he wants Little Debbie cakes...
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of any animal (~1,000,000 hairs per square inch), as they do not have a blubber layer, while their oil glands help matt down their fur and keep it from...
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have a thick layer of blubber. In species that live near the poles, the blubber can be as thick as 11 inches (28 cm). This blubber can help with buoyancy...
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Solomon Gursky Was Here (category 1980s historical novel stubs)
slob and, most upsettingly, the Eskimos a bunch of whoop-em-up mystic blubber-chewers and wife-swappers. Though being Jewish apparently enables Mr. Richler...
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that act as ballast to counteract the buoyancy of their blubber. They have a thin layer of blubber and consequently are sensitive to temperature fluctuations...
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Harriet the Spy (category 1964 American novels)
said to set a bad example for children". Along with Are You There God?, Blubber, and Where the Sidewalk Ends, the book was challenged at a 1983 school-board...
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determined that sperm whales dying at sea decompose in such a way that the blubber detaches from the body, forming featureless whitish masses that sometimes...
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(butchering) began, to separate the whale into its valuable components. The blubber was rendered into whale oil using two or three try-pots set in a brick...
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Kurt Vonnegut bibliography (section Novels)
Vonnegut began his literary career with science fiction short stories and novels, but abandoned the genre to focus on political writings and painting in...
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dugong (Dugong dugon) is the sole living member. It had a thicker layer of blubber than other members of the order, an adaptation to the cold waters of its...
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e., the blubber was cut off), and the blubber boiled in cauldrons known as "try pots". Even when whales were caught far offshore, the blubber was still...
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named after the process of flensing – removing blubber from whales – which Tuite learned about from the novel Moby-Dick. The Flenser's first release was the...
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the term "drift whale" focuses on the benefits of its carcass – meat, blubber, fat, and other products – to the people who claimed it. Nowadays, when...
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detailed his father's creation of a 1960s fad pin-on button (Melville Eats Blubber). This button was cited in extortion letters written by San Francisco's...
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Whitby (section Blubber, Cook and dissolution)
used in the corsetry trade until changes in fashion made them redundant. Blubber was boiled to produce oil for use in lamps in four oil houses on the harbourside...
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from the original on March 29, 2020. Retrieved January 8, 2007. "Son of Blubber". Oregon Department of Transportation employee newspaper, TranScript. July...
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