’ f Only two of the thirty or so varieties ‘ of whales are likely to survive the modj" ern methods of whale-hunting. The Greenland or white whale is now , protected throughout the world, and .(the lesser Rorqual, which seldom exjceeds thirty-two feet in length, is too j small to be worth killing. j Pipes, playing cards, and cocktail glasses appear in a rare old print, dat- , ing back to 1690. and depicting a “mod- ! ern woman” of that period, j All living must have had four grandparents. Those four must have had j eight parents. Going back nineteen generations, we get 1,035,776 ancestors.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 June 1941, Page 6
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