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...question called for a simple yes or no: Are Roman Catholics permitted to eat whale meat on fast days? No, according to the Archbishopric of Vienna; the whale is no fish but a warm-blooded mammal-hence forbidden. When the question was put to the Vatican, officials of the Holy Office deliberated long & hard. Last week came the answer: on Fridays and other abstinence days Catholics must abstain from "beasts of the fields and fowl of the air." Underwater creatures-even if they come up for air, or occasionally come ashore for a brief siesta-count as fish. Whale meat...
...Whale or a Hoax? During World War II, the monster became a military secret. It was reportedly seen by many servicemen, but the region around Loch Ness was a Commando training ground, and to quote the soldiers would have betrayed the secret of their station. Both German and Italian airmen claimed to have killed the monster, but this, said the BBC, was quite untrue. Right after the war, the witnesses testified, the monster reappeared undamaged...
...went over the theories that have tried to explain the monster as a small whale, a mass hallucination, some sort of seal, ripples on the water. Many witnesses said it looks like an overturned boat. Others saw it as a series of humps. Some saw a small head held high on a long thin neck. Most of them agreed that it leaves a churning wake and move's with great speed...
...turn of the century, the old-style whalers were foundering to their finish, to be replaced by modern floating whale-oil factories. Harry became a landsman, and took up pharmacy. He went back to the sea in two World Wars, served as skipper of troop ships and cargo ships. "But who can find romance," he sneers, "in an engine thump?"-especially while...
...rare old whale, mid storm and gale In his ocean home will be, A giant in might, where might is right, And king of the boundless...