Moby Dick whale skeleton from 1825 is saved for the nation with £500,000 national lottery funding | Mail Online

Moby Dick whale skeleton from 1825 is saved for the nation with £500,000 national lottery funding | Mail Online:


Fascinating. Just the inspiration is supposedly worth this much. Not that I had ever heard of this whale skeleton before. I even wonder why it was saved in the first place!

"The remains of the 1825 sperm whale have been immaculately preserved since inspiring author Herman Melville to write his sea-faring classic."
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According to the article, "The 58.5ft skeleton was visited by Melville in the 1800s when he came to England to research Moby Dick. 

He was so taken in by an exhibit of the whale that he included a direct reference to it in his 1851 novel."

The really interesting part are the COMMENTS on the article that say repeatedly how this is such a waste of money!!

And I just realized that this is all on a BRITISH newspaper, at a BRITISH castle, yada yada...when Moby-Dick is considered an AMERICAN novel.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2185306/Moby-Dick-whale-skeleton-1825-saved-nation-500-000-national-lottery-funding.html#ixzz233cssRxP
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