Refine Search  Americans should not seek 'cheap oil'  ...can no
more drill our way to cheap gas prices than Ahab would have been
able to harpoon the 19th century towards endless whale oil. Oil
is finite. No drilling rig, no matter how "environmentally
sound" can change that geological fact. The world's... Right
whales returning to Florida waters  ...stripped off them. Whales
have enormous amounts of fat and that was used for lamp oil, the
major source of lighting. Whale oil was eventually replaced by
kerosene, distilled from petroleum which was discovered in the
late 19th century. By the... Excavation of old lighthouse begins
...watchtower. Then, when Florida became part of the United
States, the tower became a lighthouse, illuminated by 10 big
whale oil lamps in front of a large mirror. Kathy Fleming,
executive director of the St. Augustine Lighthouse Museum, said
it... World's oldest man, WWI veteran dies  ...England on
motorized kites made with wood, linen and wire. They piled on
clothes and smeared their