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Cindy’s 5th grade class was assigned to present an object lesson. She brought her goldfish to school and made her ...

Hitan" in Arabic, holds more than 400 primitive whale skeletons that offer a snapshot of the evolution of these creatures ...

ALTON - Greater Glory Christian Academy aims to get kids excited about God.The Academy is currently in its fourth week of ...

The whale swallowed Jonah,The New Yorker, April 26, 1941 P. 45 The whale swallowed Jonah, View Article ...

“Jonah, spat out by the whale, depicted in an extraordinary foreshortening, his torso partially turned to the right, his arms folded, his head upturned, his mouth wide open, about to scream” (Émile ...

It’s unclear if the whale was trying to teach Simancas any sort of lesson, but in the bible, the whale was definitely trying to tell Jonah something. God tells Jonah to let the city of Nineveh ...

In 2006 Mark Worden wrote to the T&A recalling the whale: “I have a postcard album and in it is a postcard bought from this travelling show when it came to Keighley in, I believe, 1971.

Rush Limbaugh and Jonah-Before-the-Whale Rush Limbaugh makes remarks at the National Association of Broadcasters in Philadelphia, Pa., October 2, 2003.(William Thomas Cain/Getty Images) ...

We know that a whale’s stomach can hold at least the equivalent of a man in terms of weight and volume. Just consider the recent story of a dead sperm whale in Scotland whose stomach contained a 220lb ...