“By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale p...” — Nathaniel Philbrick Quote

By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.

In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.

What's been largely forgotten is that Washington was highly passionate and aggressive, and it was only after losing Philadelphia to the British after a string of disastrous battlefield performances that he finally resigned himself to the more conservative approach with which he has since become associated.

Right whales - so named because they were 'the right whale to kill' - grazed the waters off Nantucket as if they were seagoing cattle, straining the nutrient-rich surface of the ocean through the bushy plates of baleen in their perpetually grinning mouths.

It is true that a population which is growing older needs to save, but the question is in what form the savings are made.

When the Khmer Rouge reached Phnom Penh, the first thing they did was to evacuate the population. Then they took over. The point of a revolution is to bring justice to the people, so even if you don't have proof of sabotage, you manufacture it.

I support population control. I think USA should do the same.

The general population isn't interested in the nitty-gritty of cars.

I come from Israel, where most of the population is dark-haired, dark-skinned, dark-eyed.