Mitja Ribičič
Mitja Ribičič , 1919-, Yugoslav politician. He participated in the revolutionary student movement and joined the Communist party in 1941. He was a member of the partisans of Josip Broz Tito in World War II. After the war he served as a member of the executive council of Slovenia, as a deputy of the Slovenian parliament (1951-63), and as a deputy of the federal parliament (1963-67, 1969). Ribičić served as president (1969-71) of the federal executive council, a position equivalent to that of premier, and as president (1982-3) of the Yugoslav Communist party.
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Fat heads sink ships
Magazine article from: Natural History; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...quantity of higher-quality oil-- spermaceti oil-could be ladled out of the enormous...forehead. This structure, known as the spermaceti organ, has two oil-filled chambers...has room for as much as 500 gallons of spermaceti oil. (The sperm whale's spermaceti...
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Fat heads sink ships; protected by an internal "fender," a sperm whale can deliver a killing blow with its head. (Biomechanics).
Magazine article from: Natural History; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...quantity of higher-quality oil--spermaceti oil--could be ladled out of the enormous...forehead. This structure, known as the spermaceti organ, has two oil-filled chambers...has room for as much as 500 gallons of spermaceti oil. (The sperm whale's spermaceti...
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Agreement Signed Between Jojoba Association and Whale Conservation Group
Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire; 5/7/2008; 618 words
; ...whale products were banned in 1986, spermaceti from whales was widely used as an emollient...jojoba esters to be a virtual match to spermaceti. In fact, the two compounds share...high-end skin emollients. Producing spermaceti, however, requires killing whales...
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Butting whales.(journal extracts)
Magazine article from: Ecos; 1/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...sacs within their head, known as the spermaceti sac and the junk. Various biologists have argued that the spermaceti is used in whale sonar, buoyancy...indicates that the momentum of the spermaceti organ of a large mobile sperm whale...
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Recent studies by D. Mathias and co-authors add new data to acoustic research findings.
Newspaper article from: Journal of Engineering; 6/17/2009; 657 words
; ...could then be used to estimate both the spermaceti organ length and total length of the...However, acoustic estimates of spermaceti organ size, derived from standard sound...the junk is smaller than that of the spermaceti organ, in contradiction with known...
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Preparation and evaluation of waxes/fat microspheres loaded with lithium carbonate for controlled release.(Research Paper)
Magazine article from: Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...such as beeswax, cetostearyl alcohol, spermaceti and cetylalcohol microspheres using...from Micro Labs, Bangalore, India. Spermaceti was generously gifted by British Drug...waxes (beeswax, cetostearyl alcohol, spermaceti) and fat (cetylalcohol) were melted...
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MARITIME MEANDERINGS
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 6/25/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...electronics museum in Fort Monmouth and the Spermaceti Cove Station. The familiar meets the...National Recreation Area's Fort Hancock, Spermaceti Cove Station -- named after a sperm...Saving Service. The rescue station at Spermaceti Cove was built in 1894. Those rescue...
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JERSEY SHORE
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 9/11/1994; 681 words
; ...Fall Migration Bird Walk will leave the Spermaceti Cove Visitor Center. This is one of...Drill will take place on the beach at Spermaceti Cove Visitor Center, with a reenactment...place at 8 p.m. on the beach at the Spermaceti Cove Visitor Center. Folk music will...
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PRIZED CATCH HOLDS CENTER STAGE IN NEW MUSEUM
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/15/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...which includes restoration of the 1847 spermaceti candle factory as well as construction...deck overlooking Nantucket Harbor. (Spermaceti was a wax made from sperm whale oil...Sokoloff is also thrilled with the spermaceti candle factory project, which he prefers...
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Whale sperm and speed.
Magazine article from: Skiing; 9/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...It's actually a solid waxy substance, sometimes called spermaceti, derived from the oil found in a sperm whale's head cavity...the basement of a thrift shop on Maui, he discovered four spermaceti candles. Beck next organized a race series between his Lake...
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spermaceti
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology
spermaceti Highly vascular tissue, filled with a mixture of fatty esters...enlarged snout. A full-grown sperm whale may carry one tonne of spermaceti. The function of spermaceti is not known with certainty, but since its density changes...
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Candle
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...The sperm whale was also used for its spermaceti — the wax taken from the oil...fishing industry began to expand. The spermaceti candle was popular because it had no...1860s and was eventually blended with spermaceti and ceresin — a byproduct...
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sperm whale
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...a ton of fine oil, known as sperm oil , and a wax called spermaceti . Sperm whaling was the foundation of the economic expansion...cent. The industries founded on ambergris, sperm oil, and spermaceti resulted in the slaughter of sperm whales almost to extinction...
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Whaling Industry
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...and became a base for paint. By the middle of the century, spermaceti, a waxy solid that was extracted from the whale's head...sperm whale, which began around 1812. Its heads contained spermaceti and also a reservoir of oil that was known for its purity...
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candle
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...wax such as bayberry in the American colonies, candleberry in the East, and waxberry in South America were supplemented by spermaceti in the late 18th cent., by stearine c.1825, and by paraffin c.1850. Twisted strands for wicks were replaced (c...
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