To qualify for unemployment insurance in PA: â your total base period earnings must be at least $2,718. â your HQW must be at least $1,688 [which is the same as: you must qualify for the minimum weekly benefit amount (WBA) of $70 â the WBA is computed by multiplying your HQW by 1/25]
A mass stranding of Pilot Whales on the shore of Cape Cod, 1902. Cetacean stranding is a phenomenon in which cetaceans strand themselves on land, usually on a beach. Beached whales often die due to dehydration, collapsing under their own weight, or drowning when high tide covers the blowhole. Several explanations of the stranding have been proposed.
Eighteenth-century engraving showing Dutch whalers hunting bowhead whales in the Arctic. Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products like meat, oil and blubber. Its earliest forms date to at least circa 3000 BC. Various coastal communities have long histories of subsistence whaling and harvesting beached whales. Industrial whaling emerged with organized fleets in the 17th century; competitive national whaling industries in the 18th and 19th centuries; and the introduction of factory ships along with the concept of whale harvesting in the first half of the 20th century