(A ‘Sign’....) : “Whale Of A Time In London..........”

....a “great fish” ... and a “great city”....

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Luke 11,

"29": And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

Jonah 1,

"17": Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/KjvJona.html

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Whale Of A Time In London

LONDON, Jan. 20, 2006

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/20/world/main1224172.shtml

(AP) A whale swam up the River Thames on Friday, past Parliament and Big Ben in central London.

Rows of puzzled spectators on the river banks watched the mammal navigate between boats and under bridges, while divers followed its movements, promising to help it if it became stranded.

"I saw it blow. It was a spout of water which sparkled in the air," witness Tom Howard-Vyne said. "It was an amazing sight."

It was the first time this type of whale — a northern bottlenose whale — has been sighted in the River Thames since the Natural History Museum began recording such sightings in 1913, museum zoologist Richard Sabian said.

At one point, the whale appeared to get stuck in shallow water in the Thames, and officials wearing yellow jackets could be seen running up and down the shoreline at low tide trying to push it back into deeper water.

Witnesses, including people riding in boats and walking along the banks of the river, spotted the whale near Parliament and said it appeared to be 20 feet long......