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In 1585, [[Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza|Alessandro Farnese]], 1585, and Francois, Duke of Anjou, 1582, were greeted on his ceremonial entry into the port city of [[Antwerp]] by floats including "Neptune and the Whale", indicating at least<!--in John Mack's view--> the city's dependence on the sea for its wealth.{{sfn|Mack|2013}}
In 1896, an article in ''[[The Pall Mall Gazette]]'' popularised a practice of [[alternative medicine]] that probably began in the whaling town of [[Eden, New South Wales|Eden]], [[Australia]] two or three years earlier.{{sfn|The Pall Mall Gazette|1896}} It was believed that climbing inside a whale carcass and remaining there for a few hours would
Whales continue to be prevalent in modern literature. For example, [[Herman Melville]]'s ''[[Moby Dick]]'' features a "great white whale" as the main antagonist for Ahab, who eventually is killed by it. The whale is an albino sperm whale, considered by Melville to be the largest type of whale, and is partly based on the historically attested bull whale [[Mocha Dick]]. [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''[[Just So Stories]]'' includes the story of "How the Whale got in his Throat". A whale features in the award-winning children's book ''[[The Snail and the Whale]]'' (2003) by [[Julia Donaldson]] and [[Axel Scheffler]].
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