Heflin
Proper noun
Meaning
An unincorporated community in Stafford County, Virginia, United States.
Heflin (plural Heflins)
A surname.
A city, the county seat of Cleburne County, Alabama, United States.
A village in Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Heflin (2004), 41 Melville's sources Melville's copy of The History of the Sperm Whale, 1839 In addition to his own experience on the whaling ship Acushnet, two actual events served as the genesis for Melville's tale.
Heflin (2004), 252 note 26 Hubbard's annotation appears in the chapter "The Castaway" and reveals that Pip's falling into the water was authentic; Hubbard was with him in the same boat when the incident occurred.
Heflin (2004), 189 The model for the Whaleman's Chapel of chapter 7 is the Seamen's Bethel on Johnny Cake Hill.
Heflin (2004), 26 He is identified as Stubb in an annotation in the book's copy of crew member Henry Hubbard, who, like Melville, had joined the voyage as a green hand.
Heflin denied the accusations, saying they were “manufactured” by an individual who had a grudge against him.
Listed in "Interim Glossary, Aero-Space Terms," as compiled by Woodford Heflin and published in February 1958 by the Air University of the US Air Force.