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The strange craft shown above was known as the Monitor, an ironclad ship belonging to the Union forces that fought against the Confederates during the American Civil War of the nineteeth century.
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Cor, look at those staff wallahs run, Sarge! They're running about like scared rabbits just because of a couple of shell-bursts! They should be up in the line for a few days!
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Yet as Rolf let fly his arrow, he little realised that he had started the first of a chain of incidents that would plunge him into one of the most stirring adventures in Danish history
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Captain Lawrence Edward Grace Oates was known to his friends in the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons as "No Surrender" Oates, a nickname he earned by this exploits in the Boer War.
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Lofty, mein friend, ze only way from ze space craft to escape is for you to be frozen in ze block of ice! For a hundred years! Yah! You agree?
Notes:
Reader-submitted jokes from I. Campbell (Seaham, Co. Durham), D. Chisholm (Helensville, N.Zealand), D. Flindall (Romford, Essex), D. Martin (Godstone, Surrey), M. Rhodes (Dunedin, N.Zealand), Miss V. Sharp (Howden, E.Yorks), M. Smith (Nr. Ryde IOW) and P. Vass (Luton, Beds.).
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Gather round, folks -- and buy my famous elixir! It's guaranteed to cure anything from a cough to a broken leg -- and all for fifty cents a bottle!
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Get down to the Vaudevlle Theatre. Pop-singer Rocky Cave has defied crooks who threatened to wreck the show by kidnapping him. We've promised him police protection!