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"HELL OR MELBOURNE"
EXPLOITS of the NOTORIOUS "BULLY" FORBES
CAPTAIN "BULLY" FORBES, the most famous and the most romantic of all skippers that raced from English ports to ...
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Upon December 2, 1805, was fought the Battle of Austerlitz. Napoleon, with 70,000 men, defeated the allied armies of Russia and Austria, which comprised 95,000 men. ...
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"Director Tower" (Elwood) writes:— Many people believe that the Germans were the only people capable of constructing such a gun as the "Big Bertha" which shelled ...
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ON a dark, starlit autumn night a large motor-car turns quietly out of a backyard in Bermondsey and proceeds at high ...
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To pass the Rubicon means to adopt some measure from which it is not possible to recede. The Rubicon was a small river separating ancient Italy from Cisaipine ...
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THREE of four roads from the Mornington Peninsula lead to the door of a little low-browed, old-fashioned hotel. Every ...
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