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The ladies of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, otherwise known as the coders of Grendon, had force-fed their eight indecipherables with a diet of transposition keys, and all but one of the invalids had responded to treatment. The
Leo Marks • Between Silk and Cyanide
Chatterton torpedoed out of the diesel motor room and up toward the top of the wreck. Kohler, stunned by the sight of his friend without a regulator, gave chase behind him. Chatterton’s lungs screamed as his stage bottles came into sight. He kicked harder. Every cell in his body shrieked for oxygen and pulled at his jaws to breathe. He clenched his
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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
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I remember an English lad who was always the life of the crew, but whom we afterwards lost overboard, standing for nearly ten minutes at the galley, with this pot of tea in his hand, waiting for a chance to get down into the forecastle; and seeing what he thought was a "smooth spell," started to go forward. He had just got to the end of t
... See moreRichard Henry Dana • Two Years Before the Mast
63 year-old daredevil named Annie Edson Taylor decided to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel for no obvious reason whatsoever. She survived with only a few bruises and gashes and declared, upon emerging, “I would sooner walk up to the mouth of a cannon, knowing it was going to blow me to pieces, than make another trip over the falls.”