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    In the Vietnam War, were Amphetamine tablets prescribe to army personnel to help them wade thru & across water?
     
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    Some amazing looking cars in this short video.

     
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    As a car lover, l always have a can of 'Start Ya Bastard' in my garage. A very good Aussie product, similar to WD40.

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    This year's FA Cup has produced a winner on a line from the very opening Extra Preliminary Round where the winning team has lost in the next round. Also, this is the first ever decade in which every year has produced a different losing finalist...

     
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    At Ronnie Barker’s memorial service in Westminster Abbey in 2006, vergers carried four candles instead of the usual two.
     
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    You should have seen what he was pushing it with
     
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    I bet we all know a few people or come across a few that talk out of this orifice, and I wager that if they were fed like that, they would run the risk of choking
     
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    The ship was based at Surabaya in the Netherlands East Indies when Japan invaded in 1941.[5][6] Following the Allied defeats at the Battles of the Java Sea and Sunda Strait in late March 1942, all Allied ships were ordered to withdraw to Australia.[4] Abraham Crijnssen was meant to sail with three other warships, but found herself proceeding alone.[7]
    To escape detection by Japanese aircraft (which the minesweeper did not have the armament to defend effectively against), the ship was heavily camouflaged with jungle foliage, giving the impression of a small island.[6][7] Personnel cut down trees and branches from nearby islands, and arranged the cuttings to form a jungle canopy covering as much of the ship as possible.[7] Any hull still exposed was painted to resemble rocks and cliffs.[7] To further the illusion, the ship would remain close to shore, anchored and immobile during daylight, and only sail at night.[4][6][7] She headed for Fremantle, Western Australia, where she arrived on 20 March 1942; Abraham Crijnssen was the last vessel to successfully escape Java, and the only ship of her class in the region to survive.[4][5]
     
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