Nine Weird and Wonderful stories from the past, including this one about a U.S. Submarine having the shit bombed out of it by a Japanese Destroyer in the south Pacific. They had been submerged for a long time, and the batteries were dangerously low, so they had to surface to recharge them, which doesn’t take…
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Burns Accident Guide: This concise, easy to read outline of the correct procedures to observe when faced with a burns accident victim, and could save him/her from more serious consequences.

The recent finding of a 5.5Kg, $290.000 gold nugget by a man in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia stirred up the wander lust in me again. It was about 2ft deep, and by noise it would’ve made when the detector coil passed over it, he would have been excused for thinking that someone had buried a Jeep….
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Below is a link to Amazon Kindle for this book. Obese Children and the Complications They Face, Diabetes, Heart, Liver and Kidney Failure, Blindness, Amputation and Nerve Damage This is a no-frills look at what can happen to a diabetic if his lifestyle is not changed. It only needs a small change to bring about…
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All the Rusty Nails books have been updated, Photo Sizes increased, and a new chapter added dealing with Rusty’s retirement to a Retirement Village. It saddens me when I think about how he loved the bush escapades around the goldfields in Victoria, Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. These days his big moments are twice…
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Stories and quality photographs from the early 1930′s when a passenger aircraft carried 8 passengers and only had one engine. Stories about Lady Somers who flew from Melbourne to Darwin in a Gipsy Moth, Donald MacKay who pioneered Aerial Mapping of Central Australia, using a “Made-over” Aneclll airplane, where the ultra heavy and underpowered liquid…
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Obesity in Children This has been a long term, passionate interest of mine, having been a Type 2 Diabetic from 1980, with complications such as Peripheral Neuropathy and Peripheral vascular disease rearing their ugly heads from 2000 to 2009. I’m horrified at the thought of kids as young as ten years old contracting Type 2…
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To get the maximum size picture in your reader, I’ve posted all the photographs in landscape orientation, at the maximum size and definition allowable, so remember to switch to landscape view for the best result. The Text is embedded in the image at a size of 16px, and will not be altered by any settings…
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Blinky Bill was written by Dorothy Wall and was the first in a series. Published in 1933 with pen and ink illustrations by the author it was, and still is, a popular bed-time story for small children who love to have Mom or Dad read a passage from Blinky Bill’s mis-adventures as he lurches from one crisis to another.

Free Kindle Books are always popular, But do you understand why the author is handing them out? Some authors give away several thousand free books in one day. Of course it would have to be a popular niche to reach numbers like that, less popular niches may only reach a few hundred in a day.