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...About 6’ tall, Caucasian male, known to be drunk and suspected of first degree handsomeness. First thing you notice about a girl: 1. Full set of teeth? Check. 2. Depth of character. Your best pick-up line: You live in Weld? Have you heard of the Cleveland Steamer? Best lie you’ve ever told: Alexandra Palma, the results came back and you’re definitely not the mother of my child. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: Alexandra Palma, the results came back and you’re the mother...
...time the competition starts on Jan. 23, Kaysen will have cooked his way through hundreds of pounds of butter and cream, poultry, fish and vegetables. He will also have spent more than $150,000 on equipment like custom-made serving platters and a $22,000 combination steamer--convection oven he will use in the kitchen stadium where the competition takes place, coaches to help him refine his routine and several trips to France to charm the best purveyors of meat, fish and produce so that he will get the quality he needs when he goes to buy ingredients...
...Later that day, spirits aboard the Brunswick and the nine vessels grouped around her rose still higher. The men had spotted a flotilla of five small boats, dispatched from the steamer, coming toward them. It seemed that the promised passage out of the Bering Strait was about to be delivered. But, as the boats came into clearer view, the sailors gathered on the decks of the awaiting whaleships noticed that the approaching craft carried uniformed Confederate Navy officers. Moreover, almost simultaneously, the whaling seamen heard a warning shot fired in their direction from the steamer, and noticed that the Stars...
...This latter fact dispelled much of the whalemen's anxiety. And who knew? Perhaps the approaching steamer could provide the Brunswick's master and crew with passage out of this icy realm. Captain Jeremiah Ludlow of the Isaac Howland, one of the whaling vessels gathered around the Brunswick, agreed to carry Potter's request to the steamer. Dispatched in a whaleboat, he soon stood on the steamer's deck. Ludlow failed to learn the mystery ship's identity, and his reception by her officers had been a bit frosty. But they seemed to have expressed, albeit in vague language...
...When the steamer had come within hailing range, one of the Confederates shouted to the men gathered on the decks of the ten whaling vessels: as of that moment, all of their ships and cargoes were prizes of the CSS Shenandoah. The Confederates ordered the more than three-hundred men aboard the whaling vessels-each carried a crew of up to thirty-five-to surrender and come aboard the Shenandoah as prisoners of war. Failing that, they could go down with their vessels, all of which the Confederates threatened to destroy. Alarm rippled across the decks of the whalers. Officers...