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Charlie overcame his fear of heights to scale the
Empire State Building in New York, with the twin towers of the World Trade
Centre in the background. Kaye considered researching whether clams
bounce when flung off high buildings, but was disuaded from carrying out
her research.
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Whoa! A killer whale & leopard seal almost
got Charlie & Tim, who weren't expecting to find them at the Natural
History Museum in NY, so far from their Antarctic homes. We escaped
with minor scars. |
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Charlie & Tim were in awe to stand next to the
"James Caird", the actual tiny wooden boat which the explorer Ernest Shackleton
sailed all the way across the treacherous Southern Ocean in the Antarctic
to save his men. Unbelieveable! Charlie put himself forward
to play Shackleton in the upcoming Hollywood film, but some nobody called
Liam Neeson apparently got the part. |
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Charlie's museum research continued at the Smithsonian
Institute in Washington DC, where he learned how he and his family had evolved
into the most perfect and intelligent creatures on earth. |
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Charlie was called away from his research to advise
the president at the White House on how to proceed on the proposed "Clam
Shell Tax". |
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Charlie's lobbying skills were required at the Congress
on Capitol Hill to put those silly politicians right on the "Clam Shell
Tax", now to be replaced by the "Oyster Shell Tax", which we feel is much
fairer and more sensible. |
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Charlie shares many of his passions of Thomas Jefferson,
especially botany and architecture (especially clam shell architecture!).
So here he is at Jefferson's house, Monticello, in Charlottesville, Virginia. |
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