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The South Pole, Volume 1 by Roald Amundsen

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So now spring had really arrived; we had only to cure the frost-bitten
heels and then away.

End of Vol. I.






NOTES

[1] -- Fram means "forward," "out of," "through." -- Tr.

[2] -- This retrospective chapter has here been greatly condensed, as
the ground is already covered, for English readers, by Dr. H. R. Mill's
"The Siege of the South Pole," Sir Ernest Shackleton's "The Heart of
the Antarctic," and other works. -- Tr.

[3] -- Anniversary of the dissolution of the Union with Sweden. -- Tr.

[4] -- Daengealso means "thrash." -- Tr.

[5] -- Unless otherwise stated, "miles" means English statute
miles. -- Tr.

[6] -- A language based on that of the country districts, as opposed
to the literary language, which is practically the same as Danish. The
maal is more closely related to Old Norse. -- Tr.

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Climbing the walls

Barack Obama is teaming up with Spider-Man in a comic from Marvel, which will see the future president exchanging a fist-bump with the superhero. The story sees one of Spidey's oldest enemies, the Chameleon, trying to stop Obama being inaugurated. Spider-Man's alter ego, Peter Parker, is covering the event as a photographer, and saves the day.

"Ya hear that, Chameleon?" Spider-Man says as he thwacks the villain in the face. "The president-elect here just appointed me ... secretary of shuttin' you up."

He tells Obama: "This is your day, and I know it wouldn't look good to be seen palling around with me" - in a nod to Sarah Palin's comment that Obama had been "palling around with terrorists".

"When we heard that president-elect Obama is a collector of Spider-Man comics, we knew that these two historic figures had to meet in our comics' Marvel Universe," said the publisher's editor-in-chief, Joe Quesada.

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