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Welcome to the MAY 2004 edition of
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Welcome to the MAY 2004 edition
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THE SECRET LIFE
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Hey gang! Welcome to
Next month we have Moya Simons, famous author of the Dead Meat series and Totally Weird series! (to name only two!!!) So check out the CLUB CONTEST we're running to go with that. And don't forget to tell all your friends and teachers about the new website at There's heaps of prizes to be
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Famous Bounty Hunters (even more famous than Kirby's Crusaders!!!): Edward Bonney: He lived in
America in the early 1800's. But he wasn't a lawman or a
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CLUB JOKES
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Bad Jokes of the month:
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CRUSADER MAD SCIENTIST
FINGERPRINTS Did you know that the NAFIS (National Automated Fingerprint Identification System) was created in 1986 but it began in 1903 when the Inspector of NSW Prisons gave 6,000 sets of prisoners’ fingerprints to the NSW Police. The NAFIS is now considered the best in the world and boasts a database of about 2.1 million sets of fingerprints!!!
Everybody in
the world has unique fingerprints even identical twins. Your fingerprints
are one of the easiest ways of identifying you and many criminals have
gone to a lot of trouble trying to disguise theirs even dipping their
fingertips into acid – OUCH! Fingerprints behave like an ink stamp. When
your finger touches an object the ridges cause contact patterns that are
reproduced in sweat rather than ink. These prints tend to be invisible and
are dusted with fine powders that stick to the sweat and reveal the print.
Here’s how you can dust for your own
fingerprints. WHAT
YOU NEED q
Spatula q
Sheet
of newspaper q
White
powder (talc) q
Soft
brush q
Samples
of: glossy paper, filter paper, black plastic, white plastic,
cloth WHAT TO
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CLUB JARGON BUSTERS If you have a weird word you'd like to share, then email the us HERE and we'll spread the word - or explain it for you: Alias: (pronounced Aey-lee-ass) A fake name used to keep your real name a secret. Body Bag (You know how to say that one!) It's the plastic or rubber bag used to carry dead bodies from the place of death to the morgue or mortuary. Exfiltrate (pronounced X-fill-trate) It means to sneak somebody out of somewhere - usually involving a dangerous situation, but spies and military people often use the easier word "extract" instead. Infiltrate: (pronounced
In-fill-trate) To sneak someone IN to a dangerous situation for a secret
reason or mission.
CLUB SECRET The title of the first book in the crusader series is a play on words because it uses both meanings of the word TAG in the title! |
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WEIRD NEWS Fossilised skeletons of 10 modern humans (including 4 women and 1 baby) have been cut out of 140 million year old sandstone bedrock in Dakota, America! That's too weird! The bones were imbedded over 30 meters underground - much too deep in rock to be a mass grave! They were also found in the same rock that fossilised the remains of cretaceous dinosaurs! No tunnels, caves or weakspots were found anywhere near the humans. No obvious tools or artefacts either. But two green mineral gemstones called Malachite and Turquoise had fossilised into their bones - a process which by itself takes millions of years! For more information click HERE
CLUB SCAM
WATCH
CLUB MONEY Focus on Personal $$$: People who think they have to be rich before they can be happy, will never be rich. You have to be happy with yourself before money will be happy to stay with you. Fun tip: Choose your favourite free hobby or past-time. Work out how much time you spend doing it each week. Then multiply the number of hours by $10. The answer you get is how much your past-time is costing you by not working at your local supermarket or fast food store. For example if you spend only 2 hours every day watching tv, you could have been earning $140 a week. This DOESN'T mean you should stop doing your favourite things. It just helps to remind you that you should have had a $140 smile on your face the whole time. Focus on Business: In Hunt the Hunters, Kirby and the gang learn Rule 1 of Success: Protect your assets! Enemies can be Anywhere!
CRUSADER NUMEROLOGY |
HOLY COW!!!!
THESE CROOKS
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CLUB FIND-A-WORD
PUZZLE Instructions: Words to find (up, down,
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