Spies: the US secret orbiting shuttle-lite returns to earth. I expect a villain holding a cat was inside.
Fooling the Nazis: the BBC has an article about that famous deception involving floating a dead tramp in Spanish waters with fake invasion plans. I see he had been kept on ice for three months before embarking on his mission.
Holiday destination I could happily avoid: Another BBC story on a salt lake in Djibouti, which has summer temperatures of 55 degrees (and 34 degrees in winter.) Yet some people like it that way:
Like Ali, Mohamed says he is pinning his hopes for the future of Lake Assal, on tourists coming to look at it.
The first plush hotel has sprung up in Djibouti. It has two swimming pools and hot and cold running water.
But the water still smells of desalination chemicals and tastes of salt.
Its guests are mostly foreign military on rest and recuperation, visiting diplomats, and NGO staff.
I ask Ali why he and the other families do not leave and look for work in Djibouti town.
He says: "We were born here. We love Lake Assal. We like the heat, we just want more water."
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