An account of a group which rescues dogs from war-torn countries and rehomes them. 

The Great Northern

The Great Northern was a particularly nasty Medieval weather phenomenon, the reason why the Dark Ages were considered to be so dark, and its history of disasters was manifold, until, unaccountably, it died down eventually, leaving people wondering exactly why it ever happened. 

For the term of his natural life

In the 1820s, an English gentleman is wrongfully convicted of crime and sentenced to penal servitude in Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) "for the term of his natural life". What the authorities don't know is that he is in fact an immortal and a shape-shifter. After surviving the brutal conditions of the penal colony unscathed and outliving all his captors, he embarks on an extraordinary series of escapades in a wild variety of guises, the most notorious of which is as a giga-star housewife from Moonee Ponds... oh, hang on, I may be getting my Aussie icons a bit mixed up here...  

True History of the Kelly Gang

A riveting yarn about how a couple of escaped convicts called Kelly, (or was it Buckley?) turned bushrangers, & along with others like Captain Thunderbolt of Uralla, raided settlers' homes for dinner ware, blankets, & food supplies, with the help of the Aborigines who had sheltered them, previously, thus starting the Black Wars, at places like Myall Creek or Pittwater, sometime in the 1830's, somewhere to the south-east of New Holland, which were so ashamed of the massacres in both places, that the name of the colony of Van Dieman's Land was changed in 1856 CE.  

The potato factory.

Bored kids use a bag of potatoes to make artworks, models, electricity, and finally a book depicting all their creations.

Farmer Giles Of Ham