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Mystery Interview with HMSR
By Amazing Kids!
What if walls could talk? Better yet: What if you could hear them, and look into the past, present, and future like never before? The Amazing Kids!’Mystery Interviews, is a series that takes you on a journey with things that usually don’t talk.
But now, they do! Read our interview for this issue and keep your eyes peeled for clues. Go to the bottom and check out the “Who Am I” section for the final dish on our inanimate interviewee, and come back every issue for a new interview…you just never know what we’ll interview next!
AK: What do you do for a living?
HMSR: Well, fine sirs, that is a question of utmost oddity, for I have two strange tales of my even stranger life. Once I was a great ship; now, I am more famous still, but I am used for matters of extreme importance; on me are drafted the most powerful letters of political trade in the world.
AK: Who were your greatest mentors?
HMSR: Long before I was commissioned for the noble quest to search for the illusive Sir John Franklin in the north seas, I was a simple barque, built on a humble river. But at the hands of Sir Horatio Thomas Austin, my Polar Bear head was turned towards the arctic ice, and I was a new vessel. Therefore, it would do me no small injustice to leave the congenial and note-worth Royal Captain. Henceforth, it was at the will of her gracious majesty that I was made into what I am today, a renowned and celebrated sort of chap, and under the generosity of good and noble presidents that I have been privileged to bear up the most important of documents, so I find it imperative to include them in my queue of influential mentors in my life.
AK: Hmm…we see. So then what are you?
HMSR: I once was a great vessel, but I was stranded alone in the barbarian ice packs of the Wellington Channel for an entire year. Where hence the most sagacious of learned whalers, an American, rescued me from the rough pilgrimage to return me to her majesty, in which I was trimmed down a good bit and sent back as a gift to the United States. I am made of what I was years ago, but I am not what I was anymore.
AK: What do you enjoy most about your job?
HMSR: That is a complicated question which requires many books in reply, but to put things simply, I enjoy being at two of the greatest homes and political epicenters on the planet, while boasting numerous carvings and bearing up under constant change for the better, such as a door through which a child can play peek-a-boo with (but that event was many years ago).
AK: How old are you?
HMSR: Faugh, though that question, better put, should be: How old are both of you?, in which case, young correspondent, the wiser and learned should have plainly told you that it is never polite to ask a lady’s age, and as for my other half, I shall not answer to spare my lady’s grace!
WHO AM I?
The HMS Resolute, Resolute Desk, and the Queen Victoria Desk
The Resolute Desk,
At the White House (By Pete Souza)
Hidden Clues
The HMS Resolute once was a great ship, and parts of it have been made into the President’s desk; on it are drafted the most powerful letters of political trade in the world.
The HMS was sent to find Sir John Franklin in the north seas with captain Sir Horatio Thomas Austin and a Polar Bear figurehead.
A drawing of the HMS Resolute
When it was a ship
It was at the will of Queen Victoria that the HMS Resolute was made into a desk for the United States President.
One of the most famous renovations to the Resolute Desk was a panel through which one of President Kennedy’s children played peek-a-boo through.
Other parts of the ship were made into a second, less famous Lady’s desk, which resides in Buckingham Palace.
Sir Horatio Thomas Austin
Capt. of the RMS Resolute
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