The 1943 French comic book, "Red Rackham's Treasure, " included a shark-like submarine with dorsal fins and a tail.

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How do they feel now that it is to be restored by aircraft with shamrocks on their tail fins and names associated with Irish saints on their bodies?

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But first Mr. Melek sticks a decal with his court's initials, CNJ, on the planes' tail fins and snaps a photo of his prized catch to email to his buddies.

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The easiest way to identify who the planes belong to is by looking at the tail fins -- the only part at this stage that's painted in the airline livery.

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Kennedy airport, when an Air France Airbus A380 clipped the tail fins of a much smaller Comair flight CRJ700, observers and analysts have been asking questions about whether a similar accident could happen elsewhere, and just when a super-large jumbo jet is too big.

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It's still summer in Norway, which means the narrow, twisting roads along the fjords are claimed by classic American cars from the Forties, Fifties and Sixties: Buick Specials with chrome-toothed grilles and portholes, Cadillacs with jutting tail fins and Chevrolet Corvettes with massive V-8 engines.

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It's still summer in Norway, which means the narrow, twisting roads around the fjords are claimed by classic American cars from the Forties, Fifties and Sixties: Buick Specials with chrome-toothed grilles and chrome portholes, Cadillacs with jutting tail fins and Chevrolet Corvettes with massive V-8 engines.

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But after a lifeboat rescue, the endearing creature - which looks like a giant head, and has a parrot-like beak, no tail and two giant dorsal fins - is settling down to life at the Blue Planet Aquarium in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.

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