Posts from Stumpy in thread „A Difference In Cultures“

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    I just wanted to say that it's extremely heartening to discover that in this wicked old world, with its' difference in cultures, there are lots of us who share the same staid, traditional values. Maybe there's hope for us yet.

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    Thanks for all the interesting information about your homeland, Smokey.


    I know Canberra is your national capital but isn't there also a geographical location in Australia called Nullabor? Seems to me I've seen that name on a map of Australia.

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    Originally posted by smokey@Apr 26 2004, 08:07 AM
    would you believe that this book is hard to find down under and even harder to get out at the library.



    I highly recommend that book, Smokey. It's very readable. Can't believe your libraries don't have it.


    BTW, I'm guessing that the term "mozzie" you use is a colloquialism for the aborigines. Am I correct?

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    Originally posted by arthurarnell@Apr 27 2004, 02:33 AM
    For a flavour of those times watch Errol Flynn in Captain Blood.




    Ahhhh, Errol, the Tasmanian devil. Nobody could swash a buckle like Errol.


    Thank goodness they finally released "The Adventures of Robin Hood" on DVD a few months ago. Now if they'd just get around to releasing some of his other early films like "Captain Blood", "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex", "They Died With Their Boots On" and "The Sea Hawk", life would be perfect. Or at least better. :D

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    A fascinating and well-researched history of Australia's founding is "The Fatal Shore" by Robert Hughes, which was published in 1986. Mr. Hughes was born and educated in Sydney.


    According to Mr. Hughes, most Australian historians before 1960, apparently out of a sense of shame, tried to ignore the fact that most original Australians got their start as convict exiles from England.


    From what I've read, King George III's Great Britain dealt savagely with even very minor lawbreakers, especially those of the lower classes, and if they didn't end up on the gallows, usually ended up on a convict ship bound for Australia. According to the book, the first shipment of convicts consisted of 548 males and 188 females in a fleet of eleven ships under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip in flagship Sirius. They sailed into Port Jackson or, as it would presently be called, Sydney Harbor, on the afternoon of 26 January, 1788.