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California 164 Years Ago in History...
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Do you know what happened 164 years ago this summer..... September 9, 1850? California became a state! The people had no electricity. The state had no money. Almost everyone spoke Spanish. There were gunfights in the streets. So basically NOTHING has changed except, then the women h...
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Las Vegas Tower 21......
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Note: 2.42MB download... -- Edited by Vic41 on Wednesday 28th of May 2014 03:12:48 PM
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May 28 Today in history
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Gday... 1813 - Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth reach Mt York, from where they sight rich grazing land on the other side of the mountains. Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth were Australia's first inland explorers. They were determined to find a way through the impassable Blue Mountains to the ri...
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Rocky's travel mate ...
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Gday... This liddle bloke has been all over the place for the past five years ... loves it best when we are in QLD outback - or when the sun is shining on him. He's a lot easier to care for than a dawg coz he catches flies and insects that get into the Landy and doesn't need to drink very often Cheers -...
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Co-driver
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Bubba B taking lessons in PJ.
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May 27 Today in history
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Gday... 1815 - Australian politician and the 'Father of Federation', Sir Henry Parkes, is born. Henry Parkes was born in Warwickshire, England, on 27 May 1815. A failed business venture prompted him to seek passage with his wife to Australia, and he arrived in Sydney in 1839. Moving up from a p...
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Sorry - couldn't help meself ...
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Now I'm retired ....
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10 Men put downs
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1. Please don't talk to my breasts. You won't be meeting them. 2. If you want to control someone, sleep with your remote. 3. I always choose chocolate over men. ALWAYS 4. 51% love goddess...49% bitch. Care to push your luck? 5. My sexual preference is NO 6. My body is my temple, now get on your knees a...
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May 26 Today in history
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Gday... 1647 - The first hanging of a witch occurs in America, portending the Salem witch trials several decades later. On 26 May 1647, the first person was hanged in America for the crime of witchcraft. Alse Young was arrested, tried in Windsor, Connecticut, and hanged at Meeting House Squar...
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Green lake Victoria
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Will somebody tell me where Green Lake.West of Vic is.. Not the Greens lake Corop Vic near Elmore Midlands H/Way
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Salaries and Rorts
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I think we know this, but can we do anything about it?????/ It is time all Australians demanded these rorts be stopped. After all it's the pollies who made these laws to cover their greed, both LNP and Labor. We pass these emails around but do nothing about it, now it's time The Trough Is Deep -These peop...
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May 25 Today in history
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Gday... 1830 - After tracing the Murray River for thousands of kilometres, Sturt's party finally arrives back in Sydney. Captain Charles Sturt was born in India in 1795. He came to Australia in 1827, and soon after undertook to solve the mystery of where the inland rivers of New South Wales fl...
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16 Forgotten English Words
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English changes all the time, often in subtle waysso it's not surprising that we've lost many delightful words and phrases along the way. In his wonderful book Forgotten English, Jeffrey Kacirk takes a closer look at the origins and histories of these language relics. Here are a few of our favorite w...
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BEING GREEN
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Being Green Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the much older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this 'green thing' back in my earlier days." T...
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Current Government system
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Hi to all, Not having being taught at school the finer points of our parliament and all it stands for, I have the following question for those of us who are well versed in this subject: I have always wondered why we have state governments. This is even worse when we have a state government that is a differe...
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Overseas nomad
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Hi all, We're having a great time. The cruise across the Pacific was so relaxing. The helicopter ride we did on Kauai was fantastic. That should be put on everyone's bucket list. The scenery is out of this world. We have spent the last 2 weeks in Oregon with friends. Keith has been fishing twice &a...
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1933 Packard & 101 Year Old Driver
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http://www.youtube.com/embed/qxCpK1W_Gjw?feature=player_embedded-- Edited by Vic41 on Saturday 24th of May 2014 09:45:56 AM
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May 24 Today in history
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Gday... 1686 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, after whom the Fahrenheit scale of temperature is named, is born. Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit was born on 24 May 1686 in the Hanse city Danzig, located in Royal Prussia. His parents died at a relatively young age from consuming poisonous mushrooms, and subse...
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SO ... now you know ...
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