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rockylizard


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Gday...

1909  - 

Australian geologists Douglas Mawson and Edgeworth David become the first to reach the magnetic South Pole. 

1793  - 

Free settlement commences in Australia. 

1837  - 

The "Proclamation Establishment of Government in SA" is printed on South Australia's first printing press.

1889  - 

Cloncurry, Queensland, records Australia's highest shade temperature. 

1919  - 

Prohibition in the United States takes effect.

Cheers - John



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200 years is a drop in the bucket, but it makes a pretty big splash!

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In 1889, I wonder what the excuse for the high temperature was???????


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Probably flat earth warming.

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