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rockylizard


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Gday...

1943  -     Former Beatles member, George Harrison, is born. 

1798  -     Bass returns to Sydney after discovering Bass Strait.

1834  -     English newspaper 'The Leeds Mercury' reports that a secret expedition to Australia has located a large settlement of descendants of Dutch survivors from shipwrecks of the late 1600s. 

1890  -     In Australia, Robert Louis Stevenson begins writing his famous defence of Father Damien, missionary in Molokai, Hawaii. 

Cheers - John



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That movie about Father Damien was fantastic!

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My dear mum was born 25th Feb 1925.   She would have been 89 today.

 



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Gerty Dancer wrote:

That movie about Father Damien was fantastic!

 I agree GD and when in Honolulu last year did a tour around and saw the island off the coast



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And at 8:35 am I took my first breath (much to my mother's relief since I was 3 weeks overdue and weighed more than 10 lb)

 

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-- Edited by D and D on Tuesday 25th of February 2014 09:30:51 PM

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