Life on the Goldfields: An entertainment by Charles Thatcherdoi:10.1080/08145857.1997.10415980Charles Robert Thatcher (1830-78) was the legendary itinerant singer-entertainer-songwriter who roamed the goldfields of Australia and New Zealand in the middle of the nineteenth century. Thatcher was ...
Bidwell and Blake were both passengers on the steamshipOregon, arriving on October 18, 1850 with the news that California had become the 31st state. Bidwell was traveling in a first class cabin, while Blake, a farm boy on his way to the goldfields, was in steerage. Bidwell carried with h...
阅读理解主题:人与社会(历史)体裁:说明文话题:尤里卡栅栏事件Life for miners on the goldfields in Victoria, Australiaduring the 1850s was quite difficut. The name given tominer at that time was “digger". Few diggers actuallya1found any gold and even fewer struck it rich. Mostlydiggers struggled...
An Australian man has been hailed a “hero” after repeatedly punching a shark until it released his wife’s leg. And while I do agree that punching a 10-foot-long, great white shark to save his wife is a pretty gutsy thing to do, lesser known heroes such as I go unheralded and tha...
Christmas 1926 – my father was born in March that year, and my Australian grandparents, Vin and Dora, spent Christmas at the family holiday house, Uringah, at Cowes on Phillip Island near Melbourne …That’s my grandmother’s handwriting in the photograph album above, and it’s my ...
The beautifully modeled and semi-naked female figure, holding the topmost cornucopia, which scandalized Victorian Edinburgh at the time. The fountain, now with a new pump that will be switched on permanently, is now painted in eye-catching turquoise, brown and gold which, according to the organi...
This week I’m going to give you a crash course on the Australian Prime Minister’s current political woes. Our current Prime Minister is Mr Anthony Albanese from the Australian Labor Party. Australians, better known as “Aussies” are great at abbreviating anything and so our esteemed Prime...
many thousands of pounds has been raised for the hospice in Kate’s memory but more is always welcome. If you are able to add to the funds and help to take it over £10,000, Carole, the hospice and Kate’s husband, Chris will be more than grateful.Click on the link here to dona...
On June 21, 2023 In Arts, Cherry Blossoms, Culture, Culture, Nature, Park, Travel “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” Theodore Roethke Wandering under sunlit cherry blossoms is the hallmark of spring’s “Cherry Blossomland” in Branch Brook Park and one of life’s grea...
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