Rushing for Gold: Life and Commerce on the Goldfields of New Zealand and Australia. Edited by Lloyd Carpenter and Lyndon Fraser (Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2016), 396 pp. ISBN 978-1-877578-54-0, NZ$45.00 (pb).doi:10.1080/1031461X.2017.1337486Goodman...
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...
Detectives have asked for help identifying a man they wish to talk to about an assault at the Centenary Pavilion on Lowfields Road at Elland Road. Leeds District CID would like to speak to him regarding an incident that occurred last December, which left another man with serious leg injuries...
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...
THE COURIER THE INTENT 2: THE COME UP Tim Faraday Tony Todd Troma We Still Kill The Old Way 2014 24 HOURS IN LONDON A GOOD WOMAN IS HARD TO FIND A TEAR IN THE SKY Alana Wallace Australian horror Bai Ling BFI London Film festival Book ...
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 ...
I almost relented because I felt kind of bad for this guy to be selling tidbits under the rain so late at night. However, I took a glance to the side of the road and noticed that his friend was on a bike and trailing us. Immediately an alarm went off in my head. Pity turned to...
The Christmas treeis a good place to start. As I’ve blogged about before, our tree is always real (versus artificial), purchased from a nearby lot after choosing the best fit for the house and budget. This year however, I admit to a pause when I saw the price tags on the branches...
Located in forested wilderness between Gold Beach and Port Orford, Humbug Mountain State Park offers traditional campgrounds as well as RV sites. Not only is this state park on the smaller side, affording more privacy and amenities to visitors. It also has a great trail leading to the ocean....