Back in October 1915 twenty six men left Gilgandra on a month long march to Sydney where they would enlist for WW1. At each town they passed through the men would call “coo-ee” to attract recruits and hold recruitment meetings. It became known as the Coo-ee March and by the time t...
Power can be abused – is it time for Link to get revenge for years of abuse? He makes choices that are quite horrible, he is everything you think of when it comes to a creepy person. To be fair he is copying his literary character, and TV show idols – he even names his ...
than the rest of the 7 siblings of the Peak/Ayers family. My relatives always acted hesitant whenever the Cherokee connection was brought up. Sort of dismissive regarding the topic. Other names of our family line were Hart, Blevins, Hurley. I DThere is a mention of someone named ‘Old Ned...
Haven’t done work on my family tree for some years but I am directly related to John whose will is on this site. All the men in the family had names beginning with J. Elizabeth Reply Claire August 10, 2015 at 7:32 am Hi, I seem to have Ogbourne links to Hillingdon. The most...
It’s no mystery why Ikea only names carpets and flooring after Danish cities. If you are only talking about within Scandinavia, Swedes hate the Danes. I guess 600 years of war will do that. Every Swede has a story about how the Danes came up and massacred all the royalty of Sweden, ...
and sterile suburban tracts on the other. But these romantic perceptions, along with place names drawn from pre-urban farms, farmers markets and street festivals, were brought into being by the migrants themselves. “Boerum Hill, for example, was a name invented in the 1960s and 1970s to de...
As much if not more for my benefit as anyone else’s, a record of my various active websites blogs. Some updated more regularly than others, according to need. I was involved with “microtechnology” and accessibility from the early ’80’s, was running and moderating Professional and Union...