... & the drought continues .....
Counting the cost of the big dry - $4 billion
June 8, 2005 - 5:19PM/the AGE
A new forecast suggests the big dry will wipe $4 billion off Australia's economic growth this year, as new figures show nearly all of NSW is officially in drought.
The grim economic prediction and bleak assessment of NSW came as weather forecasters today held out the hope of rainfall of up to 30 millimetres through a large area of south-eastern Australia later this week..... <cont>
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Big-dry-costing-Australia-4-billion/2005/06/08/1118123891380.html?oneclick=true
I look at those faces - and they make me so sad. Just THINK of what he - and so many - lived through. And how many died in a useless piece of old rich men's imperialist ****.
But how does a person go through all that & live to be 107?
Amazing!
Some Brit production company once did a motion picture about Nelson and Trafalgar. They started with an old, old man in a Soldiers and Sailors Home, and some young sprats talking about him before his face, as though he weren't there, then trying to get his attention, to say whether or not he had been at Trafalgar . . . he had been a boy then, a powder monkey . . . and that was the take-off for the picture.
It struck me particularly, because when i was a boy the Fourth of July parades included a convertible with the Spanish War (1898) veterans riding in it, and you would read from time to time in the newspapers of the death of this or that veteran of the American civil war (once again, boys--drummer boys and the like). Such people are a link to our past, but they usually gather dust in a home until they die, and then make the papers.
In my childhood the few Civil War veterans were in the cars and the WW I vets were marching. My mother took great delight in noting which uniforms had been let out to accommodate the benefits of civilian life.
I like that little anecdote, Noddy!
Msolga--
Thanks. We're an observing sort of family.
DNA could prove Kelly mates survived
DNA evidence could rewrite Australia's history books and prove two members of the infamous Kelly Gang survived the shootout at Glenrowan in Victoria, a historian believes.
Ned Kelly was captured in the shootout, which happened 125 years ago, and his brother Dan Kelly and fellow gang member Steve Hart were believed to have died in the subsequent fire.
But Queensland historian Paul Tully said the bodies of Kelly and Hart were never formally identified and speculation they survived began when man walked into the Brisbane office of The Truth newspaper in 1933 claiminto be the "real Dan Kelly".
Mr Tully said he wants the mystery solved and he was expected to ask the Victorian coroner to investigate the Glenrowan shootout and determine whether the pair really did die. ... <cont>
http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/DNA-could-prove-Kelly-mates-survived/2005/06/28/1119724627020.html
Them Irishters, they is hard to kill--totally believable. In 1878, the infamous James-Younger Gang, lead by Frank and Jesse James and Cole Younger, was shot to pieces by local vigilantes in Northfield, Minnesota. Cole Younger was captured, and doctors at the Stillwater State Penitentiary stated that they found evidence that Mr. Younger had been shot more than sixty times in his life, and that more than thirty of those wounds had been sustained during the shoot-out in the failed Northfield Raid.
Although Frank and Jesse James escaped, they didn't last long, and Jesse was killed by former gang member Bob Ford in 1882. But Cole Younger not only survived the horrendous shoot-out at Northfield, he survived nearly forty years in the prison at Stillwater, being finally released in 1917. From then until his death in 1927, Cole Younger earned a good living at his home in Missouri, where people were charged the then outrageous sum of fifty cents for the privilege of having a look at the infamous outlaw.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with Oz . . . so?
It's a robust thread set - that was interesting. I'm fascinated by the true stories behind those western legends.
Setanta wrote:... Which has absolutely nothing to do with Oz . . . so?
Not quite, but close ... sort of:
The Irish, outlaws shootings, horrible endings ....
goodfielder wrote:It's a robust thread set - that was interesting. I'm fascinated by the true stories behind those western legends.
"Robust"! I like that! :wink:
You'll probably have to be Australian to understand this one. As well as the reference to "Warnie", the
Dutch Masters exhibition is currently showing in Melbourne & Vermeer's painting is one of the exhibits:
Twenty whole years of this! Can you believe it?:
