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This isn't relevant to anything except in a general Friday musicky way. Gaga actually singing and wearing an actual dress! Who knew??
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Islander,
"Blueskin" because he was heavily tattoo'd, face & body, as befitted his rank.
I always wondered what the origin of that name was, fascinating, thank you!
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Paul Williams,
IMO, this has been a different scenario where the damage done may have been reduced had there been an immediate, comprehensive response from across all levels of government.
That’s when PMs are essential, they can command resources and co-ordination. I’d go so far as to say, that he should be on the ground so that he can understand the situation directly to help him act as the Executive.
+1 Couldn't have put it better.
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Ubirr in Arnhem land painted for millennia…
"Pre-Estuarine rock paintings also include depictions of extinct animals and enigmatic beings that combine the features of humans and wild yams"! How amazing!
All great links, thanks.
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
the original (old brick) Chchch library
I'm so sad about that building! I too have childhood memories of it. One was of seeing a mouse and wondering if it had come to eat the biscuits the librarian was surreptitiously munching.
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to DCBCauchi,
They developed their technology and way of living with their land a long time ago. At least a couple of ice ages ago. It doesn’t change at the same pace and in the same way as ours does.
No offence, DCB, but how do you know this?
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to DCBCauchi,
You can’t date it stylistically, because the style works as is. It hasn’t needed to change in 20,000 years, because it’s fully developed and resolved. It works.
I don't see why Aboriginal culture and technology would not have changed radically over that 20,000 years: if it hadn't it would surely be unique in the world. It's just a pity that history with all its changes and nuances is lost to us.
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
That's fascinating Ian, thank you.
Prof Norris and his Aboriginal partners used Nasa technology to measure the position of each rock in relation to the sun, and to demonstrate the connection with the solstices and equinox.
"It's truly special because a lot of people don't take account of Aboriginal science," says Reg Abrahams, an Aboriginal adviser working with Prof Norris.
As happened with Stonehenge, the discovery could change the way people view early societies. It is only recently that it has been demonstrated that Aboriginal societies could count beyond five or six.
I hope they manage to date the circle, if it were older than Stonehenge that would be awesome.
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to DCBCauchi,
and the Conquistadors had cultural contact with the Americas? England had cultural contact with Australian aborigines?
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
The whole idea of war being a thing where you go and fight people a long way away with whom you have little cultural contact would have baffled everyone right up to, oooh, Napoleon. There just wasn’t any point to it.
I agree with Rich that your definition of "war" is very narrow. Ever since the major Eurpoean powers had the techonology to travel long distances by sea, they've been taking over distant lands and stripping them of resources. In some cases native peoples were displaced and died of imported diseases more than they were murdered; in some cases they were simply massacred. The awful history of Tasmania is one such example.