July 27, 2024
Tag: Austrailia
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Poster Postcards Part X
The US Navy Visits Australia
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U. S. Fleet Visits Australia The year before President Theodore Roosevelt left office, he dispatched the U. S. Navy’s Atlantic Fleet on an around the world tour. Twenty-eight ships and 14,000 men left port in Hampton Ponds, Virginia for South America, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, Malaya, and back home through Suez and the Straits of Gibraltar. One of the…
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December 12, 2023 4 Comments
Who could possibly think that a woman would look good in a barrel? It’s a preposterous idea, but comics have put pretty girls in barrels to sell products and even protest taxes. Then there is the story of Annie Taylor. What she did in a barrel was no laughing matter.