December 15, 2025
Tag: Melbourne
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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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I remember asking my mother, “How can that be?” when we visited the Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Can it be that millions of nine-year-olds asked the same question?