December 10, 2024
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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December 11, 2022 3 Comments
The world changes every day, there is little that stays the same. How do we cope? How can we cope? We hate the change, and we suffer. We laud that which remains. We cope when we grin and bear-it. We cope by remembering when. Rip Van Winkle: an ode to an old man. Revisited!