April 24, 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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July 20, 2023 7 Comments
Many readers remember when, Sgt. Joe Friday, reminded his witnesses that he wanted, “Just the fact, ma’am; just the facts.” Friday worked for the Los Angeles Police Department, so have you wondered why most TV cop-shows feature the work done by the New York Police Department? Perhaps someday we will find an answer on a postcard.