Embedded computers are the unsung heroes of modern life.

If the hour and the circumstance and the cause will but unite us, this unweaponed host will stretch away at once in majestic orders of tens of thousands--legions upon legions that would shame Xerxes for numbers and that first Caesar for strength.

The bullock driver, or bullocky, was an important part of the rural labour force in the era before cars and, in some places, for long after.[…]A good bullocky could get work just about anywhere.

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