Thus, a brochure inviting Gooris (more usually ‘Kooris’, an increasingly popular indigenous self-designation applying to and uniting all Aborigines and favored by some as a collective term to replace Aborigine/Aboriginal) to participate in a series of six weekly seminars about Bundjalung, a language of Southeast Australia that is now down to its last few speakers, […]
Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time. Scurvy and other diseases ran rampant, killing more seamen each year than all other causes combined, including combat.
The stars of the Right, which attracted a large following from the provincial nobility, were intransigents such as … Mirabeau's younger brother, the anorexically challenged Mirabeau-‘Tonneau’ (‘Mirabeau the Barrel’).
In the crusader theology, the two swords were totally united and not divided as Bernard would have it.