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Jayne
@oldcowjayne.bsky.social
Weird old cow, eclectic tastes in music, Naarm (Melbourne)-centric collector of bugs, plants, books and sparkly things. Gunai Kurnai, vision & hearing impaired, in lust with all things history, science, and facts.
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I heard she works in a Brighton Basement !
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Shamelessly stolen from my fav hard rubbish group 😆
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#OTD #Australia #History #speed #car
1934 - Today Charles Kingsford Smith was driving in any fashion other than a typical Sunday driver when he broke the Sydney-Melbourne round trip road record in 17 hours in his sports car.
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#OTD #history #Australia 🖤💛❤️
Jan. 4, 1688 William Dampier rocked up at Warwa Unggumi (King Sound) WA and pronounced the #Aboriginal People as,
"The miserablest people in the world."
Here he is with his Resting Bitch Face deployed...
January 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
January 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM

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#OTD #history 1955 Movie 'Jedda' premiered in #Darwin, the first to star two #Aboriginal actors, Robert Tudawali, better known Bobby Wilson and Ngarla Kunoth, now known as Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, in the leading roles. It was the first #Australian feature film to be shot in colour.
January 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM

#OTD #Australia #history 1850 - Victoria's first stamps issued. Costing 1d., 2d. and 3d., they featured a portrait of Queen Victoria, who was most definitely amused to have 'colonials' licking her back !
*Hallucinogens not guaranteed.
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