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A young Australian soldier wrote home from the battlefields in France asking his Mum to knit some warm socks  
   

A young Australian soldier wrote home from the battlefields in France asking his Mum to knit some warm socks

but sadly he was killed and the socks were left unfinished.
Ghosts Of Gold

September 19th 2011
Today, Monday 19th September, we had a very lazy start. We had a couple of things in mind to do but they didn’t require much planning so I took the opportunity to do some washing. Later I needed to do a bit of shopping but before that we had it in mind to do a walking tour of Charters Towers’ city centre – The Square Mile. We parked in the Woolies car park as that is where we would end up ... read more
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Australian Flag Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more
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