Speaker's Podium

I have seen the Sydney Opera House.

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January 5th 2007
As long as I can remember, I have wanted to see the Sydney Opera House. The building had always captured my imagination as being completely in defiance of all the laws of large buildings (which say, of course, that all sides must be either stone or glass, and only right angles are allowed, with the exception of turrets). It was fanciful and graceful and majestic - and all this I could tell simpl ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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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