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Multicultural X-mas party

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December 8th 2007
On Saturday, Steve and Max took me to a multicultural potlatch meeting of some Buddhist monks at a college near the CBD; unfortunately I forgot to bring my cellphone-cam, so I had to take pictures with Steve's phone-cam; at the beginning of the feast, there was some introduction of a senior Brisbane Buddhist-monk about the motive of the evening "compassion and goodwill permeate the world"; approxi ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Toowoomba

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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