Queenstown w/paraglyder

A Mixed Feelings Day

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November 7th 2006
Monday the 6th of November was a travel day from Rotorua to Queenstown. Tuesday the 7th. After 6 days in the hospital with pneumonia my mom, Jan McClure, died at 9:18 am PST/USA. She was 85 years old. Then at 12:40 pm CST/USA, Jocelyn Martha Hicks was born to Sara and Wade Hicks. Both mother and child are well and recovering from the c/sec birth. Jocelyn's birth wt. was 8 lbs 6 oz. and 19 in. l ... read more

Oceania » Australia

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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