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How thoughtful of Nature to not be disturbed by people. It was near to the ship, and there Mr. Broadhurst found the traces of two distinct camps, which nearly a century and a half had not obliterated. Indentations were still apparent in the ground made by the feet of the company while moving, in the [...]
[Keywords: Abrolhos Islands, books, History, nature, Reading, W. B. Kimberly, Western Australia, Wikisource] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I am trying to get my head around all of the various places that Fremantle features (regularly, topically) on the Web. I want to figure out where the Fremantle Society’s website fits in, and what it might be used for (what might be missing from elsewhere). So I started from the outside, yesterday, and moved [...]
[Keywords: Blogging, community, Fremantle, Fremantle City Council, Fremantle Society, History, journalism, NaBloPoMo, recording, semantic web, websites, Wikimedia, Wikipedia] [One comment] [Permanent link]
Reading history is a bit like reading fantasy or sci-fi; it’s just that the fanfic of history is generally more consistent than that of fantasy. I have been reading history lately (Victoria and Disraeli by Theo Aronson, the last couple of days, to be precise; history about personal relationships) and it is the story that [...]
[Keywords: Alternate world, Darkover, fanfic, fantasy, History, Marrion Zimmer Bradley, Reading, Theo Aronson, Victoria and Disraeli] [No comments] [Permanent link]
