The choice of the name Brisbane reflected a desire to acknowledge and honor the contributions and leadership of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Makdougall Brisbane during his tenure as Governor of New South Wales. By naming the settlement after him, the authorities paid tribute to his role in overseeing and supporting the establishment and early development of the Moreton Bay region, which eventually grew into the vibrant and populous city that Brisbane is today.
If we were to ask what the largest prisoner escape of World War II was, surely we would all automatically think of the two from Stalag Luft III. The one that was made into a movie in The Great Escape and the one known as The Wooden Horse. However, seventy-six men participated in the first, of whom
A two meter long painting of a kangaroo in the Kimberley region of Western Australia has been identified as the oldest intact cave painting in Australia. Using radiocarbon dating of 27 mud wasp nests, collected above and below 16 similar paintings, a University of Melbourne collaboration has dated
Indigenous peoples in Australia are the worlds oldest existing culture on earth. According to archaeological evidence, their history ranges from 50,000 to 80,000 years to XNUMX XNUMX years old. Indigenous Australians have preserved their history through stories called The Dreamtime, Dreamtime storie
With eight hundred thousand people in the 18th century, London was the largest city in Europe, where the greatest fortunes of the British Empire could be found and the most miserable neighborhoods in which homeless people, petty thieves, prostitutes... simply survived. Crimes against property were t