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From one of my on-line literary calendars:
On this day in 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip brought the first British convict ships to anchor in Botany Bay, Australia. Over the next eighty years 825 such ships would bring 160,000 men and women to serve their "transportation" sentence -- seven years for most, fourteen or life for some, no time at all for the significant number unable to survive the eight-month voyage. Captain Phillip went on to become the first Governor of Australia, and today became Australia Day -- the nation so proud of being bad-to-the-bone that web sites such as convictcentral.com offer a full listing of all those transported and an adopt-a-service for those disappointed to find no founding criminals in the family tree. -- Email sent to is never read. |
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And we wonder why Karen is the way she is??
Who knows what her forefathers were convicted of! Harry Krause wrote in message ... From one of my on-line literary calendars: On this day in 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip brought the first British convict ships to anchor in Botany Bay, Australia. Over the next eighty years 825 such ships would bring 160,000 men and women to serve their "transportation" sentence -- seven years for most, fourteen or life for some, no time at all for the significant number unable to survive the eight-month voyage. Captain Phillip went on to become the first Governor of Australia, and today became Australia Day -- the nation so proud of being bad-to-the-bone that web sites such as convictcentral.com offer a full listing of all those transported and an adopt-a-service for those disappointed to find no founding criminals in the family tree. -- Email sent to is never read. |
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Don White wrote:
And we wonder why Karen is the way she is?? Who knows what her forefathers were convicted of! Harry Krause wrote in message ... From one of my on-line literary calendars: On this day in 1788 Captain Arthur Phillip brought the first British convict ships to anchor in Botany Bay, Australia. Over the next eighty years 825 such ships would bring 160,000 men and women to serve their "transportation" sentence -- seven years for most, fourteen or life for some, no time at all for the significant number unable to survive the eight-month voyage. Captain Phillip went on to become the first Governor of Australia, and today became Australia Day -- the nation so proud of being bad-to-the-bone that web sites such as convictcentral.com offer a full listing of all those transported and an adopt-a-service for those disappointed to find no founding criminals in the family tree. I check Levicticus: Sodomy, bestiality, and uncleanness. -- Email sent to is never read. |
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My, my!
I would have thought stalker...serial killer. Don't believe they ever did find 'Jack the Ripper'. Wonder if he was shipped to Australia for lesser crimes? Harry Krause wrote in message ... I check Levicticus: Sodomy, bestiality, and uncleanness. -- Email sent to is never read. |
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