Farewell 2022 – Welcome 2023

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Kids Say the Darndest Things
BySite Admin September 6, 2019March 7, 2024

Teacher: How old is your father? Kid: He is 6 years.Teacher: What? How is this possible. Kid: He became father only when I was born. Teacher: Maria, go to the map and find North America. Maria: Here it is.Teacher: Correct. Now, class, who discovered America? Class: Maria. Teacher: Glenn, how do you spell ‘crocodile’? Glenn: …

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When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
BySally Jerapetritis February 16, 2024February 27, 2024

The melody of this song is based on traditional Irish folk music. Although it has had many iterations, the tune remains easily recognisable and has endured in popular memory. Over the centuries the lyrics and their intent have changed. It has been a drinking song, (“Johnny Fill the Cup”) a love ballad (using the words…

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Dorothea Mackellar
BySite Admin December 26, 2019March 7, 2024

Dorothea Mackellar was born Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar at Point Piper in Sydney, NSW on 1 July 1885. Her parents were Sir Charles Kinnaird Mackellar, a notable Sydney physician, and Marion Mackellar (nee Buckland). She had three brothers, Keith, Eric and Malcolm. “My Country” is a poem about Australia, written by Mackellar at the age of 19 while homesick in…

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Monopoly – more than just a board game
BySally Jerapetritis March 27, 2023April 14, 2023

If your family pulls out a board game this winter, there’s a good chance that it’s the world’s most popular board game, Monopoly. The game has sold more than a quarter of a billion sets, and half a billion people have played it. If Monopoly makes your blood boil, then you’ll know how its designer…

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We Need Your Help
BySite Admin March 28, 2021

While chatting recently about possible displays for our City of Canada Bay Museum, it was mentioned that there are many commemorative coins out there in circulation, The question was asked – “Why haven’t we been collecting these?” The only answer we could come up with was that we hadn’t thought of it. I know we…

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Duelling Picnics and the Dual Entente
BySite Admin May 28, 2021

Industrialisation in Europe and North America in the late nineteenth century engendered a wave of populist nationalism across the world. People who had once regarded themselves as having an affinity with a particular region, now thought in terms of their national identity. The idea in popular culture of a set of values that was unique…

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Farewell 2022 – Welcome 2023

Kids Say the Darndest Things

When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again

Dorothea Mackellar

Monopoly – more than just a board game

We Need Your Help

Duelling Picnics and the Dual Entente

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