Johann Friedrich, count von Struensee (German physician and statesman) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

Johann Friedrich, count von Struensee (German physician and statesman) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia: "German physician and statesman
born Aug. 5, 1737, Halle, Prussia [Germany]
died April 28, 1772, Copenhagen, Den.

(count of)
German physician and statesman who, through his control over the weak-minded King Christian VII, wielded absolute power in Denmark in 1770–72.
Struensee became town physician of Altona (then in Denmark, now in Germany) in the 1760s. Through acquaintance with certain Danish courtiers, he was named to accompany the mentally unstable Christian VII on a European tour (1768–69), a post that led to Struensee’s appointment as court physician in 1769. Dominating the king, he became the lover of Queen Caroline Matilda in ..."

Farmers' rally gets brush-off from Canberra - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - General - Queensland Country Life

Farmers' rally gets brush-off from Canberra - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - General - Queensland Country Life: "THE Federal Government will have nothing to do with a farmers' rally on property rights, saying it will not give in to people who use self-harm to advance their agenda.
The NSW Farmers' Association is organising a rally in Canberra on Tuesday to support Peter Spencer, who went on a hunger strike for 52 days in protest at native vegetation laws."

A few Wet Days

More of this, long grass & weeds


I was taking a few shots at new shops in the ''Stocklands'' newest development over Moores Creek, Rockhampton Qld Au.

512 km composite Brisbane (Marburg) Radar Loop

512 km composite Brisbane (Marburg) Radar Loop

It has been raining steady all night in spite of The Weather chart showing it only on the coastal patches
Yeppoon/Rockhampton & moving towards Bundaberg..

Also Concentrated about Coloundra & other South East towns & Cities including Toowoomba.

Ironic~~ Toowoomba now has piped water from the Wyven-Ho Dam ~~ Wow, the State Government has seen fit to have it pumped up~~

Prince Web Site - MyHeritage.com

Prince Web Site - MyHeritage.com: "photos, automatically.
This may take a little while. You can track progress in the top right corner"

Pamela's space - Windows Live

Pamela's space - Windows Live: "When those Pesky Speeding Cars Annoy
This Chap has the Solution"

This Old House

I am having trouble keeping things straight around here.
The Rain Water tank is on a lean,
The garden has got away on me, my dear.
And buckets of paint needed, I don't give a bean.

With the highway running by & traffic so thick,
I am now selling before I am surrounded by coal mine,
Calling the Real Estate saying ''Sell'' I'll want a brick
Home with the fortune I could make from this rhyme.

You may find a similar picture on Red Bubble,

Just look 4 Spotmore yes, I ment '4Spotmore'

Please don't give me any more trouble,

Copyright theft will ~~ you know fore..

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Wet Day in This Town

The Tractor has seen better Days..

Unusual as it is, the rain has swirled around and come back..

Pamela's space - Windows Live

Pamela's space - Windows Live: "Australian Army Convoy
I was returning home from gemfields & shot this"

You Can also view the Ecidna a native Anteater of Australia
also known as a Porcupine..

Pictures of Similar Boats in Decay Hulks

''The discovery Hulk'' I believe was used in the Thames to hold Prisoners
in the 18th - 19th Century...

You can view other wooden boats at:

Felix (1893) :: Felix__1893_.JPG :: Fotopic.Net

See the one over near the bank of river, very much rotted away..
Then this one still moored, but seen better days.

http://medway.fotopic.net./p28575887.html/

Not possible to copy in anyform unless you print & I have been able to print
small view as in catalogue..

Home

Home: "The whales do not live in Antarctica all year-round. They are found there in the summer, feeding on krill and other marine resources and in the autumn head north into the warmer waters of the tropics. There they give birth, the calf feeding on its mother's rich milk before migrating back to Antarctic waters.
Fourteen species of cetaceans (the name given to whales, dolphins and porpoises) are found in Antarctica. Of these, twelve are whales. There are two groups, the baleen whales and the toothed whales. Cetaceans are highly intelligent mammals. They communicate with sound which also serves as an echo location system."

Click on Home for further reading:

BBC - Newsbeat - Top tips for driving safely in the snow and icy weather

BBC - Newsbeat - Top tips for driving safely in the snow and icy weather:

"Top tips for driving safely in the snow and icy weather"

this system does not let me copy paste the url.. so there is a number of
short entries like this one.

While we are having Summer Monsoons

I did not take pictures on the wet days, just one of the neighbour's mower man..

A Candid Picture from the Bedroom Window looking towards the flat next door. This chap did not do the mowing, just delivered the trendy wet weather model, showed them how to start it, actually started it for them, then a young man did the rest.

How is the weather on the other side of the world?

Snow ... an instructor shows a young reporter how to drive in the snow. [ Drive only when absolutly necessary, was his advice]

A VANCOUVER WINTER, the outtakes [jayward33.blog-city.com]

A VANCOUVER WINTER, the outtakes [jayward33.blog-city.com]: "The monsoon is on us!!!"

you must be member

BJP -- Sign In Page: On the Present State of Our Knowledge Regarding General Paralysis of the Insane....
Westphal Journal of Mental Science.1869; 14: 506-522"

Searched for '' Single mothers regarded as Insane''

see next entry for picture of book..

Vancouver Travel Information and Travel Guide - Canada - Lonely Planet

Vancouver Travel Information and Travel Guide - Canada - Lonely Planet: "When the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games roll into town in 2010, there'll be no shortage of jaw-dropping visuals, instantly inspiring people around the world to check out Canada's immigration procedures. Vancouver is, after all, one of the cities that routinely tops those lists of the world's greatest places to live. But beyond the breathtaking snowcapped crags, city-hugging beaches and dense waterfront forests lies a comparatively young metropolis that's still trying to discover its true identity - less than 150 years after a 'gassy' Englishman rowed in and kicked it all off with a makeshift pub."

Disregard the earlier post.. that blogger has led me a bumb steer there .. I cannot find planet travel except this one..

CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF

HAVE YET TO CHECK THIS OUT MYSELF

www.planeteyetravel.com/travel/north-america/vancouver

China sentences Tibetan film-maker

China sentences Tibetan film-maker: "A Chinese court has handed a six-year prison term to a Tibetan film-maker who made an internationally watched documentary in which ordinary people aired grievances, his family says.
Dhondup Wangchen, 35, had trekked across the Himalayan territory for five months asking about topics including Chinese rule, the exiled Dalai Lama and the Olympics which Beijing was preparing to hold in August 2008.
The self-taught film-maker was arrested in March that year as major protests erupted in Tibet.
He had just completed the film, Leaving Fear Behind, which has since been screened in more than 30 countries."

THIS IS FROM NINE OR MSN NEWS..

Virus fears after CQ bat bites - State News - Agribusiness and General - General - Queensland Country Life

Virus fears after CQ bat bites - State News - Agribusiness and General - General - Queensland Country Life: "Virus fears after CQ bat bites
DANIEL HURST
07 Jan, 2010 06:33 AM
THERE are fears for three men bitten by a bat infected with the potentially deadly lyssavirus in central Queensland on Tuesday.
The animal has tested positive to the Australian bat lyssavirus, which can cause serious illness in humans and has killed two people since it was identified in 1996.
The men were all attacked by the 'little red flying fox' while walking separately along a track at Joseph Banks Conservation Park near the Township of 1770, south of Gladstone"

whaling: West's Encyclopedia of American Law (Full Article) from Answers.com

whaling: West's Encyclopedia of American Law (Full Article) from Answers.com: "Hunting of whales for food, oil, or both. Whaling dates to prehistoric times, when Arctic peoples used stone tools to hunt whales. They used the entire animal, a feat not accomplished by Western commercial whalers until the advent of floating factories in the 20th century. The Basque were the first Europeans to hunt whales commercially; when seaworthy oceangoing vessels began to be made, they took to the open seas (14th – 16th century). They were followed by the Dutch and the Germans in the 17th century and the British and their colonists in the 18th century."

Whaling - Ship-based whaling - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Whaling - Ship-based whaling - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand: "For the first 40 years of the 19th century whaling was the most significant economic activity for Europeans in New Zealand – with the hunt first for sperm whales from visiting ships and then for right whales by shore-based whalers. The pursuit had major consequences for Māori society. Some of New Zealand’s most important early European settlers were whalers"

Multimedia - Photos from Queensland's big wet - Queensland Country Life - rural news, classifieds and community

GO TO THE WEB PAGE & VIEW MORE..

Multimedia - Photos from Queensland's big wet - Queensland Country Life - rural news, classifieds and community: "Photos day two at Hamilton, Birregurra, Casterton
06 Jan 10 Day two of the weaner sales at Hamilton, Birregurra and Casterton."

Rip out vines, wine industry told - National Rural News - Viticulture - General - Queensland Country Life

Lehmann Wines .. being where in the industry? Government has been subsidising Wine Industry for couple of Decades ... result an over supply..

Rip out vines, wine industry told - National Rural News - Viticulture - General - Queensland Country Life: "PETER Lehmann Wines has warned that the Australian wine industry must rip out 35,000 hectares of vineyards to restore the balance between supply and demand."

Whaling clash leaves activist with broken ribs | The Courier-Mail

Whaling clash leaves activist with broken ribs The Courier-Mail

Just what is it with these Anti-Whaler Beggers.. They have Students do their Canvassing for the dollars to sail their ''Worrier Worry Warts'' telling the rest of the World
Don't do as I do, do as I say..

Britians & Americans as well as the Colonies of Australia & New Zealand were the worst to slaughter the poor Whale...

Pitcairn Islands Study Center

Pitcairn Islands Study Center:

"MATILDA British whaler under the command of Captain Matthew Weatherhead. The Matilda had sailed from England on March 27 1791, and had touched at Port Jackson and Peru before arriving in Tahiti on February 14, 1792, anchoring in Vaitepiha Bay. For some inscrutable reason Captain Weatherhead stayed only three days at Tahiti.

On the night of February 24, 1792, the Matilda foundered on Mururoa atoll, 640 miles south-east of Tahiti (see the March 1792 commentary in Part I). All of the crew were saved and reached Tahiti on March 5. Soon afterwards the schooner Jenny from Bristol arrived in Tahiti, and when she sailed for America Captain Weatherhead and four members of the crew went with her. Instead of waiting for another ship, three of the men took one of the four whaleboats of the Matilda, fitted it with sails of native matting, and sailed for Port Jackson. They were never heard from again.

If they had waited only a few weeks, they could have sailed back to Europe with Captain Bligh in the Providence. Bligh arrived on April 10 and when he left a little over three months later, he took fifteen of the Matilda’s crew with him. The remaining six wanted to stay on Tahiti. One of them, the Swede Anders Lind, became a kind of military advisor to Pomare I.

In February 1826 Captain Frederick Beechey in HMS Blossom found parts of the wreck of the Matilda on the northern shore of Mururoa.
MOALA (“Mywolla”) Island on the western side of the southern Fijis, considered"

Perhaps we should look to America for any decendants of Matthew Weatherhead.. who ever his parents were.. brothers and sisters in Britian.

I am still not certain where Captain Thomas Weatherhead got to after he ran agroung at Sow & Pigs & the ship the Phoenix 11 was turned into a Hulk
or prison for harden criminals & transported them on to Moreton Bay Penal Settlement [ City of Brisbane today] and Norfolk Island.. Pitcairn?? LOL
what a strange world it is.. {Pamela}

Uganda Solar Lamps | Koru Foundation

Uganda Solar Lamps Koru Foundation: "The Project Plan:
Barefoot Technologies India will import half-watt solar lamps into Uganda and will carry out trainings to their usage and maintenance. 800 lamps will be provided free to the disabled, those suffering from leprosy, and the very poorest, as lighting is a very serious problem for them. A further 350 lamps will be sold to returning IDP’s at a subsidised price."

Relief Rain & So the Grass does Grow

Some of my Armorillas are back in bloom, must be the rain that brings the flowers on to

bloom, & not the time of year as they bloom any season when it rains..but the most flowers will come on in Spring & Autumn..