The continent of Australia sat virtually undiscovered, unnoticed, and unclaimed, by the European powers until the 1600s, with Willem Janszoon, a Dutch navigator and colonial governor, making the first recorded European landing on the western side of Cape York peninsular in February, 1606. Spanish explorer, Luis Váez de Torres, sailed through the same area just…
Time travel, sailing ships and dirty water have been on my mind a lot lately! I remember playing cowboys and Indians as a boy (terribly politically incorrect of me, I know) and wishing that I lived in the old west, but I’m pretty sure now that I would have found it hard to survive. No…
Well may we ask! I was playing around setting up WordPress on another domain when I thought it might be an idea to check the settings on Coffee With Allan, when I realized that it was quite a number of months since I’d posted here! Consternation! Confusion! Head Shaking! Then came the realization that apart…
I’ve been reading a lot of Will Durant’s writing lately, and I must say that he fascinates me. Today’s quote comes from him, “The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds..” I’m guessing that if a herd of cattle were stampeding towards…
