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...the bird flu is now confirmed as the virulent H5N1 strain.
...that after suffering, Foot & Mouth, blue tongue and floods. East England, East Anglia have now been struck with the H5 strain of bird flu and further tests are being carried out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7091284.stm
that explains why I get paid in celery thenDid you know in the days of the roman empire the legionerre's pay was partly paid in salt.... and thats where the word salary comes from
Did you know in the days of the roman empire the legionerre's pay was partly paid in salt.... and thats where the word salary comes from
but Cook himself never lived in it...the cottage in which Captain Cook's parents lived in the 1750's, in Yorkshire, England was brought to Australia brick by brick and reassembled in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne.
http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm?top=39&pg=625
but Cook himself never lived in it(according to ABC show)
As you say, he never lived in it, but did stay there whilst visiting, so it would seem. I suppose that's good enough: http://www.captcook-ne.co.uk/ccne/timeline/earlylife.htm
Interesting, that Captain Cook had 6 children, all of whom died without issue.
After a month's stay, Cook got under sail again to resume his exploration of the Northern Pacific. However, shortly after leaving the Big Island, the foremast on the Resolution broke requiring the ships' return to Kealakekua Bay for repairs. The return to the islands by Cook's expedition was unexpected on the part of the Hawaiians and as the season of Lono had recently ended, tensions rose and a number of quarrels broke out between the two camps. On February 14 at Kealakekua Bay, some Hawaiians stole one of Cook's small boats. Normally, as thefts were quite common in Tahiti and the other islands, Cook would have taken hostages until the stolen articles were returned.[2] Indeed, he planned to take hostage the Chief of Hawaii, Kalaniopu'u. .....
...... In the ensuing skirmish, shots were fired at the Hawaiians but their woven war shields protected them, and Cook's men had to retreat to the beach. As Cook turned his back to help launch the boats, he was struck on the head by the villagers and then stabbed to death as he fell on his face in the surf.[11] The Hawaiians dragged his body away. Four of the Marines with Cook were also killed and two wounded in the confrontation.
............. Coupled with a jaded grasp of native diplomacy and a burgeoning but limited understanding of local politics, Cook may have inadvertently contributed to the tensions that ultimately conspired in his demise. However, as noted above[10], the theory linking Cook and Lono has been questioned by historians.
The esteem in which he was nevertheless held by the natives resulted in his body being retained by their chiefs and elders .............eventually returned to the British for a formal burial at sea following an appeal by the crew.[12]
Clerke took over the expedition and made a final attempt to pass through the Bering Strait. Resolution and Discovery returned home in 1780. Cook's account of his voyage was completed by Captain James King.
This was the only armed takeoever of an Australian governmentA number of the junior officers who served under Cook went on to distinctive accomplishments of their own.
William Bligh, Cook's sailing master (on Resolution) , was given command of HMS Bounty in 1787 to sail to Tahiti and return with breadfruit. Bligh is most known for the mutiny of his crew which resulted in his being set adrift in 1789. (See: Mutiny on the Bounty). He later became governor of New South Wales, where he was also the subject of another mutiny — the only successful armed takeover of an Australian colonial government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bligh Many years after the Bounty mutiny, he was appointed Governor of New South Wales, with a brief to clean up the corrupt rum trade of the NSW Corps. This culminated in the Rum Rebellion led by Major George Johnston working closely with John Macarthur.
Although Bligh does not write such passages, I see no reason why he should not have agreed with them. He would certainly have agreed with another one: 'It has ever been a maxim with me to punish the least crimes any of my people have commited against these uncivilized Nations, their robing us with impunity is by no means a sufficient reason why we should treat them in the same manner';17 nor, to leave Cook's own words, is there any reason to tolerate gratuitous violence towards them. Hence the punishment visited by both Cook and Bligh on any piece of brutality committed upon an islander by a seaman, not only that of 'striking an Indian chief””punishment sometimes deplored by the victims. But 'a strict regard to justice' made the islanders themselves subject to some control, or attempted control, and the lash was used on them too. We must not, in our own humanitarianism, underestimate the problem, and flogging was better than shooting. Chiefs sometimes urged on the process; but chiefs could be cruel to their subjects in a fashion that shocked the British””for instance, in Tonga. Nevertheless it was Cook who, driven beyond endurance by the problem of theft, Ton
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gan or Tahitian indifference to his own principle of 'strict honisty', on his third voyage, began to impose floggings and ear-cropping and arm-slashing and destruction of canoes that seriously disquieted some of his officers. If Bligh had been the responsible commander, this would have come down in tradition as brutality. It seemed out of character. On one occasion, we know, it disquieted himself; for with him the other side of 'strict honisty' was 'gentle treatment'. Again I think we can see Bligh learning from Cook, and alas! improving on him; and it is perhaps significant that the Cook he observed was the Cook of the third voyage. Bligh was not going to have his men assaulting the islanders, he believed in the principles of strict honesty and gentle treatment, he was diplomatic and agreeable in his own conduct””until he thought it was time to make an example. But the example””theft again was the reason””of 'one hundred lashes, severely given, and from thence into Irons', 18 seems a little excessive, even though a chief had urged Bligh to kill the man. On the whole, I think, Cook and Bligh would each assert that he had tried to maintain an even-handed justice. Bligh might possibly have been a little more convinced that he had succeeded.
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