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I used to be a Tibetan Buddhist, you know? (David Bowie 1997) I have always followed some of the tenets of Buddhism, especially the one about change. What came from my Buddhist bumblings is that change is our river. I keep coming back to that, and it means an awful lot to me. (David Bowie) David Bowie, Tibet House, 26 February 2001. Contents Impermanence Chronology References ----------------- Impermanence From the age of 13 and through to his early twenties a young boy from Bromley, England, Davey Jones - later to be known as David Bowie (1947 - 2016) - was intrigued by Tibetan Buddhism. So intrigued, in fact, that he was very close to committing to life as a monk. The Sixties countercultural revolution - comprising a heady mix of sex, drugs, rock 'n roll, philosophical meanderings and avant garde experimentation in the arts - put paid to that, and whilst he did not go that far, he remained close to the Free Tibet! movement and Buddhism throughout his l...

Drive in car: Taking a trip? Bronson on bike: Yeah. Driver: Where to? Bronson: I don't know. Wherever I end up, I guess..... Then Came Bronson  was an American TV show which originally aired on NBC at 9pm on Wednesday nights between 24 March 1969 and 1 April 1970 as a 98 minute long pilot movie and 26 subsequent 50 minute episodes. The pilot was released outside of America in cinemas. The present writer remembers watching it on Australian TV as a 15-16 year old in the years immediately following. It was seen by many as a very cool version of the hit cinematic release Easy Rider , though it had been conceived, and the pilot aired, prior to the release of that film. In the Bronson case it was the story of a single person - Jim Bronson - travelling around the US on a red Harley Davidson Sportster 1968-9 XLH900 motorcycle, wearing only a blue woolen cap, searching for the meaning of life after the death of a close friend. Starring Michael Parks (1940-2017), it developed a cult ...

Paul Edmund Strzelecki : Adelong 1840 | In Australia 1839-43 | Stamps & Covers | In Australia (video) | W.B. Clarke | Eugene von Guerard print 1866 | Paul Edmund Strzelecki c.1845. Contents Who was first? Chronology McMillan Dinner Macarthur's reply References ----------------- Abstract : During February - March 1840 the Paul Edmund Strzelecki - James Macarthur expedition to Wilson's Promontory on the west coast of Victoria passed through Adelong. After reaching and naming Mount Kosciusko it went on to encounter the then unnamed Gippsland region, and finally on to Melbourne. Controversy subsequently arose in 1856 concerning the claim to "discovery of Gippsland" by Angus McMillan. Macarthur subsequently intervened to put forward a claim on the part of himself and Strzelecki. The Strzelecki - Macarthur personal and profession connection was emphasised during a brief stay in the Adelong region of New South Wales whil...

B2 bomber, Diego Garcia, 2006. Contents Stupid decision Chronology Alien base References ------------------- Q: Why, on 20 March 2026, did Iran [allegedly] send two of its, until then top secret and publically denied, long-range ballistic missiles 4,000 kilometres across the Indian Ocean to the island of Diego Garcia? Ans.: Because it is the most import United States military base on the planet! 1. "Stupid decision" Diego Garcia is a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. It is also the most important United States military base outside of America. Why? Well, that's a secret ...... It is also the main island in the Chagos Archipelago , or Chagos Islands group, being seven atolls comprising sixty islands. This uninhabited, isolated area of the Indian Ocean was discovered by Portuguese explorers in 1512 and later claimed by the French in 1715. Since 1814 it has been claimed as the property of the United Kingdom, being as it was uninhabite...

Australia: Airmail 1931 | Australia in Space 2024 | Commemorative PPEs | Rare Covers | Souvenir Covers 1970-1997 + Varieties | Souvenirs Covers 1997+ | World Youth Day 2008 | WWF 50 Years | Postage Paid Australia, 14 November 1934. 1. Postage Paid Australia The words Postage Paid Australia , or an earlier equivalent such as Paid at Sydney , have appeared on letters and parcels posted in Australia since the earliest days of centralised, official postal services in the second half of the nineteenth century when stamps first appeared (1 January 1850) and prior to the proclamation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 through federation of the various states. Postage Page Sydney, 10 December 1901. Location-specific postage paid machine postmark, Sydney, 14 April 1965. In 2026 the words can be seen as postmarks, on blank envelopes, postcards, maxicards, aerogrammes, stamped envelopes, a variety of Australia Post covers, as gummed or sticky ...