Craig Havighurst posted a blog postTamworth: extremely south by ever so incredibly southwestCross posted from my String Theory Media blog. On January 26, 1788, a cadre of British sailors and naval officers rowed ashore in a bay they’d named Sydney and claimed the Eastern seaboard of Australia in the name of the King of England. Ah, imperialism. Life was so simple then. Apparently (and when I say that it usually means I’ve consulted Wikipedia), the mission was to establish a penal colony – a move made necessary by the loss of a certain chunk of ground near and dear to us Americans called, um, ... Read More