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...couple's journey will soon come to an end in Darwin, where they plan to split up. "The trip hasn't been a financial success," O'Brien says. "But life on the road has been a great learning experience. Australians care. We go out of our way to help people in need. In that regard, we've got it so right...
...free spirit and quite the pilgrim for most of her life, Shell Biles settled in Gerringong six years ago. She was looking for a place that wasn't as hot as Darwin or as cold as Launceston, and no way could she cope in a metropolis like Sydney. One thing she liked about Gerringong was that, at the time, none of the big fast-food chains had a presence here. Those kinds of outlets . . . well, they're just...
...closing time at the local pub, and the main street of Borroloola, 730 km southeast of Darwin, has erupted in a series of drunken brawls. Spilling from the beer garden, heavily intoxicated Aborigines hurl cans, stones and abuse ("F___ you, c___, I'll kill you") at each other. At the hostel across the road, guests watching the communal television barely flinch. "We are so used to it now," says owner Trish Elmy, who sometimes puts up a barrier of water sprinklers to deter the mob from fighting near-or collapsing in-her property. "We know nothing gets done, so what...
...DIED. Harriet, 175, a giant tortoise said to have been brought from the Gal?pagos Islands by Charles Darwin and believed to be the world's oldest animal in captivity; near Brisbane. Although dna tests indicate the beloved resident of Queensland's Australia Zoo was at least over 170, her precise age, provenance and even sex have been disputed?for more than a century, the 150-kg grand dame was mistakenly called Harry...
Roosevelt began to collect animal specimens, including fireflies and squirrels. He filled his notebooks with drawings and life histories of animals and insects, such as the common black ant, and then read Darwin and Huxley, who helped him ponder how Homo sapiens coexisted with the so-called lesser creatures. When the American Museum of Natural History unpacked 2,200 mounted creatures from the collection of the Verreaux brothers, French naturalists, the unabashed young Theodore donated his own mounted menagerie--a bat and 12 mice...