Australia. Guide to Australia

‘United States’

Сувeнирный мaгaзин, not available in the building of the Russian Empire, removed from the product 200   Our part with the strategy Baraka Obamy. The items were made on the occasion of the PLANNED visit of the Us President to Australia;, which was cancelled at the last moment due to a disaster on a drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico.

In the name of the President of the United States, in bold on cups, the extra letter r crept in.: Barrack - in English "barracks". Error attributed to some Australian official, who ordered this design.

Two cups worth 10 Australian bucks still had time to embody before, how they found the typo. As stated by the Secretary of the Australian Parliament Alan Thompson, his staff received a "valuable lesson". According to Thompson, next time, if Barack Obama plans to come to the country, it won't happen again.

Barack Obama cancels visit to Greeny Continent for 2nd time. Earlier this came out because of delays in approving the reform of the American health care system.

The development of Australian English began mainly after the termination of the expulsion of convicts in the English colonies in North America. This punishment was practiced in the British penal system, until the War of Independence United States.

The search for other places of detention were not successful, a contingent of prisoners, which was kept on barges, moored to the banks of the Thames, steadily increased. In these circumstances the British government approved a plan to send convicts to Botany Bay in New South Wales.

First Flotilla under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip sailed from England in May 1787 and arrived in Botany Bay in January 1788. Phillip did not like this place, and he soon found a little farther to the north of the harbor another. The landing was carried out in the bay area in Sydney, known as Port Jackson, and there started work on clearing the area and the construction of houses.

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During World War II, Australia joined forces with the UK. Australians participated in the defense of Africa and in the air 'Battle of Britain'. After the defeat of the British-Australian-novozelanskih troops in Greece and Crete in 1941 Australians began to demand greater autonomy of its contingent and refrain from participating in risky operations. So, at the critical moment of defense of Tobruk Australian troops were evacuated from the city.

After the entry of Japan into the war and the surrender of the British-Australian troops in Singapore, Australia, the situation became critical. Britain could not support it.

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