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Bits & Pieces Ancient Egyptians in Australia? Having
just read Fred Blakeley's book - Lasseter's Dream of Millions - I was
struck by the reference to two graves having about two ton of stone
on each of them. There was distinctly some order; the stones were in rows
and kept fairly level. At one end there was smooth large black stone; very
flat and standing on its edge. He
also mentions the sand people - a much lighter coloured Aborigine that
lived in the area - that worshipped some kind of God. A Rabbi scientist
who spent time studying these people (pre 1932) concluded that they used
19 ancient Jewish words in their ordinary everyday language. I
was also aware of an internet article by Paul White - 1996 in which he
details a discovery of a cave in the Hunter Valley in which approximately
250 hieroglyphs are carved. They appear to be in the archaic style of the
early dynasties, which translated, tell of shipwreck and travels across a
strange and hostile world. As
the Old Testament is taken from Egyptian and other mythology it is
feasible that the ancient Jewish words could be in fact ancient Egyptian. A
white stone, carved as a scarab, has been found in SW Qld. Does anyone
have any updates on these stories? John. Queensland Interesting
links with ancient Egypt. Could be a load of crap but you never know.
Andrew In 1981 I was talking to an older man in Bendigo, Victoria about my
move to North Central Arnhem Land to work with an Aboriginal Community,
and he told me about some of his travels into outback Northern South
Australia in the late '60s through the '70s to visit a remote
Aboriginal Community (every couple of years) somewhere around the
top of Lake Eyre. In this Community there was a meeting area and in
the middle of it was a huge vertebrae bone from a Dinosaur. After a couple
of visits the people took him to a nearby cave to show him some paintings,
one of the paintings was of a fully robed Egyptian woman and others of
similar things. On one visit in the late '70s the huge bone was
missing and the people were quite agitated when he asked about the cave
and eventually he was taken to the cave to find a big hole in the wall
where the Egyptian woman had been, it had been cut out with some sort of
saw. He was told that some Americans had He
also told me he had seen a similar painting in a cave in Central West
Victoria somewhere near the Grampians. I don't know how true all this is
but is as was told to me and reading the article brought it back to
me. Ian. ...Tyre
tubes My
mate and I drove down from Sydney to Adelaide where we linked up and
headed north. When we pulled over to camp, one of the tyres started going
down. We changed tyres and stopped at Port Augusta to have it
fixed. The bloke at the local Tyrepower went over it and found the
leak very quickly. All he had to do was look for the label inside the
tubeless tyre Shorty was running with a tube, and there was the cause of
the leak. The label inside the tyre wears a hole in a tube as the
tube remains stationary within the tyre EXCEPT where the label is. Apparently,
Tyrepower in Port Augusta has changed many leaking tubes in vehicles which
have just arrived from Sydney with the label still in the tyre. So watch
out, if you fit a tube inside a tubeless tyre, remember to remove ALL
labels from the inside of the tyre or prepare to mend a flat. Graham. I
felt as one with poor Shorty on reading about the tyre label wearing,
through his inner tube. I had four new tyres put on my newly purchased
second hand 80 Series LandCruiser. Within a few weeks I had my first flat,
in inner Melbourne at peak hour I might add, lucky I had my son with me to
help with the wheel change. I learned from the repairer that it was the
tyre label that did it, the first time I had heard of the phenomenon. It
took little imagination to realize that there were three more flats
waiting to happen. Sure enough, two more happened relatively soon after.
The fourth, mercifully, never happened but the threat hung over me for the
couple of years it took for the tyre to wear out. Innocuous looking, the
little white hard plastic number label with sharp corners is removed by
reliable tyre dealers before fitting. I ask every time now that they not
be left on and I am met with responses that range from amazement at my
fastidiousness through to insult that I should even feel the need to ask.
Unfortunately we can’t always go to our regular and trusted dealer in
these circumstances, so just be aware and remember to ask. Perhaps the
more progressive tyre makers have already found a better labeling method.
David.
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