The iconic line 'This is Australia' was almost left out of Sounds of Then
By Mawunyo Gbogbo
Graham "Buzz" Bidstrup intervened to ensure the classic line "This is Australia" remained in the song Sounds of Then (This is Australia). He tells this and many other stories about the Australian music industry in his new memoir No Secrets.
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Graham "Buzz" Bidstrup intervened to ensure the classic line "This is Australia" remained in the song Sounds of Then (This is Australia). He tells this and many other stories about the Australian music industry in his new memoir No Secrets.
📖 **Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem**
"_Across an array of languages and archives, from textual and artistic to material and archaeological, Kedar maps the contours of the kingdom's culture or, more accurately, its cultures. The Kingdom of Jerusalem was small, but the diversity of its population had no counterpart anywhere in the medieval West_"
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Cultures of the Medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem is a revelatory portrait of the Frankish Levant at the time of the Crusades. Following victory in the First Crusade in 1099, the newcomers from Europe,...
I’m VERY approachable. I know this because I’m approached a lot. I don’t know what it is, but I had a kid hug me in a store, a woman ask me for help with the qr code on her phone while in line to ship a package, and weekly I have someone ask me to get something off the top shelf at the grocery store. These are just the recent ones.
But never once have I been approached to join anyone’s cult [...] https://uxbrad.com/activity/20250824/094601/
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🎙️ 🇺🇸 📖 **Timothy Messer-Kruse, "Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution" (LSU Press, 2024)**
"_While historians have generally acknowledged that patriot leaders assembled in response to postwar economic chaos, the threat of popular insurgencies, and the inability of the states to agree on how to fund the national government, Timothy Messer-Kruse suggests that scholars have discounted Americans' desire to compel Britain to return fugitives from slavery as a driving force behind the convention._"
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Happy national holidays! 🇺🇦
Today, on August 23, the Ukrainian people celebrate National Flag Day. And tomorrow, on August 24, they mark the Independence Day. It is a perfect time to read non-fiction books about Ukraine! But what are the best ones? No worries! You already got answer: scientific works, written by a 🇺🇦 historian Vitaliy Galganets!
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