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The Wild Australia Show was a troupe of Indigenous Australian performers that toured Australia during 1892 and 1893. The performers were recruited by Archibald Meston and his business partner with the aim of embarking on a world tour concluding at Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition. The performers' motivations for joining the tour are unknown; scholars have suggested that some may have been kidnapped or coerced, while others may have sought an escape from the violent Queensland frontier. Inspired by the ethnological expositions and Wild West shows popular during the era, the troupe's performances included dances, corroborees, and scenes inspired by the Australian frontier wars. The troupe ultimately performed in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, but ran out of funds and was abandoned by Meston before leaving the country. The performers were photographed during their tour by several of the country's leading photographers, with many of these photographs eventually becoming widely reproduced. (Full article...)
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On this day: August 9
August 9: International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples; National Women's Day in South Africa (1956)
- 1821 – A statue of the Polynesian god A'a was presented to members of the London Missionary Society on the south Pacific island of Ra'iatea.
- 1902 – In a ceremony at Westminster Abbey, Edward VII and Alexandra were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor and Empress of India.
- 1960 – Led by Albert Kalonji, South Kasai declared its unilateral secession from the Republic of the Congo.
- 2018 – A civilian school bus in Dahyan, Yemen, was bombed by Saudi forces, killing at least 40 children.
- 2023 – Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated in Quito, eleven days before the general election.
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Knowledge about Earth
Facts and Figures
- Age of Earth: ~ 4.568 billion years
- World Population: 7.3 billion (July 2015)
- Continents: 7 (Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia)
- Mean Radius: 6371.0 km
- Axial Tilt: 23,44°
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Our Solar System
Our solar system consists of
1 star (Sun) and 8 planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune).
- 1 AU (astronomical unit) is roughly the distance between Earth and the Sun (about 150 million kilometres).
- The space probe Voyager 1 was launched by the NASA in 1977 and is meanwhile (autumn 2015) about 133 AU away from Earth.
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Why you should extend your general knowledge:
There are many reasons why one should or wants to extend his knowledge.
First you should consider that "general knowledge" is knowledge which a group of humans - who belong together regional, temporal or otherwise - owns. Thus, it describes a basic understanding of specific categories of knowledge.
As the English philosopher Francis Bacon said before: "Wisdom is Power" [Bacon 1597].