Post(card) History: Episode 3

Welcome to Adelaide, South Australia. If you always wondered what a bus looks like in Adelaide, this one's for you.

Adelaide History is littered with firsts, including:

1854: First public animal-powered railway in Australia opened, between Goolwa and Port Elliot.

1867: First croquet club in Australia formed at Kapunda.

1891:Cremation was legalized, an Australian first.

1938:The first talking fire alarm in the world was installed at Woodville.

A talking fire alarm yesterday.

Sources:

http://www.history.sa.gov.au/history/sa_history/sa_firsts.htm

www.flickr.com/.../in/set-72157601849831831/

Post(card) History: Episode 2

As you might notice, this is the 'popular' bowling green in sunny Mildura, about 4 hours north west of Melbourne. The town's 'unpopular' bowling green, located across the tracks on the the other side of town, recently raised their beer prices by 20 cents.

There seems to be some debate about the highest recorded temperature in Mildura, with 47.2 degrees celsius recorded on January 10, 1939. It might have reached 50.8 degrees once but no one there can tell me exactly when. Seems they were all at the popular bowling green knocking back some cheap beers..

^some Milduran meterologists yesterday. source: www.bom.gov.au/weather/vic/mildura/history.shtml

Post(card) History

Photo: ©Helgi Árnason
Sigurður Guðmundsson appears to have been considering the resurrection of the Icelandic women's costume as early as his student years in Copenhagen. When he returned to Iceland for good in 1858, he soon started work on designing a new costume, which he felt was a reflection of the spirit of the costumes that Icelandic women had worn from the early days of Icelandic history.
The skautbúningur came into being in 1858-60. The oldest extant example of a skautbúningur was made in the first half of 1860 by Sigurlaug Gunnarsdóttir, wife of Ólafur Sigurðsson of Ás, Hegranes in north Iceland, who was a relative of Sigurður's. Letters from Ólafur to Sigurður are preserved, in which he requests patterns and more detailed instructions on the sewing of the new costume. These are the principal sources for the history of the design.
(source: http://www.buningurinn.is)

Post(card) History

Lamington National Park in Southern Queensland was named after Charles Cochrane-Baillie the 2nd Baron Lamington who was the Governor of Queensland from 1896 until 1901. He also gave his name to the Lamington, a ripper cake dipped in chocolate and covered in coconut, or as the Gov preferred to call them:"those bloody poofy woolly biscuits".