"The man who chases two rabbits, catches neither."
Bra beach closed as tar balls are everywhere
Council jetskis spotted a suspected oil slick out at sea on Wednesday morning, the Randwick council mayor, Dylan Parker, said. However, it was not yet confirmed.
Thousands of black golf ball-sized pieces of debris that washed up on the sand and forced the closure of two Sydney beaches have been confirmed as “tar balls”.
Coogee beach was closed on Tuesday and Gordons Bay beach was closed on Wednesday with beachgoers warned not to touch or go near the “mysterious black, ball-shaped debris”.
Randwick council said on Wednesday evening that “preliminary test results … show the material is a hydrocarbon-based pollutant which is consistent with the makeup of tar balls”.
Mystery debris that closed two Sydney beaches confirmed to be thousands of ‘tar balls’
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When Did the Roman Empire Fall? Antigone
When in Rome, do as the Romans do(Medieval Latin: Sī fuerīs Rōmae, Rōmānō vīvitō mōre; sī fuerīs alibī, vīvitō sīcut ibī), often shortened to when in Rome..., is a proverbattributed to Saint Ambrose. The proverb means that it is best to follow the traditions or customs of a place being visited. A later version reads when in Rome, do as the Pope does.
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In 1915, the Scottish historian John Buchan began The History of the Great War, his magisterial 24-volume narrative of the First World War, while serving on the Western Front. He began the first volume by noting that history as we know it was an invention of the prior century. Poring over documents and diaries was a novelty: ‘Historians almost exclusively chronicled events of which they had been spectators.’
In the last 365 days, at least two dozen books have been published in English and Hebrew about the massacres of 7 October, along with endless reams of commentary. Commentary cannot quite fulfill the task of history, in that proximity precludes objectivity. But a year later, in the aftermath of that slaughter, any observer of the Middle East can sense that the region is at the start of a reckoning that has been long in the making.
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My Life Elsewhere is a collaborative community that allows you to compare the country you live in with other countries around the world. We’ll show you various statistics that differentiate your country from others, including cost of living, geographic size, and more. If you moved to another country, what would your life be like?
