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1. You should know that... The First Fleet didn't actually arrive on the 26 January The First Fleet, the group of ships which left England to create a penal colony abroad, actually arrived in Botany Bay somewhere between the 18th and 20th of January 1788. Source: GIPHY After landing, settlers wanted to relocate in the hope of finding a more suitable area to construct their colony. They travelled to Sydney Cove on 25 January and the next morning, on the 26th, Sir Arthur Phillip and a small entourage of marines and officers claimed the land in the name of King George III. Related Reading

Olympic meeting Representatives of the Lake Placid Olympic Committee will meet in Washington with representatives of a congressional study committee on physical fitness to discuss the village’s bid for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games. The meeting is a result of a letter sent by the LPOC to President Richard Nixon. Lake Placid sports director and Olympic Committee member Rev. J. Bernard Fell received a call last Thursday from Michael Harrigan of the president’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, who said the meeting will occur during the first two weeks in January. Mr. Fell said Lake...

Forty years after her death, people still imitate Mae West’s voice: that slinky contralto drawl that hit each Brooklyn-inflected vowel like a cab driver leaning on his horn. The voice would be memorable even if she had by some wild mischance wound up playing dowagers and spinster aunts. Thank goodness this plush-figured goddess of stage and screen is instead in the pantheon of great American one-line comedians. “She always played herself” is wielded as a put-down for the stars of classic Hollywood, to say sure, they were memorable, but they weren’t real actors. It’s usually a bogus...

>> and now, back to the play. >> george, can we take five minutes? my stomach's a little -- >> no, i'm good. >> i see an absolute parallel between what they were doing in 2017 on broadway -- >> enjoy the play. >> and what weber and fields created in the early 1900s, the basic concept of the comedy team. >> hey, keep a big cc from the paper. >> weber and fields gave us a lot of what we think of as the identifiable marks of a comedy team. they invented slapstick, ethnic jokes, and pie in the face. >> pretty much anybody doing comedy in vaudeville at the turn of the century more or less was in a ...

>> oh, hello. >> it was just a broadway show last year with john mulaney and nick kroll called "oh, hello". >> and now, back to the play. >> george, can we take five minutes? my stomach's a little -- >> no, i'm good. >> i see an absolute parallel between what they were doing in 2017 on broadway -- >> enjoy the play. >> and what weber and fields created in the early 1900s, the basic concept of the comedy team. >> hey, keep a big cc from the paper. >> weber and fields gave us a lot of what we think of as the identifiable marks of a comedy team. they invented slapstick, ethnic jokes, and pie in t...