Re: [GZG] [OT] Army Life

On 1/12/06, Robert N Bryett <rbryett@mail.com> wrote:

> Specifically it refers to the Brisbane Ekka, AKA the Royal Queensland
> Show, which was founded in 1875 as the Queensland Intercolonial
> Exhibition. Like the Royal Easter Show down here in New South Wales,
> the Ekka is a huge agricultural show with competitions for prize
> bulls etc. Along with the annual "B & S Ball", it's a landmark of the
> rural year...

Oh, rather like a State Fair, then?

John
--
"Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and again.  We're looking for thousands of Persians."
--Vita Aureliani

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