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Originally Posted by Aliantha
1776 - The year captain cook (after a few others) discovered Australia.
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And the year a conversation in Whitehall (or was it Windsor?) went something like this:
"King George?... Your Majesty? There's something in from the American colonies that you should see: this document that begins 'When in the Course of Human Events...' They've gone to some trouble -- engrossed it on parchment -- lots of signatures on the bottom. Any idea who this John Hancock may be? He rather leaps to the eye."