Margarets has been a work in progress over many years by the Reverend H. D. Dennis who was born in Rolling Fork, Mississippi in 1916. The min building has a long verandah fronted by a scattering of signs and sculptures across the front of the block. To one side is a jumbled and half-built, half-wrecked and slowly collapsing tower and an old bus which served, or may still serve, as a Chapel from which the good Reverend H D Dennis preaches.
The First Presbyterian Church at Port Gibson was built by the Reverend Zebulon Butler, who had the unfortunate distinction of also being the subject of its first service - his funeral.
In this paper on the local knowledge and belief systems about the Pangolin in Tanzania in east Africa Martin Walsh of Canbridge University in the UK discusses the role that Pangolin sightings and behaviour have in local environmental and political events
New Orleans 4 years ago - there was no water purification equipment on site, no chemical toilets, no antibiotics and no anti-diarrheals stored for a crisis. There were no designated medical staff at work in the evacuation center.
Spinifex Pigeons are Australian endemics and superbly adapted to life in the Australian arid zone. Their cryptic plumage means that they blend into the rocky ridges and red soils that are their favoured breeding and foraging habitats.
My favourite stage race is obviously the Tour de France - it really pushes you to extremes to get the work done. And there was one particular Paris-Roubaix, probably the 2001 race, where it was extremely muddy, really treacherous...and there are pictures that you know you will live with forever.
This is a song from the Saltwater Band from Elcho Island in north-east Arnhem Land from a couple of years ago - Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was an obvious standout in the band and destined for the many great things he has recently achieved.
Often as not now I shed a quiet tear when I hear this - a testament to Paul's power with words and notes - I'd love to hear how other people react to it...
Behind, beside and in front of us all is chaos. Hurtling at over 100 km/h down a steep, narrow and windy road through the Adelaide Hills. In front is a car with half-a-man's body poking through the sun-roof - his arms are waving wildly and he is yelling into a hand-radio.
The Luurn (Red-backed Kingfisher) Tjukurrpa is of prime importance to the groups of the western deserts region, since it represents one expression of a major initiation cycle, Tingarri, a Law bequeathed to them by Luurn and other ancestral beings.
