Rewind retro video of the day... From Melbourne, Australia, here are Real Life with their 1983 single Send Me an Angel from their debut album Heartland. Chart rankings: #29 in the US, #19 in Spain, #18 in Canada, #9 in Austria, #6 in Australia, #2 in Switzerland, and #1 in Germany and New Zealand. Besides Send Me an Angel, Real Life also had hits with Catch Me Im Falling (83) and God Tonight (90). The first recorded European sighting and landfall of the Australian continent took place in 1606 by the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon and named it New Holland. English explorer and privateer William Dampier also landed in New Holland in 1688 and again in 1699. In 1770, James Cook mapped the east coast and named it New South Wales, which he claimed for Britain. With the loss of the American colonies in 1783, the British Empire was looking for a place to get rid of its convicts. In 1783 the British First Fleet, under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip, was ordered to establish a colony at Botany Bay, but since it offered neither a secure anchorage nor a source of fresh water, he went further north and established a penal colony at Sydney Bay (named after the British Home Secretary, Thomas Townshend, Lord Sydney) in 1788. Botany Bay, though, became the common name for the established penal colony back in England. Other penal colonies were established, including Port Arthur (in Van Diemens Land, now Tasmania) and Norfolk Island (loosely located between Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia). Then after the 1992 - 96 Eugenics War, Khan Noonien Singh escaped with his 84 Augment followers on the SS Botany Bay, only to be discovered in 2267 by the USS Enterprise... oh, wait. This alternative reality never took place, at least on our Earth. Sorry about that. After the discovery of the American continents, many Europeans believed there must be another continent in the southern hemisphere, variously named as Unknown South Land or Terra Australis Incognita. English explorer Matthew Flinders was the first to circumnavigate the continent in 1803, using the name Australia to describe it. youtube/watch?v=jCHE0Tjw6MA
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 02:03:39 +0000
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