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Re: I'm so proud of my country.

Posted By: wintermute, on host 80.46.147.241
Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 02:20:36
In Reply To: Re: I'm so proud of my country. posted by bandaids on Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 18:34:28:

> Ooo. Good thing to use as current events tomorrow in history class. On a sort of related subject, I just learned yesterday that New Zealand was one of the first countries who had workers compensation. One of those things you just learn when you're supposed to be working on something else.
>
> ~x~Band-"Wonder what else they've done..."Aids~x~

They were the first country in the world to introduce an 8-hour working day, they had the British Empire's first female mayor (Elizabeth Yates, Mayor of Onehunga, 1894), but perhaps most importantly, they invented the automatic sheep-shearer.

wintermute

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Re: I'm so proud of my country. - Etienne - Fri, 3/14/2003, 06:41:08
Re: I'm so proud of my country. - Brunnen-G - Wed, 3/12/2003, 10:54:12
- Re: I'm so proud of my country. - Howard - Wed, 3/12/2003, 11:16:12

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