The earliest british settlement in australia was in which area

Although a number of things brought about world war one there was one even that push to europe over the edge. what was that event?

What former head of the cuban secret service was charged with protecting the country's prime minister for nearly 50 years?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is