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Hi everyone here are some interesting facts about Aboriginal Culture

Aboriginals are the first know human inhabitants of the Australian continent and its nearby islands

Traditional Aboriginal music is played on the Didgeridoo

Music and dance is a very important part of Aboriginal customs, there is a song and dance for every occasion, including songs for hunting, ancestors, landscapes, animals, seasons, myths, and dreamtime legends.

Aboriginals believe that they don't own this land the land owns them

The Dreamtime is the Aboriginal understanding of the world, of it's creation and its stories and the beginning of knowledge

Boomerangs are used as weapons especially for hunting and fighting

Uluru, or Ayers Rock is a Sacred Aboriginal Site for the Aboriginal people of Anangu, there is a sacred traditional Dreamtime track that runs around it



Thursday, October 28, 2010

Great Migrations Global Event on National Geographic Channel

Hi,
Great Migrations Global Event on National Geographic Channel http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ "Inspiring people to care about the Planet"

I have just posted a link to the Nat Geo website, if you click on the link it will take you to straight to their site and if you scroll down you can click on the link to the Great Migrations show link where you can check out all the episodes that are coming up, videos, info about the animals featured and games!! The Global TV event they are hosting starts on the 7th November 2010 and is all about the migration patterns of different species across the world. It will be watched by an estimated 330 million people and took hours of filming, on land, by air and in the sea, all in HD.

If you haven't already seen it advertised on the Channel go to website to check timings for where you are in the world, in Australia it starts at 7pm, the first show is called "Born to move and follows Monarch butterflies, wilderbeasts and Sperm Whales as they make the same journeys their ancestors have made for generations.

The adverts for the show look amazing and I think it will be well worth watching, let me know if you manage to catch it and what you think of it and I will definately be putting up some posts on up and coming stuff from the Nat Geo site and Channel, its a favourite in our house, Nat especially loves Nat Geo Wild! He is quite the mind for all sorts of info on all kinds of wierd and wonderful creatures and often comes out with lots of random stuff about animals, normally from his seat in the back of the car! he is especially into watching the Snake programs at the moment so we know alot about them! Speaking of which we saw a massive and extreamely long and I mean extreamely long shedded snake skin on the side of the road on our way to school today, gruesome!!

Oh, and I am doing an experiment at the moment in Science all about Sea Monkeys, intriguing little creatures, so I will fill you in on my findings and tell you what I learn about them!!
Adios, au revoir and all that is foreign in saying bye!!

lots of love Katexx
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