Chinese students performing a Japanese cosplay song & dance to welcome the incoming Freshman. This is the Cosplay Club!
The skeleton of a victim from one of Australia’s most famous shipwrecks has been unearthed by archaeologists.
The remains on Beacon Island, off Western Australia, date from the wreck of the Dutch East India ship the Batavia in 1629.
In the aftermath of the disaster, more than 100 survivors were murdered by a group of mutineers.
Maritime experts hope the latest find will shed new light on the episode.
The wreck site was first discovered in 1963 and a mass grave was found in 1999.
But Dr Daniel Franklin, of The University of Western Australia Centre for Forensic Science, said this was the first skeleton to be found undisturbed on Beacon Island through archaeological investigations.
He said it “represents a unique opportunity to reconstruct events surrounding this individual’s death and internment”.
Jeremy Green, head of maritime archaeology at the Western Australian Museum, said they hoped to learn more about about the life of sailors on board Dutch East India Company ships.
“It is as much about knowing where the people came from, what their diet was, as well as how they died,” he said.
The skeleton is of an adolescent and two musket balls were reported to have been found nearby.
The Batavia had sailed from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies but veered off course and was shipwrecked in the Abrolhos Islands. . . . .
“The Green Parasol” by Emanuel Phillips Fox (1912)
AS ANY student of history knows, the Chinese have been in Australia for a long time.
They were part of the gold rush of the 1850s and have been arriving ever since — in small numbers, and in waves.
But should they retain their Chinese culture and heritage in Australia?
Some say yes and some say no — and there will be an attempt to settle the question in The Great Gap Debate on Thursday when people from St George will join teams of people from all over Sydney to fight for the affirmative and the negative.
Organisers Mikall Chong from Bexley and Daphne Lowe Kelley from Drummoyne are reworking a similar debate held earlier this year in Mandarin.
Both believe that this sort of debate has to be run in English to attract a wider range of people. . . . . .
The Cultured Muse 