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            Copper Wire

            After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last  year, British
            scientists found
            traces of copper wire dating back 200 years  and came to the
            conclusion that
            their ancestors already had a telephone network more than
            150 years ago.

            Not to be outdone by the British, in the weeks that
            followed, an American
            archaeologist dug to a depth of 20  feet, and shortly after,
            a story
            published in the New York Times: "American archaeologists,
            finding traces of
            250-year-old copper wire, have concluded that their
            ancestors already had an
            advanced high-tech communications network 50 years earlier
            than the
            British".

            One week later, Australia's Northern Territory Times,
            reported the
            following: "After digging as deep as 30 feet in his backyard
            in Tennant Creek, Northern
            Territory, aboriginal Billi Bunji, a self-taught
            archaeologist, reported
            that he found absolutely f…-all.
            Billi has therefore concluded that 250 years ago, Australia
            had already
            gone wireless."...

            Makes me feel bloody proud to be Australian!



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