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A photo of Eureka Tower the highest residential tower in the
world at the moment with 91 floors total.
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What a lovely day in the royal gardens...
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More water would help, but I suppose there's not much to be done about that (although you'd think maybe everybody could volunteer
to take a shower 30 seconds faster one day and it'd be ok to fill up the pond...
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Skyline of Melbourne as the sun nears the horizon
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These are FREE grills (from what we could tell) - you just bring your food and clean up when done, but the gas/grill/etc are
free (but I suppose there's enough energy production in Australia perhaps this is a nice public feature)
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I think this is the new yet-to-be-named Rectangular
Stadium of Melbourne
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Daniel demonstrates good posture
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It must be tough to coach, use the megaphone, and bicycle on the path all at the same time
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This mermaid is sad because there's no more WATER there...
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Just to be clear, this is no road
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Hello - I hope you're having a good day - beware of cars!
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Flinders Street Station
is very with more than 100,000 people passing through each weekday, the clocks in front
now automatic, back in the day were adjusted using a long pole throughout the day requiring 900 adjustments per
day
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A nice church diagonal from the Flinders Street Station
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Now really, are these fire evacuation instructions Christian? Help people only if it's safe otherwise close the door on
them and call the fire brigade?
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Melbourne Visitor Centre and Flinders Street Station
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The BMW auditorium (or something like that) in Federation Square
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Nice standardized grip/alert dots before steps/etc
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The visitor centre was very well staffed/organized
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A view of the reading room/dome of the
State Library of Victoria, where we took a tour
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A whole room for playing chess...
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Our tour guide points out one of the oldest artifacts in the library's collection, a small tablet from Mesopotamia
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The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, 1st edition...not the best idea to stamp it as property of the library in 1914 though
I think...
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The advent of the paperback age was represented by these Penguin Books
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There are shelves along the walls of the open central dome area but these are for looks only/not used
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I found BATMAN'S HOUSE! Actually it's a diagram of
John Batman's residence who in 1835 founded the Melbourne/Victoria area (although at the time he wanted to call
the village Batmania)
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Who knew that so many mice could be caught in one night - I wonder how big the cats were...
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The famous Australian outlaw
Ned Kelly's suit of armor
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A portrait of Mr. Tulk the first
librarian on site
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Aboringinee school
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1956 Melbourne Olympic memorabilia
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Mr. Tulk has a hip cafe attached to the library
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