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Beyond the stereotyped 鈥淕鈥檇ay鈥� (hello) of souvenir T-shirts and 鈥淐rocodile Dundee鈥� movies, are many words rich in tradition that define the Australian identity and give continuity to the variety of voices and experiences that shaped the country鈥檚 history. Assuming you pass the tests and move to Australia, you鈥檒l probably find yourself flat out like a lizard drinking, that鈥檚 extremely busy, from the hard yakka or labour of your new job.

In Adelaide there may be periods when the ball darts around and the bowlers move to attacking lengths to induce batters into coming forward, and other times when seamers will have to plug away and do some hard yakka, which England鈥檚 are capable of doing. The path to victory is to bang away with accurate seam bowlers.

The pork clock was excavated in the 1760s from the ruins of the Villa dei Papiri, a grand country house in the Roman town of Herculaneum. Early scholars were quick to realize that the unprepossessing object was a sundial, though some experts argued that it was modeled after a water jug rather than a ham …. The original clock is missing its gnomon, the part of a sundial that casts a shadow, but an 18th-century museum curator described it having one in the shape of a pig鈥檚 tail…

Though not exactly a clock, the Samrat Yantra鈥攐r supreme instrument鈥攊s the largest sundial in the world, measuring more than 88 feet in height. Made of marble and local stone with a gnomon that stands at 90 feet, this time-keeping attraction can tell accurate time, with just a two-second margin of error, day or night.

Epicurus (341鈥�270 B.C.) led an eponymous school of thought鈥揈picureanism鈥攖hat believed a happy life requires two things: ataraxia (freedom from mental disturbance) and aponia (the absence of physical pain). His philosophy might be characterized as 鈥淚f it is scary or painful, work to avoid it.鈥� Epicureans see discomfort as generally negative, and thus the elimination of threats and problems as the key to a happier life. Don鈥檛 get the impression that I am saying they are lazy or unmotivated鈥攓uite the contrary, in many cases. But they don鈥檛 see enduring fear and pain as inherently necessary or beneficial, and they focus instead on enjoying life.

Ataraxia should act like a slow-release drug, accumulating over days and weeks. Ancient philosophers believed achieving ataraxia created an emotional homeostasis, where the effect wouldn鈥檛 just be a more stable base-level mood, but one that would hopefully flow out to the people around you. If you are more tranquil, you will be less likely to react or combust. So not only do you not ruin your own day, you avoid ruining other people鈥檚 too. In a tranquil state you may even make better decisions.