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There are World Peace Bells around the world which are rung on World Peace Day (the 3rd Tuesday of September) to mark the opening of the United Nations Disarmament Session. Australia's World Peace Bell is located in the town of Cowra in New South Wales. It was launched on 15 September 1992.
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We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in!
Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.
The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party.
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