The Other, Smarter, Tom Gara
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Behold, the top link on YouTube when searching for "Tom Gara".
It is my uncle Tom, whose existence and naming creates the following interesting facts:
- Despite being approximately the largest man in the world, I am known among this side of the family as "Little Tom," a relic of my childhood days as the smallest Tom Gara in the family.
- If you google for my name, you get a combination of various blogs, newspaper/ magazine articles etc written by me - but mixed in is a whole bunch of references to the impressive body of knowledge / scholarship of by Tom Gara from Adelaide, South Australia, who knows about as much about the history of Aboriginal Australians as anybody. This, to the novice who is googling me for background info / recruitment purposes, makes it look like I have a far better education than I actually do.
Anyhow, here is the man known by some as "Big Tom," talking about the interactions between famous Australian explorers Burke and Wills and the indigenous people of the Australian outback, and the general relationship between the early explorers and the Aboriginals.
It is my uncle Tom, whose existence and naming creates the following interesting facts:
- Despite being approximately the largest man in the world, I am known among this side of the family as "Little Tom," a relic of my childhood days as the smallest Tom Gara in the family.
- If you google for my name, you get a combination of various blogs, newspaper/ magazine articles etc written by me - but mixed in is a whole bunch of references to the impressive body of knowledge / scholarship of by Tom Gara from Adelaide, South Australia, who knows about as much about the history of Aboriginal Australians as anybody. This, to the novice who is googling me for background info / recruitment purposes, makes it look like I have a far better education than I actually do.
Anyhow, here is the man known by some as "Big Tom," talking about the interactions between famous Australian explorers Burke and Wills and the indigenous people of the Australian outback, and the general relationship between the early explorers and the Aboriginals.
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