Gold Coast Pins and Buttons

Snapper Rocks Beach, Gold Coast Queensland Australia

Steeped in surfing legend and local lore alike, the waves at Bells Beach are a big, wide canvas that's not very steep. It's tough to ride which largely keeps the kooks away, and forces surfers to bring their rail game. In 1961, locals launched the Bells Beach Surf Classic to bring together the best of the best. It didn't take long before surfers were coming from all over the world to compete and in 1973, the event became a pro competition which, despite several name changes, has been held annually ever since.

Kwame Nkrumah PC (September 18 or 21, 1909– 27 April 1972) led Ghana to independence from Britain in 1957 and served as its first prime minister and president. Nkrumah first gained power as leader of the colonial Gold Coast, and held it until he was deposed in 1966. An influential 20th-century advocate of Pan-Africanism, he was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and was the winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962. According to intelligence documents released by the American Office of the Historian, "Nkrumah was doing more to undermine [U.S. government] interests than any other black African."

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