Mark Mordue, The Sun-Herald, 10 January 2010
WHEN THE American author Mark Twain visited a Victorian gold mining town back in 1885, he was inspired to write: "It was as if the name BALLARAT had suddenly been written in the sky, where all the world could read it at once."
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