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    What Australian word for a soldier also occurs in a certain context as a term for a land-reclaiming kind of "Christian communist"?

    Question #111811. Asked by flem-ish. (Dec 31 09 12:21 AM)


    looney_tunes

    		An Australian soldier is usually referred to as a digger.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_(soldier)

    during the period of the English Civil War, "the Diggers were an English group of Protestant Christian agrarianists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as True Levellers in 1649, who became known as "Diggers" due to their activities.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers

    Dec 31 09, 12:54 AM

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