Australia & Oceania
epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Tom Enright

Discomfiture of an aide Squadron lore tells of a flight (rather before my time in Fiji) to take the Governor General of Fiji on a State visit to the Kingdom ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Fred Cahir & Sara Weuffen & Matt Smith & Peter Bakker & Jo Caminiti

The men were also reported as saying: “War ceremonies aroused but little enthusiasm, and the one desire expressed by all was to work and forget as quickly as possible the ...
( Category: Engineering March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-06 | Author:Jeanette M. Thompson

13 Mounted police Weatherboard Hut, Blue Mountains, Tuesday 28 September 1830 Captain Walpole and his detachment of the 39th Regiment had camped overnight on the Blue Mountains. A company of ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Ron & Elizabeth Morrison

Every bloke’s dream but definitely not PC now. In the sixties, Queensland’s Surfers Paradise was famous for its bikini-clad meter maids who fed coins into expiring parking meters. So popular ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 1920-01-01 | Author:James Norman Hall & Charles Nordhoff [Hall, James Norman]

Chapter X - Costly Hospitality FOR an authentic test of one's capacity for solitude—or better, perhaps, for convincing proof of the lack of it—two conditions are essential: complete isolation—that goes ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gonzalo Villanueva

2.Ibid.; ‘ALF Strikes’, Animal Liberation Victoria Newsletter, May 1986, 1. 3.Sidney Tarrow, Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics, 3rd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 99. 4.Ibid. 5.William ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Harold Roy Williams

Chapter 11 Officers’ Course, Cambridge Withdrawn from the Somme – Training for a new campaign – Flanders again – Am selected for a commission – Cambridge – The New Zealanders ...
( Category: Ethnic & National March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gordon Smith [Smith Gordon]

The next night the battalion was relieved by the 7 th Battalion, and they proceeded 5 miles south to Tara Hill rest area, just outside of Albert. It was not ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-27 | Author:Charles Godfrey Leland [Leland, Charles Godfrey]

On the morn it was clear and cold—as it seemed to me, never colder, when the Tribune kindly poured out freezing water, little by little, from a tin cup for ...
( Category: Transportation March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:O'Brien, Karen

5 Contemporary Petitioning Achieving land rights: Socio-legal perspectives The petitions of First Nations provided the formal means by which the transformation of the direst of circumstances was brought about. The ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bongiorno, Frank

INTERIM: 1987–1996 John Howard’s dogged performance in the 1987 election was ultimately insufficient to allow him to retain the leadership of his party. His effort, during the bicentennial year of ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-04-19 | Author:Gary W. Selman

8.3 Merle Warn 1981 Oyster Festival Mother of Pearl.[179] 8.4 Belinda McGuire 1981 Festival Queen.[180] 8.5 Virginia Kokshoorn, runner-up Festival Queen.[181] 8.6 Belinda McGuire (right) 1981 Festival Queen and runner-up ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Iain McCalman

The discovery of Barbara Thompson proved to be a watershed in Huxley’s intellectual growth. What he learnt from her would underpin much of his later writing as a Darwinian ethnographer. ...
( Category: Scientists March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-19 | Author:David Walker

A group of Australian students study a wall map before leaving to visit China, 1957. Photograph by W. Bundle (National Archives of Australia) In the late 1950s, the much-quoted Lord ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-23 | Author:Peter Cox [Cox, Peter]

Interestingly, the South African history gives a far more positive perspective. Although the New Zealanders were under threat, there were British tanks concentrated close to the rear of 15 Panzer, ...
( Category: Australia & Oceania March 11,2020 )