Adelaide

 • Summer (DST) ACDT (UTC+10:30) Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia with a population of more than 1.5 million (est. 2005). Adelaide is a coastal city beside the Southern Ocean and is situated on the Adelaide Plains, north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St. Vincent and the low lying Mount Lofty Ranges. It is a roughly linear city 20 km from the coast to the foothills, but stretches 90 km from Gawler ...

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Prior to European settlement, the Adelaide area was inhabited by the Kaurna Aboriginal tribe. Their name for the area known as Adelaide was Tarnda(r)nya, deriving supposedly from the Kaurna word tarnda, which means Red Kangaroo. Adelaide is still unofficially referred to by some, by this name. The Kaurna people were stone-age hunter gatherers who inhabited the Adelaide Plains and surrounding regions - from Cape Jervis in the south, and to Port Wakefield in the north. Among their unique customs were burn-offs (controlled ...

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Adelaide is named after Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, the German born Queen consort of the King of England, King William IV. King William reigned from 21 August 1765 – 20 June 1837, and gave final approval for the establishment of the city of Adelaide, and the wider colony of South Australia in 1836. South Australia was officially settled as a new British province on December 28, 1836. This day is now commemorated as a public holiday, Proclamation Day in South Australia. The site of the new main city of the colony (Adelaide) ...

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1004 - Events. December: End of the Samanid dynasty in Bokhara. Boleslaus I of Poland loses Bohemia after having become duke the previous year. He is succeeded as duke of Bohemia by Jaromir. Sancho III becomes king of Navarre. Sweyn destroys Norwich. Aberdeen becomes a bishopry. 1004 - Births. Abdallah ibn Al-Aftas (approximate date) (d. 1060) Goda of England (d. 1055) 1004 - DeathsIncluding:

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It came a mail from Carol who did the enlightenment process in Golden City just recently. Her mail is not only inspiring but it will also give you an in-depth understanding of how the process it self, and, the state of enlightenment can be perceived.

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The Venus Transit of June 2004 during the Venus Retrograde phase is a rare cosmic event that this year is laden with spiritual significance. Richard Giles examines this remarkable phenomenon.

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South Australia is a constitutional monarchy with the Queen of Australia as the head of state. Its bicameral parliament is made up of a House of Assembly (lower house) and a Legislative Council (upper house). The current Premier of South Australia is Mike Rann, a member of the Australian Labor Party. Initially, the Governor of South Australia (the first was Captain John Hindmarsh) held almost total power that he derived from the Letters Patent created by the Imperial Government to create the colony. He was only accountable to the Brit ...

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Music school - Argentina. Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música Music school - Austria. Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance [1] University Mozarteum Salzburg [2] Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien [3] Music school - Australia. Australian Institute of Music (Sydney) Australian National University School of Music (Canberra) Centra ...

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Coldplay - Origin and early years September 1996–October 1999. The members of the band met in the halls of residence at the University College London in September 1996. Martin and Buckland were the first members of the band, having met one another during freshers' week. They spent the rest of the year planning a band; at one point Martin had considered forming an *NSYNC inspired boy band called Pectoralz. Eventually, Berryman joined the ranks, without consideration of what musical direction the band was taking. ...

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Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was formed in 1967 by the union of the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. The school is often referred to as CMU by students, staff, alumni, and locals. However, this p ...

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Port Hills and west to Banks Peninsula District (includes Lyttelton) Situated on the Eastern coast, Christchurch is the principal city of the South Island of New Zealand. Named after Christ Church College at the University of Oxford. It was originally known as Christ Church, the name being abbreviated by common usage by the 1880s. The pre-European (Maori) name Otautahi, is said to originate from a Maori chief named Tautahi, who is believed to have occupied a seasonal dwelling on a bank o ...

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• Christchurch - Educational institutions
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A Christmas tree is one of the most popular traditions associated with the celebration of Christmas. It is normally an evergreen coniferous tree that is brought into a home or used in the open, and is decorated with Christmas lights and colourful ornaments during the days around Christmas. Christmas tree - Dates. Traditionally, Christmas trees were not brought in and decorated until Christmas Eve (24 December), and then removed the day after twelfth night (i.e., 6 January); to have a tree up before or after ...

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• Christmas tree - Care and disposal of natural trees
• Christmas tree - History
• Christmas tree - Name controversy
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Christian rock is a form of rock music played by bands where the musicians are openly Christian. The extent that their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands. In the 1970s, Larry Norman was a popular Christian rock musician who challenged a view held by some conservative Christians (predominantly fundamentalists) that rock music was anti-Christian. One of his songs, "Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music?", summarized his attitude and his quest to pioneer Christian rock music. Such attitudes toward n ...

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 • Summer (DST) AEDT (UTC+11) Canberra is the capital city of Australia and with a population of just over 323,000 is Australia's largest inland city. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory, 300 km southwest of Sydney, and 650 km north-east of Melbourne. Canberra was selected as the location of the National Capital in 1908 as a compromise between Sydney and Melbourne and is unusual amongst Australian capital cities as an entirely purpose-built, planned city. Following an i ...

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Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch (or sovereign), and the largest "working" royal palace remaining in the world. The expression "Buckingham Palace" or simply "The Palace" has become a common way of referring to the source of press statements coming from parts of the British Royal Family (see Metonymy). In addition to being the London home of Queen Elizabeth II, Buckingham Palace is a setting for state occasions, royal entertaining and base for all officially visiting heads of state, and is a major tourist attraction. It has been a rallying point fo ...

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Broken Hill (31°57′S 141°27′E) is an isolated mining city and Local Government Area in the far west of outback New South Wales, Australia, with a population of 21,000. It is located near the border with South Australia on the crossing of the Barrier Highway (#32) and the Silver City Highway, in the Barrier Ranges. It is 220 metres above sea level and has a average rainfall of 235 mm and summer temperatures that hit well over 40° C. The closest major city is Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, which is more than 500 km to ...

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Bus rapid transit (BRT) is a broad term given to a variety of different transportation systems which attempt to use buses to provide a quality service through a set of various improvements to the bus line. Each BRT system utilizes different improvements, although many improvements are shared by many BRT systems. The expression "BRT" is mainly used in North America, elsewhere one may speak of Quality Bus or simply bus service while raising the quality. Bus rapid transit - Etymology. "Bus ...

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Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting (via ...

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Virgin Blue is an Australian low-cost airline founded by the British businessman Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group. It is based in Brisbane. Virgin Blue - Code data. IATA Code: DJ ICAO Code: VOZ Callsign: Virgin Virgin Atlantic Airways, Virgin Express, Polynesian Blue Virgin Blue - History. Virgin Blue was launched on 3 August 2000, with two aircraft initially offering 7 r ...

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Clement Lindley Wragge (19 September 1852 - 10 December 1922) was a meteorologist born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England. After training in law, Wragge became renowned in the field of meteorology, winning the Scottish Meteorological Society's Gold Medal and starting the trend of using people's names for cyclones. He travelled widely, and in his later years was a reliable authority on Australia, India and the Pacific Islands. Clement Lindley Wragge - Early Years. Wragge's lost both of his parents at a ...

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