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Charlotte ♀ (French) feminine diminutive of Charles, used in England since the 17th century. It was particulary popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, in part due to the influence of firstly Queen Charlotte (1744–1818), wife of George III, and secondly the novelist Charlotte ... Read more |
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Australia , smallest continent, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. With the island state of Tasmania to the south, the continent makes up the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary state (2005 est. pop. 20,090,000), 2,967,877 sq mi (7,686,810 sq km). Australia's capital is ... Read more |
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Eastern Highlands c.2,400 mi (3,860 km) long, general name for the mountains and plateaus roughly paralleling the east and southeast coasts of Australia (including Tasmania) and forming the Continental Divide (see Great Dividing Range ); rises to Mt. Kosciusko (7,316 ft/2,230 m), Australia's... Read more |
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John Forrest 1st Baron Forrest
John Forrest Forrest, 1st Baron 1847-1918, Australian explorer and statesman. In 1869 he led an expedition to the west of Lake Barlee in search of the missing Friedrich Leichhardt , and the following year he returned from Perth along the Great Bight to Adelaide. After other explorations he became... Read more |
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Murray
Murray principal river of Australia, 1,609 mi (2,589 km) long, rising in the Australian Alps, SE New South Wales, and flowing westward to form the New South Wales-Victoria boundary. It then flows southwest across South Australia state through Lake Alexandrina, a lagoon, into the Indian Ocean. It... Read more |
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17 arrested in Australia; alleged terror plot foiled
...early today, arrested 17 suspected terrorists, including a prominent radical Muslim cleric, and said...said eight men were arrested in Sydney...evidence including weapons...Muslim cleric Abu Bakr, an Algerian...cells in Australia. ... |
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17 Terror Suspects Arrested in Australia
...suspects, including a radical Muslim cleric accused of...authorities arrested 17 terror suspects...Tuesday _ including a prominent radical Muslim...men were arrested in Sydney...known as Abu Bakr _ was the...innocent men and women in ... |
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17 Terror Suspects Nabbed in Australia
...Police in Australia arrested 17 terror suspects, including a prominent radical Muslim cleric, in a string...said eight men were arrested in Sydney...Scully. Australia's Sky News...reported that a man who had been...Muslim cleric Abu ... |
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Police in Australia arrest 17 terror suspects, say they foiled attack
...AustraliaPolice in Australia arrested 17 terror suspects, including a prominent radical Muslim cleric, in a string...attack.Australia's Sky News...among those arrested is a leading...that eight men were arrested...Muslim cleric Abu ... |
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17 terror suspects nabbed in Australia: Major attack by men devoted to jihad...
SYDNEY, Australia -- Australian authorities arrested 17 terror suspects today -- including a prominent radical Muslim cleric sympathetic...country by men committed...men were arrested in Sydney...evidence including weapons and...known as Abu ... |
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