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Fremantle
Fremantle , city (1996 pop. 24,276), Western Australia, SW Australia, a suburb of Perth, on the Indian Ocean at the mouth of the Swan River. It is the terminus of the Trans-Australian RR and the chief commercial port of the state. The chief exports are wheat, wool, fruit, and flour; oil, steel, and... Read more |
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Perth
Perth city (1991 pop. 1,018,702), capital of Western Australia, SW Australia, on the Swan River estuary. Fremantle is Perth's port. Perth is a communications and transportation center and the state's financial, commercial, and cultural hub. The suburbs of Fremantle, Kwinana, and Welshpool have... Read more |
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bark
bark or barque , sailing vessel with three masts, of which the mainmast and the foremast are square-rigged while the mizzenmast is fore-and-aft-rigged. Although the word was once used to mean any small boat, later barks were sometimes quite large (up to 6,000 tons). In addition to the standard... Read more |
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Raymond Massey
MASSEY, Raymond Nationality:American. Born:Raymond Hart Massey in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 30 August 1896; became U.S. citizen, 1944. Education:Attended Appleby School, Oakville, Ontario; Canadian Officers' Training Corps, University of Toronto, 1915;... Read more |
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Fabian Society
Fabian Society British socialist society. An outgrowth of the Fellowship of the New Life (founded 1883 under the influence of Thomas Davidson), the society was developed the following year by Frank Podmore and Edward Pease. George Bernard Shaw and Sidney Webb joined soon after this and became its... Read more |
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Western Australia
Western Australia state (1991 pop. 1,409,965), 975,920 sq mi (2,527,633 sq km), Australia, comprising the entire western part of the continent. It is bounded on the N, W, and S by the Indian Ocean. Perth is the capital. Other important cities are Kalgoorlie , a gold-mining center; Fremantle ,... Read more |
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ciborium
ciborium a receptacle shaped like a shrine or a cup with an arched cover, used in the Christian Church for the reservation of the Eucharist. Also, a canopy over an altar in a church, standing on four pillars. Recorded from the mid 16th century, the word comes via medieval Latin from Greek... Read more |
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Archaeocyatha
Archaeocyatha An extinct phylum of reef-forming organisms known only from the Cambrian. They were cup-like, usually 10–30 mm in diameter and up to 50 mm high. The cylindrical, conical, or discoid cup often had an irregular outline or outgrowths. The outer wall had simple pores or was... Read more |
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WILL THE CUP RUNNETH OVER TO HAWAII?
...only for the America's Cup to have returned to Newport...the postmortems down in Fremantle, Australia, six weeks...tried to coax Conner into taking a shot or two...dazzling failure in the Cup only heightened the notion...head. Most of us in ... |
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THE CUP RUNNETH HOME CONNER COMPLETES THE SWEEP
FREMANTLE, Australia...the city breaks into pandemonium over the coronation of a new America's Cup king. Just 3...had been lulled into thinking he couldn...about four minutes into the leg, she...its way back to ... |