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Furneaux Group
Furneaux Group , about 25 islands, c.900 sq mi (2,330 sq km), Tasmania, SE Australia, in Bass Strait between Tasmania and the Australian mainland. The largest is Flinders Island, and the group forms Flinders municipality. The islands were explored in 1773 by the British navigator Tobias Furneaux. ... Read more |
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Thomas Francis Meagher
Thomas Francis Meagher , 1823-67, Irish revolutionary and Union general in the American Civil War, b. Waterford, Ireland. A leader of the Young Ireland movement, he was arrested and condemned to death for his part in the abortive rebellion of 1848, but the sentence was commuted to penal servitude in... Read more |
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Bergmanns rule
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Allens rule
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Glogers rule
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Bass Strait
Bass Strait , channel, 80 to 150 mi (129-241 km) wide, between Tasmania and Victoria, SE Australia, connecting the Indian Ocean and Tasman Sea; Port Phillip Bay and Melbourne are on the northwest coast. Bass Strait is an important fishing area. The exploration of the strait by Englishman George Bass... Read more |
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Launceston
Launceston , city (1991 pop. 66,747), on Tasmania, SE Australia, where the North Esk and South Esk rivers join to form the Tamar estuary; founded 1806. Launceston is the second most populous city in Tasmania and the main port for trade with the Australian mainland. The principal exports are dairy... Read more |
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Thomas Augustine Arne
Thomas Augustine Arne , 1710-78, English composer. Arne composed the song Rule, Britannia, based on an ode by James Thomson. He composed new music for an adaptation of Milton's masque Comus (1738) and for some of the songs in Shakespeare's plays. He also wrote operas, oratorios, including ... Read more |
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RULES: Tasmania to play in VFL
...01-18-2001 RULES: Tasmania to play in VFL By Don Woolford HOBART, Jan 18 AAP - Tasmania - although as yet...will play in the VFL this season. The...allowed Tasmania to play ... |
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AFL: Cousins set for VFL return, management says
...addict Ben Cousins may play in the VictorianFootball...registeredto play in the VFL before next Monday...boots for one of 10 VFL sides. Under AFL rules, he is unable to...But that leaves 10 VFL clubs in the running, ... |
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AFL: Cousins to play in VFL side Port Melbourne
...2008 AFL: Cousins to play in VFL side Port Melbourne...register to play in the VFL before next Monday's deadline. Under AFL rules, he is unable to play...But that leaves 10 VFL clubs in the running, ... |
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SPO: Briefs PM Tuesday June 20, 2006
...and will prefer to play through the problemrather...matchwith the Kangaroos' VFL affiliate in Tasmania earlier this month...anti-tampering rules forplayers coming...anti-tampering rules prohibited clubs...won't be fitto play ... |
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Bill Casey Sport Column
...standard. Australian Rules can fill 12 teams...relegation. The healthy VFL competition in Victoria...are 16 clubs in the VFL, including areas represented like Tasmania, and onlythe bottom...their players in the VFL before bringing ... |
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AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Evening, July 16
...JOYCE has refused to rule out crossing the floor...the ocean's edge. Tasmania's Department of...into the back of a VFL umpire. KOSCHITZKE, who is yet to play another AFL game since...ruckduel in Saturday's VFL reserves game between...appear ... |
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Thuggery still a problem in some hamlets
...the island state of Tasmania, which has few people...of the game. The VFL had been formed in...rough or violent play lay with umpires...mid-1980s, the VFL introduced what was...was no send-off rule, players considered...during International ... |
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AFL: Pagan backs Houlihan bump
...tries to explain the rules of the game,Pagan said...drinking the night before a VFL match. Hay is badly...extendedspell in the VFL. "He won't play this week, he's suspended, he'll go back and play games at Tasmania- and I ... |
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SPO: Briefs AM Wednesday April 18, 2007
...the first time the Cats play at Aurora Stadium, where...SYDNEY) Australian Rules great LEN FITZGERALD has...15-year-old in the VFL in 1945, Fitzgerald played...of midfield. Australia play their final home group...coxlessfours. The crew of ... |
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Highlights of the AAP Sports Wire at 14:45 Feb 23, 2008
...having knee surgery that will rule him out for at leastnine months...Dutch Ajax Nightlead) BERLIN - VfL Bochum took a big stride away...final against a disciplined Tasmania at BelleriveOval today. (Cup...round atthe Accenture Match Play Championship today, ... |
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