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Wagga Wagga, New South Wales/Australia Settled in the 1830s with an Aboriginal name ‘(Place of) Many Crows’, the duplication of the word indicating the plural.

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Wagga Wagga , city (1991 pop. 40,875), New South Wales, SE Australia, on the Murrumbidgee River. It is the center of an agricultural district with food-processing and rubber-goods plants and foundries. Wagga Wagga is also the site of the main campus of Charles Sturt Univ. as well as teachers, technical, and agricultural colleges.

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	Australian Rail Track Corporation replaced the 1879-built Wagga Wagga bridge on the Sydney--Melbourne line during a four-day engineering possession in January.(Australia) Magazine article from: International Railway Journal; 2/1/2007
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	Australian Rail Track Corporation replaced the 1879-built Wagga Wagga bridge on the Sydney--Melbourne line during a four-day engineering possession in January.(Australia) Magazine article from: International Railway Journal; 2/1/2007; 39 words ; Australian Rail Track Corporation replaced the 1879-built Wagga Wagga bridge on the Sydney--Melbourne line during a four-day engineering possession in January. The new bridge has a speed limit of 80km/h, compared with just 20km/h on the old bridge. Read more
	Almanach de Wagga.(the Tichborne Affair) Magazine article from: Quadrant; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...English legal history on English soil--found the claimant to be one Arthur Orton, alias Tom Castro, erstwhile butcher from Wagga Wagga, with not a particle of right to the Tichborne estates or title. Evidence against him proved powerful, and by no means... Read more
	Australia: a vanishing country? Australia's laboriously built food standards are rapidly decaying under FTA pressure.(Free Trade) Magazine article from: Arena Magazine; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Heinz Australia's consignment of beef from Brazil to its Wagga Wagga factory have in common with the little bags of Chinese garlic...rising dramatically. A consignment of Brazilian beef to Wagga Wagga speaks of this kind of danger; it illustrates how... Read more
	Where crows gather: The Sister Liguori Affair 1920-21. Magazine article from: Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...and farce, in which a young Irish nun flees her convent at Wagga Wagga, fearful she is about to be murdered by her Mother Superior...paper, 'Where Crows Gather', derives from the meaning of Wagga Wagga in the local Wiradjuri language. But it also conveys... Read more
	Austrak, an Australian subsidiary of Laing O'Rourke, will build a $A 11.5 million plant.(Australia) Magazine article from: International Railway Journal; 12/1/2006; 29 words ; Austrak, an Australian subsidiary of Laing O'Rourke, will build a $A 11.5 million plant at Wagga Wagga to supply 1.25 million concrete sleepers for the Melbourne-Brisbane upgrade programme. Read more
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	The history of Bulgary. (short story) Magazine article from: Quadrant; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...BC, but only just; it was just a dot off the road between Wagga Wagga and Narrandera, about halfway between Collingullie and Galore...and that it included most of the Riverina. The citizens of Wagga Wagga and Narrandera discovered that they were living in... Read more
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	Sister cities need to evolve. (Taurus).(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Business Asia; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...towns and regional cities have developed links with generally larger towns and cities in Asia, Europe and North America. Wagga Wagga, in southern NSW, is twinned with Fort Leavonworth, Texas, the strategic city of Kun Ming in China, as well as Nordlingen... Read more
	Top gun! Newspaper article from: Derbyshire Times (Chesterfield, England); 4/20/2006; 129 words ; ...captured the European title last year in France and gave the rest of the world a shooting lesson at the global showdown in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. Out of a possible 900 points from three days shooting, Emma, England's number one for the third year... Read more