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2 unusual facts about Acton, Australian Capital Territory


2XXfm

It took over the operation of the former Australian National University student radio station in 1976, broadcasting as 2XX on 1008 kHz AM from two studios at the Drill Hall Gallery in Acton.

History of Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory

In 1963, Lake Burley Griffin was filled and Yarralumla was expanded to include Westlake, which had up until then been officially part of Acton.


Acton Bridge

In 1253 the tenure of Acton is recorded in the Red Book of the Exchequer as having the Lords of Hellesby as paramount Lords.

In 1356 Adam de Acton fought at the Battle of Poitiers with the Black Prince, and in 1408 John de Acton was appointed Governor and Admiral of the Fleet.

Acton Trussell

The name, if not the location, of Acton Trussell was borrowed by Staffordshire-born entertainer Patrick Fyffe (aka Dame Hilda Bracket) in creating the fictional village Stackton Tressel, home of eccentric spinster musicians Hinge and Bracket.

Acton-Northolt Line

These sidings served the Acton factory of the British Can Company (later taken over by Metal Box & Printing Industries), as well as the adjacent Walters' Palm Toffee factory.

Acton, Australian Capital Territory

A low bridge and causeway was erected in 1911, at the site of the original river ford in an area subsequently inundated by Lake Burley Griffin.

Acton, Suffolk

According to the BBC QI series, Jennens vs Jennens commenced in 1798 and was abandoned in 1915 (117 years later) when the legal fees had exhausted the Jennens estate of funds (worth c. £2 million).

Acton, Wrexham

In 1688 when James II fled the country, Jeffreys also tried to flee, but was arrested in Wapping and placed in the Tower of London "for his own safety", because the mob was outrageous against him.

He became notorious after the severe punishments he handed down at the trials of the supporters of the Duke of Monmouth during the reign of King James II.

Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn

Selwyn Rock (an exposed Permian glacial pavement) at Inman Valley in South Australia, Selwyn Range in the Canadian Rockies and Selwyn Street in Hackett, a suburb of the Australian Capital Territory are named after him.

Aurel Kolnai

Kolnai has been praised by influential figures such as Dietrich von Hildebrand, H.B. Acton, Bernard Williams, and Pierre Manent.

Australian Capital Territory Ice Hockey Association

The Australian Capital Territory Ice Hockey Association (ACTIHA) was formed as the Australian Capital Territory's branch for Ice Hockey Australia.

Australian heritage law

Australian heritage laws exist at the national (Commonwealth) level, and at each of Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia state levels.

Beyondblue

The chairman of beyondblue is Jeff Kennett, former Premier of Victoria, and its CEO is Kate Carnell, former Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory.

Bombers B-52

Nelson Leigh as Brigadier General Wayne Acton, Commanding Officer Castle Air Force Base

Brindabella Ranges

The most northerly ski fields in Australia are located in the A.C.T. - in the Brindabella Ranges and include the Namadgi National Park in the A.C.T. and Bimberi Nature Reserve and Brindabella National Park in New South Wales.

Brunswick Corporation

The same year, the company also purchased Northstar Technologies, a leading marine electronics provider based in Acton, Massachusetts, from Canadian Marconi Corporation (now CMC Electronics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Esterline Technologies Corporation).

Carlton Draught

Carlton Draught is a pale lager which is sold on tap in its home state of Victoria as well as in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia, and is one of Australia's most popular selling tap beers.

Christian Finnegan

He grew up in Acton, Massachusetts, and attended The Walnut Hill School, a boarding/day high school focused on programs in the performing, visual, and creative arts and located in Natick, Massachusetts.

Computer telephony integration

An example is Nabnasset, an Acton, Massachusetts firm that developed a CORBA based CTI solution for a client and then decided to make it into a general product.

David Caldicott

Dr. David Caldicott is an Irish Emergency Consultant at the Emergency Department of the Calvary Hospital in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.

David Syme Russell

Russell’s first charge was as pastor at the Castlegate church, Berwick, and between 1945 and 1951 he was minister in Acton, London, where in his final year there he conducted the funeral of the Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, preaching to a congregation including the cabinet of the Attlee government.

Donald Livingston

His political philosophy embodies the decentralizing themes echoed by Europeans such as Althusius, David Hume, and Lord Acton and Americans such as Thomas Jefferson, Spencer Roane, Abel Parker Upshur, Robert Hayne and John Calhoun, which holds the community and family as the elemental units of political society.

E. Clive Rouse

The son of Edward Foxwell Rouse (a furniture-maker in Acton, west London) and his wife Frances Sarah Sams (whose family had been dairymen to Buckingham Palace), Rouse was educated at St. Ronan's School, Worthing, then Gresham's School, Holt, and the St Martin's School of Art.

East Acton

Anciently, East Acton and Acton developed as separate settlements and the nearby districts of North Acton, West Acton and South Acton were developed in the late 19th century.

Felton, Northumberland

Forster, by his own account, used Acton House as a model for Cadover in his own favourite novel The Longest Journey (1907).

Geology of South Australia

The state of South Australia, which stretches along the coast of the continent and has boundaries with every other state in Australia, with the exception of the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania.

Ginini Flats Wetlands Ramsar Site

The Ginini Flats Wetlands Ramsar Site, also known as the Ginini Flats Subalpine Bog Complex, is a wetland in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) that has been recognised as being of international importance by designation under the Ramsar Convention.

Granville Slack

In his spare time, he chaired a housing society, and was active in the Acton Baptist Church.

Gynatrix

Gynatrix pulchella (Hemp Bush, Aboriginal Hemp), a shrub to 3 metres in height with white or cream flowers that occurs in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania.

Hill-Rom

The company has their primary offices and manufacturing facilities in Acton, MA, Batesville, IN, Cary, NC, Charleston, SC, Montpellier, France, Pluvigner (France), Monterrey, Mexico, and as well as a multitude of offices and service centers around the world.

HMAS Harman

In addition to its communications role, HMAS Harman provides Navy administrative and logistic functions to all Navy personnel located in the Australian Capital Territory and southern New South Wales.

James M. Acton

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about James Acton, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 7 works in 10+ publications in 1 language and 268 library holdings.

John Fennyhouse Green

On Wednesday 2 November, Green met with Brindley and Sir Edward Littleton, Chairman of the Canal Company, at Acton's stubble field to discuss his observations.

Judith Todd

She had been married from 1974 for ten years to Sir Richard Acton.

Kate Carnell

She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day Honours list of 2006, for her services and contributions to the Australian Capital Territory.

Lee Brooks

Lee Raymond Brooks (born February 26, 1983 in Acton, Massachusetts, U.S.) is a composer and sound designer for film.

Leonard D. White

White was born in Acton, Massachusetts to John Sidney White and Bertha H. (Dupee) White.

Leopold von Ranke

In particular, the British Roman Catholic historian Lord Acton defended Ranke's book as the most fair-minded, balanced and objective study ever written on the papacy of the 1500s.

On the Jellicoe Road

The story is set around the life of Taylor Lily Markham, the 17-year-old leader of the boarding school on the Jellicoe Road (country NSW/ACT).

Premiers of the Australian states

Currently South Australia, Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory are the three states and territories that are run by Labor governments.

Queanbeyan railway station

Queanbeyan is a railway station located on the border of Queanbeyan, New South Wales and Oaks Estate, Australian Capital Territory, Australia on the Canberra Line.

Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton

The oldest son of John Lyon-Dalberg-Acton and Daphne Strutt, daughter of Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, he was educated at St George's College, Harare in Zimbabwe and at Trinity College, Oxford, from which he emerged with a Bachelor of Arts in 1963 (later, he would receive a Master of Arts from the same institution).

Springbank Island

Springbank included both the river flats of the Molonglo River and Black Mountain plus a sizeable portion of the area now occupied by the Australian National University (ANU).

Stromlo High School

Stromlo High School has over 700 students and is the only high school in Australian Capital Territory to provide education from grades 6 - 10.

Tertiary Entrance Rank

Although directly equivalent to the Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank (ENTER) in Victoria, and the Universities Admission Index (UAI) in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, the terms ENTER and UAI were only used in their respective states or territories.

Thamnolia

Thamnolia vermicularis is a species found in may parts of the world, including high parts of Namadgi National Park in the Australian Capital Territory and Severnaya Zemlya

Western Avenue, London

The first major junction is Gypsy Corner (with the A4000, 0.8 miles (1.3 km)), connecting northwards to Park Royal and Harlesden and southwards to Acton town centre.

Zhang Hongjie

The Federal Government of Australia wants the Australian Capital Territory (ACT includes Canberra) to cooperate with the Chinese investigation into the murder, as written by a letter from John Howard to Chief Minister Stanhope in May 2005, and another request from Justice Minister Chris Ellison in June.


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