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unusual facts about Augusta, Western Australia



Alec Trendall

He is known for his work in mapping the island of South Georgia and for surveying the geology of Western Australia.

Augusta Mall

The space frame ceiling is a replica of The Mall in Columbia, Tampa Bay Center and Hulen Mall while the center fountain and elevator was taken from Beachwood Place, which opened the same month as Augusta.

Augusta, Illinois

Catlin named Augusta after having a memorable visit to Augusta, Georgia.

Augusta, Lady Gregory

With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies.

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.

Australian Protective Service

Protection of sensitive defence establishments, including Defence Headquarters at Russell Offices in Canberra; the joint Australian/US communications facility at Pine Gap in the Northern Territory; the former atomic testing site at Maralinga in South Australia; the Australian Defence Signals facility at Geraldton and the naval communications station at Exmouth, both in Western Australia

Ayton Castle

He remarried (2) Fanny Augusta (1821–1902) daughter of James Vine, in Puckaster, Isle of Wight.

Born, Luxembourg

The Romans became firmly established in nearby Trier or Augusta Treverorum, a prosperous regional capital, but they also developed communities in the Moselle and Sauer valleys, especially at Wasserbillig (Biliacum), the bridge over the Sauer on the Roman road from Trier to Reims (Civitas Remorum), and Echternach, the bridge on the road from Arlon (Orolaunum), to Bitburg (Vicus Beda).

Carinotrachia admirale

The type locality of Carinotrachia admirale is Middle Osborn Island, Bonaparte Archipelago in north-western Kimberley, Western Australia.

Charles Crouch

Charles Crouch, merchandising executive, was born in Augusta, Georgia, Sept. 15, 1898, son of Joseph William and Lily (Strom) Crouch.

CHLT-DT

Also, as with CKSH-DT, CHLT enjoys cable coverage throughout selected areas of Northern New England, as far east as Augusta and Rockland, Maine, and as far south as Barre, St. Johnsbury and Chelsea, Vermont.

Commonwealth Railways CB class railcar

Following the extension of the standard gauge line from Port Augusta to Marree in 1957 and Whyalla, South Australia in 1972 the Budd cars began to operate to these destinations.

Cooperative Wheat Pool of Western Australia

Cooperative Wheat Pool of Western Australia, commonly known as the Wheat Pool of Western Australia, is a cooperative of wheat growers in Western Australia.

Copper mining in Arizona

Other potential new copper mines are the Carlota project (owned by Quadra FNX Mining) in Pinal County and expected to start in 2008, and Rosemont Copper (owned by Augusta Resources) in Pima County.

David Brand

A member of the Liberal Party, he was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1945 to 1975, and also the 19th and longest-serving Premier of Western Australia, serving four terms from the 1959 to the 1971 elections.

Dilute budgerigar mutation

In 1896, George Keartland of the Calvert Expedition to the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia, observed a yellow budgerigar flying wild in a flock on three occasions.

Easton affair

On 5 November 1992, a petition was tabled in the Western Australian Legislative Council by John Halden MLC containing an allegation that the state Opposition Leader, Richard Court, had improperly provided confidential information to a party in a divorce case.

Enid Lyons

At the same election, Dorothy Tangney (later Dame Dorothy) was elected as a Labor Senator for Western Australia, the nation's first woman Senator.

Greenbushes, Western Australia

Greenbushes is a timber and mining town located in the South West region of Western Australia.

Harry Frederick Recher

In 1996 he became the Foundation Professor in Environmental Management at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia.

Headingly Station

In 1953 the property was owned by the Peel River Land and mineral Company which took 200 bulls and transferred them by road train to Auvergne Station in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.

Heneage Finch, 6th Earl of Aylesford

Born in Packington, Worcestershire, Aylesford was the son of Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Aylesford and his wife Lady Augusta Sophia, fourth daughter of George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick.

James Blomfield

He was married in 1903 to Mary Augusta Diamond of Belleville, Ontario, who predeceased him in 1930.

Jammer keyboard

It was coined by Jim Plamondon, founder of Thumtronics, and first used when the "Thummer(tm)-brand jammer" was publicly announced on December 15, 2005, in Perth, Western Australia.

Jean Giambrone

Virginia "Jean" Giambrone (May 6, 1921 – January 21, 2013) was an American sports writer, who became the first woman to be awarded full press credentials at the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia.

Jean-Pierre, Count of Montalivet

Montalivet Street in Paris, a Montalivet Square in Valence, Montalivet Avenue in Caen, Comte de Montalivet Street in Sarreguemines and the Montalivet Islands in Western Australia, are all named after him.

John Dykes

Highlights of his time with ESPN STAR Sports include his anchoring the broadcast of cricket's 1999 World Cup in England, trips to Wimbledon and Flushing Meadows to work alongside Vijay Amritraj on Grand Slam tennis, and his work in Augusta for Tiger Woods' triumph at the 2001 Masters.

Jon Stratton

Jonathon, or Jonathan, (Jon) Stratton is an Australian academic currently serving as Professor of Cultural Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.

Lophocorona astiptica

It was described by Common in 1973, and is endemic to Western Australia.

Lori Geary

Lori started her first reporting job at WRDW-TV in Augusta, Georgia where she was quickly promoted to noon anchor and later moved to Raleigh, North Carolina where she covered politics and conducted some memorable interviews with Jesse Helms, Elizabeth Dole, and John Edwards.

Maureen Muggeridge

In 1979, Maureen married Towie's son John, she became pregnant and she discovered diamond samples in the flood plains surrounding Smoke Creek, a small stream in East Kimberley that drained into Lake Argyle.

Murder of Sally Anne Bowman

In October 2006, Dixie's DNA was sent to Western Australia to be tested against that of the DNA evidence in the Claremont serial killer case between 1996 and 1997, as it is believed he was in the area at the time of the killings, and may have committed them.

Nelson's taxonomic arrangement of Adenanthos

The first known botanical collection of Adenanthos was made by Archibald Menzies during the September 1791 visit of the Vancouver Expedition to King George Sound on the south coast of Western Australia.

Newbridge, Victoria

It is the birthplace of Arthur Wellesley Bayley who, with William Ford discovered the goldfields of Coolgardie in September 1892, Coolgardie being a town in the vicinity of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.

Robert Zabica

Zabica represented the Australian national football team 28 times in 'A' international matches and also represented Western Australia.

Roland Hyatt

He took his first Sheffield Shield wicket against Western Australia, dismissing Greg Shipperd with a drifting ball.

Ronan's Escape

The film set in the rural wheat belt of Western Australia, provides a candid insight into the life of Ronan, a 14 year old boy who gets bullied at school and decides to make his escape.

Rosemary Clooney Museum

The Rosemary Clooney Museum is located in a historic 1835 house, located on Riverside Drive, in Augusta, Kentucky.

Rupert Byron, 11th Baron Byron

Byron was the elder son of Colonel Wilfrid Byron, of Perth, Western Australia, and of Sylvia Mary Byron née Moore, of Winchester, England, the only daughter of the Reverend C. T. Moore.

Saint Quentin

But, on the way, in a town named Augusta Veromanduorum (now Saint-Quentin, Aisne), Quentin miraculously escaped and again started his preaching.

Sea lion

In a highly unusual attack in 2007 in Western Australia, a sea lion leapt from the water and seriously mauled a 13-year-old girl surfing behind a speedboat.

Sir John Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone, 2nd Baronet

Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone married Louisa Augusta Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, daughter of the Most Reverend Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York.

Sir Peter Parker, 2nd Baronet

Sir Peter Parker, 2nd Baronet (England, 1785 – 31 August 1814, Fairlee, Maryland) was an English naval officer, the son of Vice-Admiral Christopher Parker and Augusta Byron.

Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp

Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp (born: 5 December 1630 in Gottorp; died: 12 December 1680 in Coswig) was a daughter van Frederick III, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp and Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony.

South Australian wine

Located in south central Australia, South Australia is bordered by the four other mainland states, (Western Australia to the west, Queensland to the north east, New South Wales to the east, Victoria to the south east), the Northern Territory to the north, and the Great Australian Bight forms the region's southern coastline.

St Peter's Church, Shoreham-by-Sea

The original church with that dedication was the town's first permanent Roman Catholic place of worship; founded in 1875, it was paid for by Augusta, Duchess of Norfolk, a member of the most important Dukedom in England.

Terry Budge

Terry Budge is an Australian banking executive and the current Chancellor of Murdoch University, located in the suburb of Murdoch, Western Australia.

Western Rufous Bristlebird

The bristlebird had a very restricted range, being found only in a stretch of coastal scrub about 50 km long between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Mentelle in south-western Australia.

WRDW

WRDW-TV, a television station (channel 12 analog/31 digital) licensed to serve Augusta

Wyndham, Western Australia

The construction efforts were interrupted by the Nevanas affair and World War I, but the meatworks were completed in 1919 to a design by William Hardwick who later became the Principal Architect of Western Australia.


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