Commercial Swimming Club is a swimming club that is based at the Fortitude Valley Pool in centre of Brisbane, Queensland.
After opposition MP John Cannis allegedly called him a racist in the House of Commons, he replied "Do you have the fortitude or the gonads to stand up and come across here and say that to me, you son of a bitch?"
Fortitudo (in English Courage or Fortitude) is in fact the name of one of the four cardinal Virtues of the Catholic tradition, and is a popular name in Italy for sport teams founded by religious organizations.
The ceiling cove is of Mosaic work and in addition to figures and symbols from Masonic ritual includes, in the corner, figures representing the four cardinal virtues – Prudence, Temperance, Fortitude, and Justice – and the Arms of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (youngest son of Queen Victoria) Grand Master 1901–1939, at whose suggestion the Masonic Peace memorial was built.
Showing up its surfeit of intestinal fortitude, the French government named its author a Chevalier of Arts and Letters in 1991.
He also carved the four Christian and four moral virtues including Fortitude on the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens.
The inspiration for the title track of Light at Days End came after Carter underwent emergency surgery after narrowly surviving a knife fight in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley.
Kirkus Reviews "For the 125th anniversary of the poets birth, here is neither hagiography nor pathography. Parini's life magnificently details how Frost, through fortitude and lifelong dedication to craft, sought to heed his own advice to be whole again beyond confusion."
Russo attended St Stephen's Primary School and later All Hallows' School in Fortitude Valley.
In Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy, Siger of Brabant is found in the Fourth Sphere of Paradise for being a positive example of Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Fortitude.