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unusual facts about Howard, Queensland


Brooklyn House, Howard

Brookfield House is a heritage-listed residence in Howard, Queensland, Australia.


1984 Australian Sports Car Championship

Queensland based owner/driver Bap Romano won the series driving his Romano WE84 Cosworth from 1982 champion Chris Clearihan (driving the Kaditcha-Chevrolet that Peter Hopwood used to win the 1983 Championship) and Andrew Roberts driving a self designed Roberts S2 Ford.

Acacia argyrodendron

Acacia argyrodendron is found in central Queensland in the basins of the Cape, Suttor and Belyando Rivers on clay soils in areas where the annual rainfall ranges between 475 and 655 mm (19-26 in).

All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio

# "A Blossom Fell" (Howard Barnes, Harold Cornelius, Dominic John) – 5:15

Anne Boyd

Her father died when she was age 3, and her mother sent her to live with relatives on a sheep station (Maneroo) near Longreach, in central Queensland.

Areva Solar

Areva Solar is conducting a 44-MW solar thermal addition with CS Energy to the existing 750-MW Kogan Creek Power Station in Queensland, Australia.

Atlanta mayoral election, 1973

Other candidates were former Atlanta Police Officer John Chambers, Socialist Workers Party activist Debby Bustin, Hare Krishna community leader William Ogle, attorney John Genins, Betty Morrison, Ernest Moschella and write-in candidate Howard Tucker.

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 Plague Locust Commission

With 19 staff members at its headquarters in Canberra and field offices in Narromine, Broken Hill and Longreach, the Commission is funded half by the Commonwealth government and half by the Australian states of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland.

Barbara Jefferis Award

The Anatomy of Wings, Karen Foxlee, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, ISBN 978-0-7022-3616-7

Beverly Howard

Beverly Crusher, birth name of fictional character Beverly Howard in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation

Blanche Willis Howard

Howard was also an accomplished pianist and a friend of Richard Wagner.

Brandt Hershman

He currently serves as the Majority Whip and represents Senate District 7, which includes parts of White, Tippecanoe, Jasper, Clinton, Carroll and Howard Counties.

Celeste McCollough

She worked on the role of colour in flight simulation displays for the Air Force Human Resources Lab at Williams Air Force Base, Arizona (e.g., Howard, 1992; Howard, 1994; Howard, 1996).

Charismatic Episcopal Church timeline

Led by Dr. Robert E. Webber (Assoc. Professor of Theology at Wheaton University), along with Peter E. Gillquist, Thomas Howard, Richard Holt, Donald Bloesch, Jan Dennis, Lane Dennis, and Victor Oliver, the Conference discusses the need for evangelical Christians to rediscover and re-attach to the Church's historic roots.

Charles Crombie

Crombie was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 16 March 1914 to David William Alexander Crombie, a grazing farmer, and his Indian-born British wife Phoebe Janet (née Arbuthnot), the daughter of Lieutenant General Sir Charles Arbuthnot.

Charles Howard-Bury

A member of the Howard family, he was born at Charleville Castle, King's County, Ireland, the only son of Captain Kenneth Howard-Bury (1846–1885), son of the Honourable James Howard.

Cooper Grace Ward Lawyers

By the year 2000, Brisbane was fast growing as an alternative for business from Sydney and Melbourne as major international companies such as Virgin Australia, Boeing Australia, Mincom Limited and Billabong (clothing) set up their head offices in Queensland.

Evans v United Kingdom

In June 2000, Natallie Evans (born October 1971) and Howard Johnston (born November 1976) who had met while working at Virgin Mobile in Wiltshire became engaged.

Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham

On 23 June 1684, Lord Howard sailed from Virginia for Albany, New York with his daughter, Philadelphia, where he and New York Governor Thomas Dongan brokered a July peace treaty with the Iroquois.

Giant Malleefowl

It was described from Plio-Pleistocene deposits at the Darling Downs and Chinchilla in south-east Queensland by Charles De Vis, who erected the genus Progura for it.

Gordon Nuttall

In 2006 the CMC also began an investigation into a series of loans Nuttall received from Queensland mining magnate Ken Talbot.

Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival

The Festival is in the regional Queensland city of Gympie, just a two-hour drive north of Brisbane, along the Bruce Highway and a short 45 minutes drive from the beach at Noosa Heads.

Howard Goldfarb

Howard Goldfarb is a Canadian poker player, chiefly noted as the runner-up of the 1995 World Series of Poker (WSOP).

Howard J. Hunter, Jr.

His son, Howard III, sought to replace his father in the seat, but local Democratic Party leaders instead nominated retired court clerk Annie Mobley.

Howard Z. Plummer

After the death of Bishop Plummer on December 22, 1931 at a meeting of Church Officials held December 28, 1931 in Belleville, Elder Calvin S. Skinner consecrated Elder Howard Z. Plummer and proclaimed him as Leader of the Church of God and Saints of Christ.

I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You

Bing Crosby performed the song in the 1933 Mack Sennett film short Please in which he starred as Howard Jones directed by Arvid E. Gillstrom.

Jock Butterfield

Butterfield ended up playing in the Foley Shield competition for Mount Isa and Cloncurry in Queensland's outback until his retirement in the early '70s.

Jonathan Arking

However, a chance encounter with Dick Kernan from the Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts led him to take the News Director position at WTWR-FM in Monroe, Michigan.

Kalamazoo Civic Players

Founders of the theatre included Dorothy Dalton, Norman Carver Sr., Howard Chenery, Ruth Noble, Paul Fuller, Louise Carver, and Jean Huston.

Kalkadoon Grasswren

The specific epithet ballarae refers to the deserted mining town of Ballara, in north-western Queensland between Mount Isa and Cloncurry.

Laurence Dunmore

He left the course before completion to work with Howard Brown working for clients such as Richard Curtis (through Faber & Faber), Goldcrest Films and the Post Office, prior to joining Pentagram Design, when Brown became a partner in 1987.

M. William Howard, Jr.

Howard conducted Christmas services for the U.S. Embassy personnel held hostage in Tehran, Iran.

Maurice Colbourne

He is probably best remembered as Tom Howard, in the BBC Television serial, Howards' Way, which he played from 1985–89, until he died suddenly aged 49 from a heart attack while renovating a holiday home in Dinan, Brittany, France.

Music of Brisbane

Brisbane is a city in Queensland, Australia, home to many regionally important music institutions and venues.

Nelson Adams

He was listed in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities while attending Howard University, and is a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity, and a Life Scout of the Boy Scouts of America.

Nick Kruger

Nicholas James Kruger (born 14 August 1983, Paddington, New South Wales) is an Australian cricketer who has played First-class cricket for Queensland and List A cricket for Tasmania.

Patrick Wolrige-Gordon

He married Anne Howard, daughter of Peter Howard, in 1962 and became involved through Howard in Frank Buchman's Moral Re-Armament (MRA) movement, which attracted much negative comment.

Paul Stevenson

More recently, Stevenson has become politically involved and in the upcoming 2013 Federal Election he will stand as the lead Senate candidate in Queensland for the Australian Democrats.

Penelope Wensley

Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, she was educated at Penrith High School in New South Wales, the Rosa Bassett School in London (UK), and the University of Queensland where she graduated with a first class honours degree in English and French literature.

Peter Menegazzo

Partner in the Nebo Consortium (with Jack Cowin, founder of Hungry Jack's, and Queensland grazier Peter Hughes), Menegazzo became one of Australia's largest landholders, and the third-biggest cattle owner, with the $417.5 million plus debt sale, gaining 115,000 square kilometres and a herd of half a million cattle.

Popular Theatre Troupe

Their first production was Star Trick, a satire lampooning the Star Trek television series focussing on the absurdity of local Queensland politics interspersed with ironically sung old popular songs.

Port Lihou Island

The Zenobia entered Endeavour Strait in January 1823, and discovered a shallow port on the south coast of Prince of Wales Island, subsequently named Port Lihou.

QRL

Queensland Rugby League, the governing body of rugby league football in the Australian state of Queensland

Queensland Council for Civil Liberties

In 1968, one of the first moves by the Council to support freedom of speech in Queensland, was when council president Jim Kelly supported Brisbane's first Nationalist Socialist Party meeting.

Robert Stable

He has also held adjunct professor positions at the University of Queensland since 1997, and James Cook University since 2001.

Scott Alderdice

Scott Alderdice is a Shakespearean director, media producer and acting lecturer currently based at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.

Sea foam

Between 27 and 28 January 2013, the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, had masses of foam wash up on land from ex-tropical cyclone Oswald.

Thea Astley

She tutored at Macquarie University from 1968 to 1980, before retiring to write full-time, at which time she and her husband moved to Kuranda in North Queensland.

When the Light Is Mine: The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982–1987

# "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" (Howard Libov, shot December 1983 at Reflection Studios, Charlotte, NC)

William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford

Stafford was attainted and the family lost the title; the title of Baron Stafford was returned to the Howard line in 1824 with the attainder being reversed but the title of Viscount was extinct as there were no male heirs.


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