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unusual facts about Hume, Australian Capital Territory


Environa, New South Wales

It lies just east of the Queanbeyan-Cooma railway line as it goes past the industrial estate of Hume, ACT.


Alexander Rosenberg

Rosenberg also coauthored an influential book on David Hume with Tom Beauchamp, Hume and the Problem of Causation, arguing that Hume was not a skeptic about induction but an opponent of rationalist theories of inductive inference.

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.

Alison Gopnik

In 2009, Gopnik published a paper in Hume Studies arguing that the historical record regarding the circumstances around David Hume's authoring of A Treatise of Human Nature are wrong.

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.

Basic American Foods

The company is led by Jack and Bill Hume's sons, George and Jerry.

Benjamin Heath

The Essay towards a Demonstrative Proof of the Divine Existence, Unity and Attributes (1740) was intended to combat the opinions of Voltaire, Rousseau and Hume.

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.

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.

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.

Cluster chemistry

The suffix “oid” designate that such clusters possess at a molecular scale, atom arrangements that appear in bulk intermetallic compounds with high coordination numbers of the atoms such as for example in Laves phase and Hume-Rothery phases.

Colette Hume

Colette Hume is the Education Correspondent for BBC Wales Today as well as a network stand-in for Wales Correspondent Wyre Davies for BBC News network services.

David Alan Johnson

In his first book, Hume, Holism, and Miracles, Johnson purports to have refuted David Hume's popular argument for the irrationality of belief in testimony of miracles (as can be found in his essay entitled "Of Miracles") as well as several reconstructions of Hume's argument (most notably that of Bayesian philosopher Jordan Howard Sobel).

David Caldicott

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

Diane Arkenstone

With Misha Segal and Peter Hume she worked on the 3-CD collaboration Christmas Healing.

Dick Spring

Both were helped considerably by the initiative of John Hume, and the understanding built up between Reynolds, and British Prime Minister John Major.

Donnie Hume

Donald Corbin Hume (born August 29, 1985 in Fairfield, California) is a retired professional baseball pitcher.

Edward H. Hume

From 1903-1905 Hume was in Bombay as an Acting Assistant Surgeon in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service to monitor the Plague outbreak that had started in 1896.

Fact–value distinction

Other thinkers reject an absolutist fact-value distinction by contending that our senses are impregnated with prior conceptualizations, making it impossible to have any observation that is totally value-free, which is how Hume and the later positivists conceived of facts.

Gary Hume

Hume abandoned doors in the mid-1990s, turning to paintings in household gloss paint on aluminium panel, for these often used appropriated images, including pictures of celebrities (e.g. DJ Tony Blackburn) and animals.

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.

George Steuart Hume

After Hume's death in c1788, his infant daughter Sophia inherited his estates of Argaty, Ballachallan and Annat.

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.

Gua-Le-Ni; or, The Horrendous Parade

By means of fantastic beasts of the same combinatorial nature as Hume’s Pegasus, Gua-Le-Ni; or, The Horrendous Parade asks the players to twist the creative capabilities described in the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding on their heads and use them as game mechanics: impossible paper beasts will parade across the screen (the page of a fantastic bestiary) only to be recognized as combinations of parts of existing animals.

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.

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.

Human science

Dilthey brought nineteenth-century attempts to formulate a methodology appropriate to the humanistic sciences together with Hume's term "moral science", which he translated as Geisteswissenschaft - a term with no exact English equivalent.

Hume's Treecreeper

The Hume's Tree-creeper, (Certhia manipurensis) was earlier included within the Brown-throated Treecreeper complex and identified as a separate species on the basis of their distinctive calls.

James Hume Cook

Hume Cook was born in Kihikihi, New Zealand, son of a failed farmer and he had to leave school at 13 to work selling books.

Jon Hume

In May 2012 Hume was featured on the Hook N Sling song "Surrender," which he co-wrote from his studio in rural Victoria (The Stables Recording Studio).

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.

Kulikalon Lakes

These include Himalayan Snowcocks, Saker Falcons, Himalayan Vultures, Solitary Snipe, Yellow-billed Choughs, Hume's Larks, Sulphur-bellied Warblers, Wallcreepers, White-winged Redstarts, Brown Accentors, Water Pipits, Crimson-winged Finches and White-winged Grosbeaks.

Lord Hume of Berwick

The title was first created as Baron Hume of Berwick in the Peerage of England on 7 July 1604, for George Home, Lord Treasurer of Scotland, member of the English Privy Council, and Keeper of the Great Wardrobe.

Maria Alford

On 10 February she was married at Castle Ashby to John Hume Cust, viscount Alford, elder son of John Cust, first Earl Brownlow, and the heir to a portion of the large estates of Francis Egerton, third and last Duke of Bridgewater.

Matt Hume

Hume founded the American Martial Arts Center (AMC) in Kirkland, WA soon after graduating from college and is currently home to Demetrious Johnson, Bibiano Fernandes, Tim Boetsch, Caros Fodor and numerous other world class fighters.

Metallic bonding

The almost-free electron model was eagerly taken up by some researchers in this field, notably Hume-Rothery in an attempt to explain why certain intermetallic alloys with certain compositions would form and others would not.

Mick Hume

Mick Hume was the editor of LM Magazine (which he launched, originally as Living Marxism, in 1988) until it was forced to close in 2000 after losing a libel suit brought by ITN over claims that the magazine had made concerning ITN's reporting of Bosnia's Trnopolje camp.

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).

Peter Hume Brown

In the year the first volume was published, 1898, Hume Brown was asked to succeed David Masson, his old teacher, as editor of the Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, which not only brought him financial security, but untrammelled access to historically crucial 17th century documents.

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.

Samuel Hume Blake

Samuel Hume Blake (31 August 1835 – 23 June 1914) was the son of William Hume Blake, an Irish-Canadian jurist and politician, and the brother of Edward Blake, the second Premier of Ontario.

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).

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

William Snell Chauncy

In 1868 Chauncy was appointed road superintendent at Goulburn, New South Wales with one of his responsibilities being improvements to the main Sydney to Melbourne Road (now the Hume Highway).

Willie Hume

Hume's achievements were celebrated in 1938 when Cycling Weekly, then known simply as Cycling awarded him his own page in the Golden Book of Cycling.

Young Bengal

: free will, free ordination, fate, faith, the sacredness of truth, the high duty of cultivating virtue, and the meanness of vice, the nobility of patriotism, the attributes of God, and the arguments for and against the existence of the deity as these have been set forth in Hume on one side, and Reid, Dugald Stewart and Brosn on the other, the hollowness of idolatry and the shames of priesthood.

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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