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unusual facts about Menzies


Menzies, Western Australia

Sir Colin Hannah KBE KCMG KCVO CB (1914-1978), air force Air Marshal and 19th Governor of Queensland


Angela Menzies-Wills

Angela Menzies-Wills is an Australian Actress from Melbourne known for roles in films such as Fantasm Comes Again, Felicity, Leonora,Pacific Banana and Coming Of Age.

Archie Forbes

Forbes was born in Delwood, Saskatchewan, Canada, the son of Alexander Menzies Forbes and Elizabeth Lilian Forbes (née Campbell).

Charles Spry

ASIO's first Director-General, Geoffrey Reed, had been due to retire in February 1950, but his appointment was extended until the Menzies Government could find a suitable replacement.

Crocoite

Other localities which have yielded good crystallized specimens are Congonhas do Campo near Ouro Preto in Brazil, Luzon in the Philippines, Mutare in Mashonaland, near Menzies in Western Australia, plus Brazil, Germany and South Africa.

Dudley B. Menzies Bridge

The American Concrete Institute recognized the joint venture company that built the Dudley B. Menzies Bridge with an Award of Excellence for Design and Construction in Concrete.

Eddie Ward

While in opposition during the early years of World War II, Ward was leaked evidence of the 'Brisbane Line' plan, the Menzies government's decision that, in the event of enemy invasion, Australia would have been defended by the concentration of Australian military forces on a line drawn from Brisbane to Adelaide, meaning that large tracts of Australia would have been abandoned to the Japanese.

Electoral district of Leederville

Millington ran for and won the new seat of Mount Hawthorn, whilst the Labor member for Menzies, Alexander Panton, and the Nationalist (formerly National Labor) member for Mount Margaret, George Taylor, were in the unusual position of battling for the metropolitan seat of Leederville.

Elspeth Campbell

It was during this divorce that she was introduced to Menzies Campbell by her barrister, future Conservative Member of Parliament Sir Nicholas Fairbairn.

EM News Distribution

The company is a joint venture between Eason News Distribution and Menzies News Distribution (owned by John Menzies plc) and was formed in 2007 by the merger of their respective distribution businesses.

Fadden Government

In January 1941, Menzies flew to Britain to discuss the weakness of Singapore's defences and sit with Winston Churchill's British War Cabinet.

Glyn Davis

Internationally, Davis is an immediate chair past of Universitas 21, a grouping of 24 leading universities from around the globe, a member of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities, a member of the Hong Kong Grants Commission until 31 December 2010 and a director of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College London.

Gordon MacWhinnie

Gordon Menzies MacWhinnie (sometimes spelled as Macwhinnie) was born in Tramore, Ireland, his father having relocated from Scotland.

Gregory Sierra

The actor later went on to star as Dr. Tony Menzies on the unsuccessful sitcom A.E.S. Hudson Street.

H. Stuart Menzies

Menzies initially worked for Fortnum and Mason running their Invalid Delicasies Food Department before becoming a copywriter and producing the Commentaries for Fortnum & Mason - a new style of direct mail booklets illustrated by W Hendy, Menzies and Edward Bawden.

Hayden Island, Portland, Oregon

In 1792, the island was discovered by Lieutenant William Robert Broughton, commander of the Royal Navy survey brig HMS Chatham, who named it Menzies, after the botanist of his ship Archibald Menzies and naming Vancouver after his commander George Vancouver.

Ivan Menzies

Later, Menzies became a leader of the Moral Re-Armament movement in Australia and Britain, and he continued to perform on stage until 1962.

Joe Hill-Gibbins

Hill-Gibbins directed his first professional production, Wallace Shawn’s A Thought In Three Parts, as winner of the 2002 James Menzies-Kitchen Trust Award for young directors.

John McEwen

When Menzies' successor, Harold Holt, was officially presumed dead on 19 December 1967, the Governor-General Lord Casey sent for McEwen and he was sworn in as Prime Minister, on the understanding that his commission would continue only so long as it took for the Liberals to elect a new leader.

John W. Menzies

Menzies served as a judge of the chancery court from 1873 to 1893 and afterwards resumed practicing law until his death in Falmouth, Kentucky on October 3, 1897.

Menzies of Culdares

The title Menzies of Culdares was matriculated to his second son, Simon Menzies of Culdares, in 2006.

The title Menzies of Culdares came to prominence following the extinction of the main Menzies of Weem line in 1911.

Prospect Oval

Prospect Oval is a sports stadium located at Menzies Crescent, Prospect, South Australia.

Robert Menzies

Writer Gerard Henderson has rejected this theory, but history professors Judith Brett and Joan Beaumont support Day, as does Menzies' daughter, Heather Henderson, who claimed Lady Astor "even offered all her sapphires if he would stay on in England".

Steven Menzies

Menzies is much loved on Sydney's Northern Beaches, not only for his legendary achievements on the rugby league paddock, but also for his ability to avoid controversy in an era riddled with unsavoury off-field incidents involving rugby league players.

Menzies told BBC Radio Leeds: "I think I've still got a bit to offer and can play another 12 months.

Stuart Advertising Agency

While Menzies was an exceptional copywriter, Brumwell played a key role in liaising with leading contemporary artists of the time: Edward Bawden, Ben Nicholson, Edward McKnight Kauffer and Barbara Hepworth.

The Nostradamus Kid

It was originally announced that it would be made in the early 1980s with Paul Cox as director, Patric Juillet and Jane Ballantyne as producer, and Robert Menzies and Sarah Walker in the lead roles.

Tim Mensy

Timothy Ray Menzies (born August 25, 1959, in Mechanicsville, Virginia), known as Tim Mensy, is an American country music artist.

United Australia Party

A special War Cabinet was created;– initially composed of Menzies and five senior ministers (RG Casey, GA Street, Senator McLeay, HS Gullet and World War I Prime Minister Billy Hughes).

Warren McDonald

The Menzies Liberal Government appointed him to the Australian National Airlines Commission in 1952, operator of Trans Australia Airlines, of which he was chairman by February 1957.

Wellington Suspension Bridge

Aberdeen was undergoing rapid expansion in the early 19th century and landowners in Torry, the Menzies family of Pitfodels, wished to capitalise on the opportunities arising from the establishment of the turnpike road between Aberdeen and Stonehaven in 1799.

William Cameron Menzies

In 1929, Menzies partnered with producer Joseph M. Schenck to create a series of early sound short films visualizing great works of music, including a 10-minute version of Dukas' The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and created the production design and special effects for Schenck's feature film The Lottery Bride (1930).

At the 12th Academy Awards held on February 29, 1940, Menzies won an Academy Honorary Award "for outstanding achievement in the use of color for the enhancement of dramatic mood in the production of Gone With the Wind.

Zhou Man

The Australian geographer Professor Victor Prescott states that the structure at Bittangabee is considered by local archaeologists to be early 19th century and that Menzies misinterpreted the Waldseemüller map which he used as evidence for a visit by Zhou Man to the Americas.


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