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unusual facts about Rhodes, New South Wales


Ryde Bridge

The Ryde Bridge, which is in fact two bridges, is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia that crosses the Parramatta River, linking the suburb of Ryde in Sydney's Northern Suburbs to the suburb of Rhodes in Sydney's Inner West.


Auskick

The AFL has used the Auskick program the introduce Australian rules football into schools and communities around the country to increase the AFL's profile in areas that traditionally support other football codes such as New South Wales and Queensland.

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.

Ben Fixter

Ben currently plays with the Charles Sturt University Football Club in the Farrer Football League, a semi-professional football league based in the Riverina region of New South Wales.

Charles James Melrose

Melrose Park in New South Wales and Melrose Park in South Australia are both suburbs named after him, as well as James Melrose Road, which travels along the southern boundary of Adelaide Airport.

Clarke brothers

Thomas (1840?-1867) and John Clarke (1846?-1867) were Australian bushrangers from the Braidwood district of New South Wales responsible for a series of high-profile robberies and killings in the late 19th century so notorious that they led to the embedding of the Felons' Apprehension Act (1866), a law that introduced the concept of outlawry and authorised citizens to kill criminals on sight.

Damatria

Damatria is a village on Greek island of Rhodes, located on the west coast, about 20 km far from the capital.

Dennis Charter

Charter began his music industry career in 1967 working at live band club venues in Melbourne such as Sebastian's and Berties and writing for Go-Set Go-Set magazine before establishing live music venues and promoting concerts of his own around Melbourne and throughout country regions of Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia.

Diadema palmeri

The species has also been found in other sub-tropical regions around the South Pacific at greater depths, including New Zealand's Kermadec Islands, and Australia's lower east coast - off Danger Point to Montague Island, New South Wales (at about 200 m), Lord Howe Island and the Norfolk Island Ridge.

Division of Hume

It extends from Cowra in the north to Wee Jasper in the south and parts of the Southern Highlands from Picton and Wilton in the east to Young and Cootamundra in the west.

Drayton House

There have been changes to the house in each century since, including works recorded by Isaac Rowe, John Webb, William Talman, Gerard Lanscroon, William Rhodes, Alexander Roos, George Devey and John Alfred Gotch.

Drosera falconeri

Isotype specimens, those that are duplicates of the holotype, were distributed to several herbaria, including those at the University of North Carolina, the New York Botanical Garden, the National Herbarium of New South Wales, and the Queensland Herbarium.

Edouard Oum Ndeki

Joseph Edouard Oum Ndeki (8 May 1976 – 7 March 2009 in Rhodes) was a Cameroonian footballer who last played for Rodos.

Edwin Cameron

He is the general secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships in Southern Africa (www.rhodestrust.org.za) and is a patron of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.

Elisha Hunt Rhodes

Rhodes' illustrative diary of his war service was quoted prominently in Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War.

Escort Way

Escort Way is a New South Wales state arterial road running from the western end of the Northern Distributor Road in Orange to Eugowra, where it becomes Eugowra-Forbes Road.

Fashoda Incident

When one draws a line from Cape Town to Cairo (Rhodes' dream) and another line from Dakar to French Somaliland (now Djibouti) by the Red Sea in the Horn (the French ambition), these two lines intersect in eastern South Sudan near the town of Fashoda (present-day Kodok), explaining its strategic importance.

Finley High School

Finley High School is a school with 486 students, located in Finley in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia.

Grevillea striata

In New South Wales, a tree still stands which bears an inscription in memory of a member of Charles Sturt's expedition in 1845.

Hadronyche formidabilis

Hadronyche formidabilis, the northern tree funnel-web spider, is a venomous mygalomorph spider found in Queensland and New South Wales.

HMAS Hawkesbury

Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) have been named HMAS Hawkesbury after the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales.

Ida Rhodes

Rhodes held numerous positions involving mathematical computations before she joined the Mathematical Tables Project in 1940, where she worked under Gertrude Blanch, whom she would later credit as her mentor.

Jack Rhodes

Leon Payne (Rhodes' step-brother) wrote "I Love You Because", which has been covered by — among others — Elvis Presley (Elvis Presley LP, 1956), Al Martino (Billboard Hot 100 #3, 1963), Jim Reeves (UK Singles Chart #5, 1964), Johnny Cash, Matt Monro and Slim Whitman.

Jenny Queen

Musicians on After The Dance include Jon Graboff of Ryan Adams and The Cardinals on pedal steel, Eric Silver on mandolin, Marc Swersky on bass, Justin King on electric guitar, Ehren Ebbage on acoustic guitar and Andy Letke of DeSol on rhodes piano and banjo.

John Towill Rutt

Concern for the reformers Thomas Muir, Thomas Fyshe Palmer and William Skirving led him to visit them as convicts on board the hulks, when awaiting transportation, and he sent papers and pamphlets to them in New South Wales.

Jonty Rhodes

Australia batted first, scoring 170, and Rhodes dismissed Craig McDermott via a run out.

Kielvale, New South Wales

Kielvale is a town located in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire.

Kim Rhodes

In 1997, while performing in Another World, Rhodes was nominated, along with Mark Pinter, for a Soap Opera Digest award as "Favorite New Couple".

M. C. Bradbrook

She held visiting professorships at numerous universities, including Santa Cruz, Tokyo, and Rhodes, South Africa, and received honorary degrees from many more.

Marist Sisters' College, Woolwich

Marist Sisters' College, Woolwich is a systemic Roman Catholic secondary school for girls', located in Woolwich, a Lower North Shore suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Marshall Rosen

Marshall Frederick Rosen, born 17 September 1948, in Paddington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is a former cricket player for New South Wales, and a member of the NSW Cricket Association Board.

Mogo

:For the town of the same name in New South Wales, Australia, see Mogo, New South Wales.

Murrumbidgee District

The Murrumbidgee District was a district (also called a squatting district, pastoral district or grazing district) used in New South Wales in the nineteenth century to refer to the land between the Murrumbidgee River and Murray River, that is now mostly known as the Riverina region.

Piero de Ponte

He became a Knights Hospitaller and was the Order's governor of the island of Lango when Rhodes fell to the Ottomans on New Year's Day 1523, and was still there in 1534 when he received the news of his election to the office of Grand Master of the Order, to succeed Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam at Malta.

Pomayrols

He illustrated itself, with his friends in arms by its bravery at the time of the defense of the fortress of Rhodes besieged by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1522, under the reign of Francis I of France.

Quantum Apocalypse

During routine administration at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Dr. Rhodes discovers that a comet has suddenly veered off its orbit and smashed into Mars.

Red-legged pademelon

In Australia it has a scattered distribution from the tip of Cape York Peninsula in Queensland to around Tamworth in New South Wales.

Robert E. Holmes

In 1978, Governor Rhodes appointed Holmes to the seat on the Supreme Court vacated when Frank Celebrezze was elected as Chief Justice.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Parramatta is a suffragan Latin Rite diocese of the Archdiocese of Sydney, established in 1986, covering the western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Rumex acetosella

From the 1950s, the New South Wales Soil Conservation Service undertook an extensive rehabilitation program for the vegetation of the Carruthers PeakMount Twynam area, which was in dire need of growth after a century of grazing.

Ruth McColl

Ruth Stephanie McColl AO (born 1950) is a judge of the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the highest court in the State of New South Wales, Australia, which forms part of the Australian court hierarchy.

Sanyog Mohite

The film was also screened at Ecofilms, Rodos International Film & Visual Arts Festival 2010 in Rhodes, Greece.

Sir Walter Buffalo Turf

Sir Walter Premium Lawn Turf is a variety of Australian-bred soft-leaf Buffalo Grass (Stenotaphrum secundatum) first developed in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales.

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.

Tenterfield Oration

The town of Tenterfield suffered from the disunited administration of the States, as it was distant from the New South Wales state capital of Sydney and rather closer to commercial centres across the border in Queensland.

The New Colossus

In the 2009 hip-hop song "The New Colossus" by Kinetics & One Love, rapper Kinetics loosely references lines from the Lazarus poem and raps about the Statue of Liberty as well as the Colossus of Rhodes, on which the poem is based.

Thomas Dewar Weldon

He then served as Rhodes travelling fellow in 1930, a civil servant in London from 1939 to 1942, and PA to Arthur Harris in RAF Bomber Command at High Wycombe from 1942 to 1945.

Wodonga railway station

The connection through to the standard gauge system across the Murray River to Albury was not completed for a few years, partly because the New South Wales standard gauge system had not yet extended as far south as Albury.

Zandra Rhodes

Rhodes continued her association with the San Diego Opera in 2004 when she designed the set and costumes for Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles.


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