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7 unusual facts about The Age


2007 Australian Open

According to The Age newspaper, twenty police tried to quell the disturbance, which allegedly developed after an informal understanding between some Serb and Croat fans — that the two groups would not attend on the same day — was broken.

Australian Government Future Fund

In May 2011 the Future Fund was criticized by The Age newspaper for investing A$135.4 million in 15 foreign-owned companies involved in the manufacture of nuclear weapons for the United States, Britain, France and India.

Beyond Elysian Fields

Adam Morton of The Age complimented Cornwell's "clipped, dry delivery" on the songs "Under Her Spell" and "Beauty on the Beach", but added that "melodies wane and lyrics become laboured on later tracks" such as "24/7".

Charles Doudiet

In January 2012 an article in The Age newspaper discusses a theory that the work Swearing Allegiance to the Southern Cross is a forgery, although the writer concluded I don't for a minute believe that Doudiet's watercolours are fake, ....

Parables for Wooden Ears

In a November 2004 interview with Melbourne newspaper The Age, Fanning recalled that the head of Polydor Records had described the album as "awful", and remarked that "God knows what we were on then".

Warwick Fairfax

Fairfax is perhaps best known for its flagship titles The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Yenny Wahid

She obtained her bachelor degree in design and visual communication from Trisakti University in Jakarta, but upon graduation she went to work as a journalist for Australian newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.


Abortion in Australia

In a February 2005 ACNielsen poll, as reported in The Age, 56% thought the current abortion laws, which generally allow abortion for the sake of life, health, or economic factors, were "about right", 16% want changes in law to make abortion "more accessible" and 17% want changes to make it "less accessible".

Alan Missen

His death was recorded in The Age on 31 March 1986, including a tribute from the Prime Minister, Bob Hawke.

Bohdan X

Bohdan lasted on 3RRR for 17 years, interviewed in November 2006, he reflected on being a radio presenter and told Larissa Dubecki of The Age, "I said I wanted a punk show. Greig Pickhaver (later known as the comic HG Nelson) said to come down. They got me to come in at 11am and I was on air that afternoon. Volunteers were a lot harder to come by in those days. But I fitted right in; it was like a family".

Chips Mackinolty

As well as graphic design, Mackinolty worked as a correspondent for newspapers including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian and The Bulletin.

Council for National Security

Anonymous proxy servers through which Thai internet users could access a blocked webpage were also blocked, as were websites from BBC 1, BBC 2, CNN, Yahoo News, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, The Age, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, and Yale University Press containing articles about King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Dieu et mon droit

Versions of the coat of arms, with the motto, are also used by other newspapers, including Melbourne's The Age, Christchurch New Zealand's The Press, the UK's Daily Mail and the Toronto Standard.

Garry Lyon

He is a columnist for the newspaper The Age, and has co-authored children's books including those in the Specky Magee series with Felice Arena.

Gerard Ryle

He emigrated from his native Ireland in 1988 and has worked for the Fairfax newspapers The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.

James N. Farmer

James is currently based in Australia, where he has been the Online Community Editor of The Age, and Lecturer in Education Design at Deakin University.

Lamington

According to the Melbourne newspaper The Age, Galland cut up some left-over French vanilla sponge cake baked the day before, dipped the slices in chocolate and set them in coconut.

Louise Adler

She has also worked as the Publisher at Reed Books, Arts and Entertainment Editor for The Age, Deputy Director (Academic & Research) at the Victorian College of the Arts and CEO and Publisher of Melbourne University Publishing.

Mandy Ord

Her work has appeared in The Age, Meanjin, The Australian Rationalist magazine, Voiceworks, Tango, Going Down Swinging and Red Leaves / 紅葉.

Mark Harvey

On 13 June 2010 The Age newspaper journalist Emma Quayle revealed in her book Nine Lives: football, cancer and getting on with life on former Essendon Football Club player Adam Ramanauskas that Harvey had, 10 years earlier, suffered from a brain tumour.

Newspapers in Australia

Other notable newspapers are The Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph, The Age, and The Herald Sun (Melbourne).

Prime Ministers Avenue

Peter Nicholson: born in 1946 in Melbourne; best known for his cartoons in the Nation Review, Financial Review and The Age.

Qu Tanzhou

According to The Age in January 2010 Qu Tanzhou was part of a high-level delegation of senior officials that traveled to the Antarctic, led by Xu Shaoshi, China's Minister for Land and Resources.

Sports Performer Awards

The Sports Performer Awards, supported by The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald and presented by Colonial First State, are one of the most prestigious and lucurative prizes in Australian sport, first awarded in 2007.

Thelma Forshaw

As a journalist she worked as a freelance writer and book reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian, The Bulletin (since defunct), Meanjin, Nation, and Quadrant.

Tim Blair

He has criticised the work of other journalists and bloggers, including Margo Kingston and writers Elizabeth Farrelly, Mike Carlton, Terry Lane, Mark Lawson, Tracee Hutchison of The Age and Robert Fisk.

Valerie Khoo

Khoo runs a weekly business blog called Enterprise which is published on the websites of the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Brisbane Times.


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Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea

his earliest memory was that he was an orphan from Bermondsey, in London, and that, at the age of five, in 1947, he was transported to Australia to find a new home.

Amanda Staveley

In 1996, at the age of 22 and without any training, Staveley borrowed £180,000 and bought the restaurant, Stocks, in Bottisham between Cambridge and Newmarket.

Ben Watton

Ben Watton's first professional stage appearance was at the age of 6, appearing as a mini Bobby Ball opposite the comedians Cannon and Ball in A Night of a Thousand Laughs at the Pavilion Theatre in Bournemouth.

Benish Mininberg

Benish Mininberg lived until the age of 94 and died in 1996 in Ramat Gan.

Carlos Lapetra

He settled in Huesca subsequently, working in directorial capacities with SD Huesca and the Spanish national team and dying on 24 December 1995 at the age of 57, due to cancer.

Carol Alvarado

Her political activism began at the age of 12, when she assisted her godfather's campaign for the Houston City Council District I. Prior to formally entering public life, Alvarado worked in City Hall as a Senior Executive Assistant to Houston Mayor Lee P. Brown.

Clifford Bias

Born in Huntington, West Virginia in 1910, he claimed that since the age of five he had been able to communicate with people who had long since died.

Daniel S. Mitchell

Born in 1838 in York County, Maine, Mitchell began his photographic career as an errand boy in a daguerreotype gallery in Maine at the age of nine.

David R. Ross

At the age of about 15, he became interested in the novels of Nigel Tranter, that inspired him to grow an interest in the history of Scotland, as he realised that the history curriculum in British schools was told from an England-centric perspective that ignored (or nearly so) the individual histories of the other countries forming the United Kingdom.

David Saxe

Writing and developing acts came naturally to David and at the age of 17, he launched his sister's show Melinda Saxe - First Lady of Magic at Bourbon Street Hotel and Casino making him the youngest producer in Las Vegas’ history.

DCFS

Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), British government department responsible for all issues affecting people up to the age of 19 including child protection and education

Disappearance of Ben Needham

Ben Needham (born 29 October 1989 in Sheffield) disappeared on 24 July 1991 at the age of 21 months from the Greek island of Kos.

Edward Irving

See also Hazlitt's Spirit of the Age; Coleridge's Notes on English Divines; Carlyle's Miscellanies, and Carlyle's Reminiscences, vol.

Farida Osman

She started swimming at the age of 5 alongside of her brother Ahmed Osman, currently a UC Berkeley Student, at the Gezira Sporting Club.

Frederick Esling

At the age of 18, Esling won an offhand game against Adolf Anderssen.

Frederick Thornhill

Just over a month later, Thornhill died at the age of 29 at Toton Sidings, the largest marshalling yards of the Midland Railway.

George Clarke Chandler

George Clarke Chandler was born in Ontario, March 18, 1906 and died in Vancouver, BC April 20, 1964 at the age of 56.

Georges Guibourg

Born at Mantes-la-Ville, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, he began studying the piano at the age of 11 and at age 16 went to Paris where he performed on stage, singing extracts of traditional operettas and lovesongs.

Ingrid Losert

Losert followed her father Joseph and brother Roland, both Olympic fencers, and started training in the age of seven.

Irvin Baxter, Jr.

According to his website, Mr. Baxter became intensely interested in Bible prophecy at the age of 20, when a visiting evangelist taught that the four beasts of the book of Revelation, chapter four, were Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

Jan Muršak

Muršak developed his skills in his hometown ice hockey club HDK Maribor where he played until the age of 17.

Javed Kodu

At the age of 13, he took part in his first film, Soddey Baaz, which included Pakistani actors including Sultan Rahi, Nanha, and Ali Ijaz.

Joachim Friedrich von Blumenthal

The son of Christoph von Blumenthal and his wife Dorothea von Hacke, and the first cousin of General von Königsmarck, he was educated privately by the family tutor Johannes Crüger from the age of 10, and then attended the Viadrina from 1622, at the age of 15.

Joanne Borgella

At the age of 13 she attended Union School in Haiti where her father, Dr. Joel Borgella, ran for President in the 2006 presidential elections.

Johann Georg Pisendel

At the age of nine, Johann Georg became a choirboy at the court chapel of Ansbach.

Jonathan Clare

Jonathan Clare's grandfather, John Clare, played Lancashire League cricket for Burnley for seven years, grandson having played sporadically in the competition since the age of fourteen, having made his debut in the competition as an opener in 2001, alongside professional representative, Dale Benkenstein.

Joseph Troski

By the age of 18, Troski began performing in clubs and restaurants throughout NYC's East Village and Brooklyn such as CBGB.

Lee Roberson

At the age of nineteen, he was called to a church in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, but he did not accept.

Leonaert Bramer

In 1614, at the age of 18, he left on a long trip eventually reaching Rome in 1616, via Atrecht, Amiens, Paris, Aix (February 1616), Marseille, Genoa, and Livorno.

Lorenz Florenz Friedrich von Crell

At the age of fourteen, he entered the University of Helmstedt where, after nearly a decade of taking courses offered by the philosophical and medical faculties, he took his M.D. in 1768.

Magnus Wolff Eikrem

Eikrem was born in Molde in the Norwegian county of Møre og Romsdal, and began his football career with his local club, Molde FK, before joining Manchester United at the age of 16 in 2006.

Mary Boland

For the remainder of her career, Boland combined films and, later television productions, with appearances onstage (including starring in the 1935 Cole Porter musical Jubilee), making her last Broadway appearance in 1954 at the age of seventy-two.

Mayo General Hospital

Eithne Kenny, mother of Taoiseach Enda Kenny and wife of Henry Kenny, died here at the age of 93 on 26 November 2011.

Mel Pender

What people don't know is he didn't run track until the age of twenty five while he was serving in Okinawa with the 82nd Airborne Division.

Michalis Kakiouzis

Kakiouzis began playing basketball at the age of 8, with the Ionikos New Philadelphia Youth Academy of Ionikos, Greece.

Mikey North

He was noticed by an agent at the age of eighteen whilst acting in a play at Scarborough Sixth Form College.

Nicolette van Dam

After finishing high school at the havo level at the age of 18, Van Dam went to study at HBO.

Ōmura Masujirō

After studying in Nagasaki, Ōmura returned to his village at the age of twenty-six to practice medicine, but accepted an offer from daimyō Date Munenari of nearby Uwajima Domain in 1853 to serve as an expert in Western studies and a military school instructor in exchange for the samurai rank that he was not born into.

Onra

He moved to France at the age of three and shortly after, lived between France and Côte d'Ivoire, where his mother was based for over twenty years.

Peter Daniel Young

At the age of nine, he moved to Mercer Island, Washington, near Seattle, where he graduated from Mercer Island High School.

Reuben A. Holden III

In 1910, at the age of 20, Holden won the National Intercollegiate title for Yale, defeating R. Thayer of Pennsylvania in the first round, Cullen Thomas of Princeton in the second, S. F. Raleigh of Princeton in semis and Arthur Sweetser of Harvard in the final.

Robert Morison

Born in Aberdeen, Morison was an outstanding scholar who gained his Master of Arts degree from the University of Aberdeen at the age of eighteen.

Sebastian Castellio

Having been educated at the age of twenty at the University of Lyon, Castellio was fluent in both French and Italian, and became an expert in Latin, Hebrew and Greek as well.

Simón de Rojas

He had rosaries made with seventy-two blue beads on a white cord, symbols of the Assumption and the Immaculate Conception, and also a reminder that Mary, according to the belief of the time, lived to the age of 72 years.

Sir William Dawes, 3rd Baronet

From the age of nine, William Dawes studied at the Merchant Taylors' School in London.

Sophie Gail

At the age of 19, she married editor Jean-Baptiste Gail (1755–1829) and had one son, Jean-François Gail.

Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart

At the age of 9, she was enrolled in the boarding school of the Benedictine nuns of the Monastery of St. Apollonia in Florence.

Timothy Littleton

Littleton died at the age of 70 and was buried in Temple Church.

UDC Finance Limited

(Heidelberg), a German banker who came to New Zealand at the age of 50 after fleeing Nazi Germany.

Zhao Yi

After apparently failing a local examination fourteen times, Zhao went on to earn his provincial degree in 1750 at the age of 23 on his second attempt, and later earned his metropolitan degree in 1761, placing third overall in his cohort behind Wang Jie and Hu Gaowang.