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unusual facts about The Argus



Eastern Market, Melbourne

Two years later and the Eastern Market, wrote The Argus, was called 'our Covent Garden' (a reference to the famous market at Covent Garden in London established by the Duke of Bedford in the 1600s).

Frederick William Haddon

Haddon resigned these positions in 1863 to accept an engagement with The Argus, Melbourne.

Kings Manor Community College

Local newspaper The Argus commented upon the irony of the school's first pupil to go onto the University of Oxford in the same year that Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls threatened the school with closure.

Tahbilk

A year later The Argus reported that Tahbilk had received a wine order from Queen Victoria.


see also

Alan McLeod McCulloch

He was art critic for the Argus in 1944-47 and after the war became art editor of the Australasian Post, to which he also contributed cartoons.

Argus Panoptes

Alternative rock band Ween's eighth studio album Quebec has a song entitled "The Argus", which refers to the Argus' many eyes.

ARGUS-IS

The ARGUS-IS, or the Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System, is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project contracted to BAE Systems.

Battle of Derne

The force finally reached the port city of Bomba in late April, up the coast from Derne, where the Argus, the Nautilus and the Hornet along with Captain Hull were waiting.

David Burton

David Burton (lawyer), professor at University of Maryland and partner of The Argus Group, see Americans For Fair Taxation

George Odgers

After the Argus closed in 1956 he was hired by the fledging television station GTV-9 and worked in its news production team.