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  • Thumbnail for Great Train Robbery (1963)
    The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.61 million (calculated to present-day value of £58 million - or $73,547,750), from a Royal Mail train heading...
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    Apsley River, a perennial stream of the Macleay River catchment, is located in the Northern Tablelands district of New South Wales, Australia. Apsley River...
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    Myall Lakes, a series of fresh water lakes protected under the Ramsar Convention, are located within the Mid-Coast Council local government area in the...
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  • Thumbnail for Glenrock Lagoon
    Glenrock Lagoon, an intermediate fresh water small coastal creek, is located within the Lake Macquarie local government area in the Newcastle and Hunter...
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  • Wikinews has related news: Wikinews interviews Brian Moore, Socialist Party USA presidential candidate The 2008 presidential campaign of Brian Patrick...
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  • Thumbnail for Bundjalung National Park
    The Bundjalung National Park is a 210-square-kilometre (81 sq mi) national park located on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, 554 kilometres...
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  • Below is a list of Edison patents. Thomas Edison was an inventor who accumulated 2,332 patents worldwide for his inventions. 1,093 of Edison's patents...
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    Bunyip is a town in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, 81 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Shire of Cardinia local...
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  • Robert Duncan Drewe (born 9 January 1943) is an Australian novelist, non-fiction and short story writer. Robert Drewe was born on 9 January 1943 in Melbourne...
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    The Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 (c. 1) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which creates an offence in England and Wales of inciting...
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  • The First Stone: Some questions about sex and power is a controversial non-fiction book by Helen Garner about a 1992 sexual harassment scandal at Ormond...
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  • The Mount Arapiles-Tooan State Park is a state park in the Wimmera plains of western Victoria, Australia. It encompasses Mount Arapiles, Mitre Rock, and...
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  • Keith Bruce Campbell QC (25 October 1916 – 1990) was a British circuit judge. As a barrister, he had earlier practised in family law, and during a brief...
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  • The 1979 Easter Sunday Herman Hill riot in Wichita, Kansas, United States – a confrontation between 500 law-enforcement personnel (from Wichita and surrounding...
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  • The Libyan hostage situation began on the morning of the murder of police constable Fletcher, 17 April 1984 and lasted until 5 February 1985 (294 days)...
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  • Mick Rix (born 11 April 1963 in Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire) is a British trade unionist and politician. Rix is the former General Secretary of...
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  • Peter O'Hagan was an Irish Nationalist politician who sat as a Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) Councillor on Lisburn City Council. He was one...
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  • Vitali Yevgenyevich Dyomochka (Russian: Вита́лий Евге́ньевич Дёмочка; born 5 December 1970), also known as Bondar, is a Russian director, writer, and actor...
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  • John Wilfrid da Cunha (6 September 1922 – 12 May 2006) was a British barrister and circuit judge. He was a member of the British delegation to the Nuremberg...
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