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Backhouse Lecture
The Backhouse Lecture series has been given annually since 1964 as a presentation at Quakers Yearly Meeting in Australia. It is similar in themes and structure to the Swarthmore Lecture series in Britain. Also known as the ''James Backhouse Lecture'', as it is named for James Backhouse :''See alsfor two other James Backhouse botanists and nursery owners of York.'' James Backhouse (8 July 1794 – 20 January 1869) was a botanist and missionary for the Quaker church in Australia. His son, also James Backhouse (1825–1890), wa .... Past Lectures Further details on Quakers Australia's website. References Annual events in Australia Lecture series Quakerism in Australia {{Quakers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quakers
Quakers are people who belong to a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations known formally as the Religious Society of Friends. Members of these movements ("theFriends") are generally united by a belief in each human's ability to experience the light within or see "that of God in every one". Some profess a priesthood of all believers inspired by the First Epistle of Peter. They include those with evangelical, holiness, liberal, and traditional Quaker understandings of Christianity. There are also Nontheist Quakers, whose spiritual practice does not rely on the existence of God. To differing extents, the Friends avoid creeds and hierarchical structures. In 2017, there were an estimated 377,557 adult Quakers, 49% of them in Africa. Some 89% of Quakers worldwide belong to ''evangelical'' and ''programmed'' branches that hold services with singing and a prepared Bible message coordinated by a pastor. Some 11% practice ''waiting worship'' or ''unprogramme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Crook
Keith Alan Waterhouse Crook (3 August 1933 - 18 February 2020) was an Australian geologist and Clarke Medalist. Education Keith Crook attended Newington College (1944-1949) and the University of Sydney from whence he graduated as a Bachelor of Science in 1954 and a Master of Science in 1956. He then did a PhD at the University of New England from 1956 until 1959, followed by postdoctoral studies at the University of Melbourne and the University of Alberta, Canada, from 1959 until 1961. Teaching career In 1961, Crook took a position at the Australian National University (ANU) teaching sedimentology and stratigraphy. He undertook research in New Guinea and Tumut, New South Wales. This research was concerned with the tectonic development of sedimentary basins. In mid-1992 Crook was appointed to a position at the University of Hawai’i as Science Program Director of the Undersea Laboratory. He returned to the ANU as a visiting fellow in mid-2004, where he continued his research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annual Events In Australia , in biology
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Annual may refer to: *Annual publication, periodical publications appearing regularly once per year **Yearbook **Literary annual *Annual plant *Annual report *Annual giving *Annual, Morocco, a settlement in northeastern Morocco *Annuals (band), a musical group See also * Annual Review (other) * Circannual cycle A circannual cycle is a biological process that occurs in living creatures over the period of approximately one year. This cycle was first discovered by Ebo Gwinner and Canadian biologist Ted Pengelley. It is classified as an Infradian rhythm, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth E
Kenneth is an English given name and surname. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: ''Cainnech'' and '' Cináed''. The modern Gaelic form of ''Cainnech'' is ''Coinneach''; the name was derived from a byname meaning "handsome", "comely". A short form of ''Kenneth'' is '' Ken''. Etymology The second part of the name ''Cinaed'' is derived either from the Celtic ''*aidhu'', meaning "fire", or else Brittonic ''jʉ:ð'' meaning "lord". People :''(see also Ken (name) and Kenny)'' Places In the United States: * Kenneth, Indiana * Kenneth, Minnesota * Kenneth City, Florida In Scotland: * Inch Kenneth, an island off the west coast of the Isle of Mull Other * "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?", a song by R.E.M. * Hurricane Kenneth * Cyclone Kenneth Intense Tropical Cyclone Kenneth was the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall in Mozambique since modern records began. The cyclone also caused significant damage in the Comoro Islands an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Sansom
Clive Sansom (21 June 1910 – 29 March 1981) was an English-born Tasmanian poet and playwright. He was also an environmentalist, who became the founding patron of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society. Life and work Sansom was born in East Finchley, London, and educated at Southgate County School, where he matriculated in 1926. He worked as a clerk/salesman for an ironworks company until 1934, and then studied speech and drama at the Regent Street Polytechnic and the London Speech Institute under Margaret Gullan. He went on to study phonetics under Daniel Jones at University College London, and joined the London Verse-Speaking Choir. He lectured in speech training at Borough Road Training College, Isleworth, and the Speech Fellowship in 1937–1939, and edited the ''Speech Fellowship Bulletin'' (1934–1949). He was also an instructor at the Drama School of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Sansom married the poet Ruth Large, a Tasmanian, in 1937, at the Quaker Friends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudi Lemberg
Max Rudolf "Rudi" Lemberg FRS FAA (19 October 1896 – 10 April 1975) was a German-Australian biochemist who specialised in porphyrin structure and function. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA). Originally published in ''Records of the Australian Academy of Science'', vol.4, no.1, 1978. Also available aAAS/ref> First published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 15, (MUP), 2000. He was a director of the Kolling Institute of Medical Research from 1935 to 1972, establishing a major research focus on porphyrins, structures within molecules which give the red colour to blood Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells. Blood in the cir ... and the yellow colour to bile. He applied for naturalization as an Australian citizen in 1937. Rudi Lemberg Trav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas V
Douglas may refer to: People * Douglas (given name) * Douglas (surname) Animals *Douglas (parrot), macaw that starred as the parrot ''Rosalinda'' in Pippi Longstocking *Douglas the camel, a camel in the Confederate Army in the American Civil War Businesses * Douglas Aircraft Company * Douglas (cosmetics), German cosmetics retail chain in Europe * Douglas (motorcycles), British motorcycle manufacturer Peerage and Baronetage * Duke of Douglas * Earl of Douglas, or any holder of the title * Marquess of Douglas, or any holder of the title * Douglas Baronets Peoples * Clan Douglas, a Scottish kindred * Dougla people, West Indians of both African and East Indian heritage Places Australia * Douglas, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Douglas, Queensland (Toowoomba Region), a locality * Port Douglas, North Queensland, Australia * Shire of Douglas, in northern Queensland Belize * Douglas, Belize Canada * Douglas, New Brunswick * Douglas Parish, New Brunswick * Douglas, O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrie Pittock
Albert Barrie Pittock (born 1938) is an Australian climatologist, environment scientist, author, and advocate for the rights of Indigenous Australians. He was among the many recipients of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Early life and education Barrie Pittock was born in Warrnambool, and grew up in Camberwell, Victoria, Australia. After attending Camberwell High School, he studied at Melbourne University, and attained his PhD in physics in 1963. While there became concerned about the educational (and other) inequalities facing Aboriginal communities in outback Australia. Human rights From his teenage years onwards, but especially in the 1960s, Pittock was an active campaigner for Indigenous rights and educational opportunities for Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander people. As a member of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, he became the convener of its Legislative Reform group in 1966, which led to his extensive invol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Van Der Sprenkel
Otto Pierre Nicolas Berkelbach van der Sprenkel (1906 Bussum – 1978 Canberra) was a Dutch bibliographer, political scientist, and historian of China. Early life Born in the Netherlands, van der Sprenkel was raised in the UK and earned First-Class Honours at the London School of Economics. Career He held academic positions at the University of Toronto and SOAS. At Nankai University on a British Council appointment. He experienced the Chinese Communist Revolution, an experience that contributed to the book he co-authored (with Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker and Robert Guillain) ''New China, Three Views'' (1950). He returned to SOAS before moving to Australia to teach at the Canberra University College in 1956 and continued at the Australian National University when the college was amalgamated. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1969. He retired in 1971. His attempt at compiling a comprehensive bibliography of Chinese hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swarthmore Lecture
Swarthmore Lecture is one of a series of lectures, started in 1908, addressed to Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The preface to the very first lecture explains the purpose of the series. “This book is the first of a series of public addresses to be known as the Swarthmore Lectures. The Lectureship was established by the Woodbrooke Extension Committee, at a meeting held December 9th, 1907. The Minute of the Committee provides for “an annual lecture on some subject relating to the Message and Work of the Society of Friends.” The name “ Swarthmore” was chosen in memory of the home of Margaret Fox, which was always open to the earnest seeker after Truth, and from which loving words of sympathy and substantial material help were sent to fellow-workers. “The Woodbrooke Extension Committee requested Rufus M. Jones, M.A., D.Litt., of Haverford College, Pennsylvania, to give the first lecture on the evening preceding the holding of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hector Kinloch
Hector Gilchrist Lusk Mactaggart Kinloch (14 December 1927 – 6 August 1993) was an American-born Australian academic and politician. Biography He was born Boston, Massachusetts in 1927. He travelled to England, where he graduated from Christ's College, Cambridge with first class honours in history in 1949. After graduating he served in the US Army for three years. In 1960 he moved to Australia and lectured in history at the University of Adelaide. From 1965-1968 he was Visiting Fulbright Professor of US History at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur. He joined the Australian National University in Canberra in 1968 and remained there until 1988. He helped establish the National Association for Gambling Studies and was a vociferous critic of the proposed Casino Canberra. Given his anti-gambling stance he was invited by Bernard Collaery of the Residents Rally to be a candidate in the inaugural ACT Legislative Assembly election. He was elected in 1989 and retire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Priestland
Gerald Francis Priestland (26 February 1927 – 20 June 1991) was a foreign correspondent, presenter and, later, a religious commentator for the BBC. Early life and work Gerald Priestland was the son of (Joseph) Francis ('Frank') Edwin Priestland, Cambridge-educated publicity manager at Berkhamsted agricultural chemical business Cooper's (later Cooper, McDougall and Robertson- now part of GlaxoSmithkline), and a lieutenant in the Machine Gun Corps during the First World War, and Ellen Juliana, daughter of Colonel Alexander McWhirter Renny, of the 7th Bengal Lancers. The owner of Cooper's was Frank Priestland's brother-in-law Sir Richard Ashmole Cooper, 2nd Baronet (married to his sister Alice). Frank Priestland's father, Rev. Edward Priestland, was headmaster of Spondon House School in Derbyshire, having taken over from his father-in-law, Rev. Thomas Gascoigne. Gerald Priestland was educated at Charterhouse and New College, Oxford. He began his work at the BBC with a six-mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
