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Blackheath And Thornburgh College
Blackheath and Thornburgh College is a primary and secondary (K-12) school with boarding facilities at 55 King Street, Richmond Hill, Queensland, Richmond Hill, Charters Towers, Queensland, Charters Towers, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. History By 1918, representatives of the Methodist Church of Australasia, Methodist and Presbyterian Church of Australia, Presbyterian Churches had already met to consider establishing a college for North Queensland students under the auspices of the two churches. In 1918, Charters Towers mining magnate Edmund Harris Thornburgh Plant wanted to sell his mansion, Thornburgh House, with its extensive gardens and mature trees which formed an oasis of greenery in the parched environment of Charters Towers. So the church representatives approached Plant about the purchase of Thornburgh, but on hearing the Anglican Church of Australia, Anglican Sisters in Townsville were also interested in the property, the Presbyterian and Methodist c ...
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Richmond Hill, Queensland
Richmond Hill is a suburb of Charters Towers in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. In the Richmond Hill had a population of 2,488 people. History Unlike many townships in the Charters Towers area that developed around a goldfield, Richmond Hill was intended to be a residential area and was situated away from the mining areas. A number of schools opened in the area. St Columba's Primary School for girls was opened in 1876 by the Sisters of Mercy (a Catholic order). In 1882 the Sisters established St Mary's College. Later these schools were operated by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan (another Catholic order). On 14 April 1902 the Christian Brothers (also a Catholic order) opened Mount Carmel College for boys. In 1998 the three schools combined into Columba Catholic College operating from the three campuses (including the Mount Carmel campus in Richmond Hill); the church is now operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Townsville through Catholic Education. ...
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William Robert Black
William Robert Black (1859-1930) was an Australia mine-owner and philanthropist. He donated to establish many Presbyterian churches and supported schools, orphanages and other charitable institutions in Queensland. Biography On 20 November 1922, the Queensland Governor Matthew Nathan officially opened the Industrial School for Boys on a site between Moggill Road and Jerrang Road (now 724 Moggill Road, ) at Indooroopilly (now Chapel Hill). It was operated by the Salvation Army for orphaned, abandoned and neglected boys. The site was purchased for £2300 by Black and donated to the Salvation Army, He also paid £2700 to extend and renovate the buildings on site and for new furnishings. He also provided for £100 per annum for maintenance. When it opened, there were 35 boys under the supervision of the first superintendent, Ensign Rogan. The school could provide accommodation for 50 boys supervised by nine staff. In 1942 the school relocated to Washpool. As at 2021, the site is ...
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State Of Queensland
) , nickname = Sunshine State , image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Queensland , established_title2 = Separation from New South Wales , established_date2 = 6 June 1859 , established_title3 = Federation , established_date3 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Queen Victoria , demonym = , capital = Brisbane , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center_type = Administration , admin_center = 77 local government areas , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 = Jeannette Young , leader_title3 = Premier , leader_name3 = Annastacia Palaszczuk ( ALP) , legislature = Parliament of Queensland , judiciary = Supreme Court of Queensland , national_representation = Parliament of Australia , national_representation_ty ...
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CC BY Icon-80x15
CC, cc, or C-C may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * C.C. (''Code Geass''), a character in the ''Code Geass'' anime series, pronounced "C-two" * C.C. Babcock, a character in the American sitcom ''The Nanny'' * Comedy Chimp, a character in ''Sonic Boom'', called "CC" by Doctor Eggman Gaming * ''Command & Conquer'' (''C&C''), a series of real-time strategy games and the first game in the series * Crowd control (video gaming), the ability to limit the number of mobs actively fighting during an encounter Other arts, music, entertainment, and media * Cannibal Corpse, an American death metal band. * CC Media Holdings, the former name of iHeartMedia * Closed captioning, a process of displaying text on a visual display, such as a TV screen * Comedy Central, an American television network (URL is cc.com) Brands and enterprises Food and drink * Canadian Club, a brand of whisky * CC's, a tortilla chip brand in Australia Other companies * Stylized interlock ...
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Rugby League
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112–122 metres (122 to 133 yards) long with H shaped posts at both ends. It is one of the two codes of rugby football, the other being rugby union. It originated in 1895 in Huddersfield, Yorkshire as the result of a split from the Rugby Football Union over the issue of payments to players.Tony Collins, ''Rugby League in Twentieth Century Britain'' (2006), p.3 The rules of the game governed by the new Northern Rugby Football Union progressively changed from those of the RFU with the specific aim of producing a faster and more entertaining game to appeal to spectators, on whose income the new organisation and its members depended. Due to its high-velocity contact, cardio-based endurance and minimal use of body protection, rugby league i ...
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Zac Santo
Zachary Santo (born 8 April 1993) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who currently plays for the Limoux Grizzlies in the Elite One Championship. He plays at and , and formerly played for the North Queensland Cowboys and the Canberra Raiders. Background Of Indigenous Australian Italian and Ni-Vanuatu descent, Santo was born in Townsville, Queensland, and grew up in Charters Towers. He played his junior rugby league for the Charters Towers Miners and later the Townsville Brothers, and attended Blackheath and Thornburgh College. While at Blackheath and Thornburgh, Santo was a Queensland Reds scholarship holder. Playing career Early career In 2011, Santo joined the North Queensland Cowboys NYC squad on a trial and train contract and represented the Queensland under 18s team. That year he played in the Cowboys' 2011 NYC Grand Final defeat by the New Zealand Warriors. At the end of 2012, Santo won the Cowboys' NYC Player of the Year award. In 2013, Santo played ...
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William Graham Henderson Maxwell
William Graham Henderson Maxwell (known as Graham Maxwell) (30 November 1928 - 18 July 1999) was an Australian geologist and academic who did extensive research on the Great Barrier Reef. Early life Maxwell was born in Atherton, Queensland in 1928. He was the grandson of the Scottish born newspaper pioneer - he founded the '' Cairns Argus'', the Atherton ''News'' and the ''Barron Valley Advocate'' - William Graham Henderson (1864-1943). He attended Gordonvale State School and Thornburgh College in Charters Towers. He enrolled in the University of Queensland and took his B.Sc. with Honours degree in 1950. He was awarded a CSIRO scholarship to continue his studies. Maxwell was the first person to be awarded a PhD at the University of Queensland, in 1952, under the supervision of Dorothy Hill. He was awarded the Beit Fellowship for Scientific Research to Imperial College London in 1952. Career In the mid-1950s, Maxwell worked as a geologist for Shell in Trinidad. He also lec ...
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Nathan Fien
Nathan Fien (born 1 August 1979), also known by the nickname of "Fieny", is a former New Zealand international rugby league footballer who played as a and in the 2000s and 2010s. He last played for the St. George Illawarra Dragons in the National Rugby League. A former Queensland State of Origin representative or , he previously played club football with the North Queensland Cowboys and New Zealand Warriors before moving to St. George in 2009. He was a member of the 2008 World Cup winning New Zealand team and a member of the 2010 NRL (National Rugby League) Premiership winning St. George Illawarra Dragons. Fien played in all four of the Kiwi's 2010 Four Nations internationals at halfback, including scoring the match winning try in the 79th minute of the final. Fien's impressive late season form saw him winning the halfback spot in Rugby League World's 2010 team of the year. Background Fien was born in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. North Queensland Fien was educated a ...
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Queensland Heritage Register
The Queensland Heritage Register is a heritage register, a statutory list of places in Queensland, Australia that are protected by Queensland legislation, the Queensland Heritage Act 1992. It is maintained by the Queensland Heritage Council. As at 5 April 2020 there are 1790 places on the Queensland Heritage Register, including the Story Bridge in Brisbane and the Ross River Meatworks Chimney in Townsville. Criteria For a place to be entered in the register, it must be nominated and then go through a process of assessment. There are three categories for inclusion: * State Heritage Place (the most common type of entry), e.g. the Charters Towers Courthouse * Archaeological Place, e.g. the First Brisbane Burial Ground in the vicinity of Skew Street, Brisbane * Protected Area, e.g. the shipwreck of the on Fraser Island Criteria for inclusion as a State Heritage Place For inclusion as a State Heritage Place on the Queensland Heritage Register, the place must satisfy one of the fo ...
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Blackheath College, Circa 1947
Blackheath may refer to: Places England *Blackheath, London, England ** Blackheath railway station **Hundred of Blackheath, Kent, an ancient hundred in the north west of the county of Kent, England *Blackheath, Surrey, England ** Hundred of Blackheath, Surrey ** Blackheath SSSI, Surrey, a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest *Blackheath, West Midlands, England Other places * Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia *Black Heath, Virginia, USA, a late 18th and 19th century plantation and coal mine *Blackheath, Gauteng, in Johannesburg, South Africa Education * Blackheath College (other) * Blackheath High School, Blackheath Village in London, England * Blackheath Proprietary School, a former school in Greenwich, London, England Other uses * Blackheath Rugby Club * Blackheath Common, Waverley, England * Blackheath Beds, a fossiliferous stratigraphic unit in England * Plantman Plantman is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books p ...
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Great Depression In Australia
Australia suffered badly during the period of the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Depression began with the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and rapidly spread worldwide. As in other nations, Australia suffered years of high unemployment, poverty, low profits, deflation, plunging incomes, and lost opportunities for economic growth and personal advancement. The Australian economy and foreign policy largely rested upon its place as a primary producer within the British Empire, and Australia's important export industries, particularly primary products such as wool and wheat, suffered significantly from the collapse in international demand. Unemployment reached a record high of around 30% in 1932, and gross domestic product declined by 10% between 1929 and 1931. There were also incidents of civil unrest, particularly in Australia's largest city, Sydney. Though Australian Communist and far right movements were active in the Depression, they remained largely on the periphery of Austra ...
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