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Dangin, Western Australia
Dangin is a small town in the wheatbelt region of Western Australia, about 7.7 (4.8 mi.) kilometres west-south-west of Quairading, in the Shire of Quairading. At the 2006 census, Dangin had a population of 283. Dangin is named after the nearby Dangin Spring, which is in turn thought to be an Australian Aboriginal place name meaning "place where the ''Djanja'' grows" – Djanja being a species of Hakea that grows in the area. The name was first recorded in 1863, as the name of the farm owned by Edward Read Parker, son of the first European settler in the region. In about 1900, E. P. Parker's son Jonah, into whose hands the land had passed, began subdividing the property, to allow development of an unofficial townsite. While the town was formally gazetted in 1902, Jonah Parker owned all of the surrounding land and access to the town was limited. Initially, the sale of alcohol was prohibited, although hospitality was provided by a "temperance hotel". By 1908, Quairading 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Dangin
Pascal Dangin () is a digital artist associated with retouching fashion photographs. He is the founder and chief executive of Box, a photo retouching business based in New York, United States. Early years In his youth, Dangin lived in small towns in Corsica with his family. His parents were musically talented yet Dangin was indifferent to music. Dangin had two sisters and a ''“tumultuous, itinerant childhood, which he does not like to recall”'' (Collins). Before he turned fifteen, Dangin left home and worked as a shampoo boy in a no-name salon in Paris’s Fifteenth Arrondissement. Dangin was drafted by the French Army and after serving for three months, was discharged and returned to Paris to continue his work as a hairdresser. Dangin moved to America in 1989, leaving Paris on New Year’s Day. While doing hair for photo shoots in New York, he became interested in the connection between cameras and computers. In 1993, Dangin accepted his first paid retouching job. The Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangin-dong
Dangin-dong is a '' dong'', neighbourhood of the Mapo-gu district in Seoul, South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed .... See also * Administrative divisions of South Korea Notes References * * External links Mapo-gu official website in Englishat the Mapo-gu official website Map of Mapo-gu at the Mapo-gu official website Neighbourhoods of Mapo District {{Seoul-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |