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Dingley Dell (dwelling) motor racing circuit
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Dingley Dell may refer to: Places * Dingley Dell Conservation Park, South Australia, Australia ** Dingley Dell Museum, home of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870) * Dingley Dell (dwelling), a heritage-listed house in Robe, South Australia, Australia * Dingley Dell, Queensland, a neighbourhood in Camboon, Queensland, Australia Other uses * Dingley Dell, a fictional place in '' The Pickwick Papers'' * Dingley Dell F.C., an association football club in London in the late 1850s/early 1860s See also * ''Dingly Dell'', a 1972 album by Lindisfarne * Dingle Dell meteorite * Dingle Dell, a section of the Brands Hatch Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit in West Kingsdown, Kent, England, United Kingdom. Originally used as a grasstrack motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dingley Dell Conservation Park
__NOTOC__ Dingley Dell Conservation Park (formerly known as the Dingley Dell National Pleasure Resort) is a protected area in the Australian state of South Australia located in the state's south east in the gazetted locality of Port MacDonnell about north-west of the town centre of Port MacDonnell and about south of the city centre in Mount Gambier. The conservation park occupies land in Part Section 138 of the cadastral unit of the Hundred of MacDonnell. The land contains the cottage occupied by the poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon from 1864 to 1866. It was purchased by the Government of South Australia in 1922 at “the request of the Dingley Dell Restoration Committee.” The land originally gained protected status as a national pleasure resort proclaimed under the ''National Pleasure Resorts Act 1914'' and which was managed by the South Australian Tourist Bureau. On 27 April 1972, it was renamed as the Dingley Dell Conservation Park upon the proclamation of the ''National Parks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dingley Dell Museum
List of state heritage places in the District Council of Grant is a list of sites in the Australian state of South Australia known as state heritage places which are listed on the South Australian Heritage Register and are located within the boundaries of the local government area known as District Council of Grant in the state's south east. List of state heritage places Cape Banks Lighthouse Cape Banks Lighthouse () is located in the gazetted locality of Carpenter Rocks within the boundaries of the protected area known as the Canunda National Park. It was added to the state heritage register on 11 November 1999. Its significance is reported as follows:The Cape Banks Lighthouse is important in the maritime history of South Australia and the establishment of navigation aids during the late 19th century. It represents developments in lighthouse technology and design of the time. The lantern house, re-used from the original Cape Northumberland Lighthouse, is of particul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Adam Lindsay Gordon (19 October 1833 – 24 June 1870) was a British-Australian poet, horseman, police officer and politician. He was the first Australian poet to gain considerable recognition overseas, and according to his contemporary, writer Marcus Clarke, Gordon's work represented "the beginnings of a national school of Australian poetry". Early life Though commonly cited as having been born in Fayal in the Azores, where Captain Gordon had brought his wife for the sake of her health, Gordon's birthplace was the small English village of Charlton Kings near Cheltenham, where he was baptised. He was the son of Captain Adam Durnford Gordon and Harriet Gordon, his first cousin, both of whom were descended from Adam Gordon of Auchindoun, of the ballad "Edom o Gordon". Captain Gordon had retired from the Bengal cavalry and taught Hindustani. His mother's family had owned slaves in the British West Indies until the abolition of slavery in the 1830s, and had received significant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dingley Dell (dwelling) motor racing circuit
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Dingley Dell may refer to: Places * Dingley Dell Conservation Park, South Australia, Australia ** Dingley Dell Museum, home of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870) * Dingley Dell (dwelling), a heritage-listed house in Robe, South Australia, Australia * Dingley Dell, Queensland, a neighbourhood in Camboon, Queensland, Australia Other uses * Dingley Dell, a fictional place in '' The Pickwick Papers'' * Dingley Dell F.C., an association football club in London in the late 1850s/early 1860s See also * ''Dingly Dell'', a 1972 album by Lindisfarne * Dingle Dell meteorite * Dingle Dell, a section of the Brands Hatch Brands Hatch is a motor racing circuit in West Kingsdown, Kent, England, United Kingdom. Originally used as a grasstrack motorcycle circuit on farmland, it hosted 12 runnings of the British Grand Prix between 1964 and 1986 and currently host ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robe, South Australia
Robe is a town and fishing port located in the Limestone Coast of South Australia. The town's distinctive combination of historical buildings, ocean, fishing fleets, lakes and dense bush is widely appreciated. Robe lies on the southern shore of Guichen Bay, just off the Princes Highway. At the , Robe had a population of 998. Robe is the main town in the District Council of Robe local government area. It is in the state electorate of MacKillop and the federal Division of Barker. History Aboriginal use European use Robe, one of the oldest towns in South Australia, was founded by the colonial government as a seaport, administrative centre and village just ten years after the Province of South Australia was established. Robe was named after the fourth Governor of South Australia, Major Frederick Robe, who chose the site as a port in 1845. The town was proclaimed as a port in 1847. It became South Australia's second-busiest (after Port Adelaide) international port in the 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dingley Dell, Queensland
Camboon is a rural locality in the Shire of Banana, Queensland, Australia. In the Camboon had a population of 93 people. History The name ''Camboon'' is believed to be derived from the Aboriginal word ''caamboon'' meaning the bullrushes growing at the edge of waterholes. A post office opened on 1 June 1874 but closed on 16 October 1965. Camboon Provisional School opened about 1899 but closed in 1908 due to low enrolments. In 1910, the school was reopened but only operated half-time in conjunction with the newly opened Camboon Woolshed Provisional School. Both schools were closed in 1915. In the Camboon had a population of 93 people. Events Camboon hosts an annual campdraft Campdrafting is a unique Australian sport involving a horse and rider working cattle. The riding style is Australian stock, somewhat akin to American Western riding and the event is similar to the American stock horse events such as cutting, w ... every May. References {{Banana Shire Shire of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pickwick Papers
''The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club'' (also known as ''The Pickwick Papers'') was Charles Dickens's first novel. Because of his success with ''Sketches by Boz'' published in 1836, Dickens was asked by the publisher Chapman & Hall to supply descriptions to explain a series of comic "cockney sporting plates" by illustrator Robert Seymour (illustrator), Robert Seymour, and to connect them into a novel. The book became a publishing phenomenon, with bootleg copies, theatrical performances, Sam Weller (character), Sam Weller joke books, and other merchandise. On its cultural impact, Nicholas Dames in ''The Atlantic'' writes, “'Literature' is not a big enough category for ''Pickwick''. It defined its own, a new one that we have learned to call “entertainment.” Published in 19 issues over 20 months, the success of ''The Pickwick Papers'' popularised Serial (literature), serialised fiction and cliffhanger endings. Seymour's widow claimed that the idea for the novel was or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Dingley may refer to: Places * Dingley, Northamptonshire, England * Dingley, Missouri, United States * Dingley Island, Maine, United States * Dingley Village, Victoria, Australia * Stanford Dingley, a village in Berkshire, England * Dingley Hall, a hotel on Sodor (fictional island) Other uses * Dingley (surname) * ''The Dingleys'', an early South African television family drama See also * Dingley Act (shipping), an 1884 merchant marine law in the United States * Dingley Act The Dingley Act of 1897 (ch. 11, , July 24, 1897), introduced by U.S. Representative Nelson Dingley Jr., of Maine, raised tariffs in United States to counteract the Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act of 1894, which had lowered rates. The bill came into ..., an 1897 tariff law in the United States * Frank L. Dingley House, an historic house in Auburn, Maine {{DEFAULTSORT:Dingley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dingly Dell
''Dingly Dell'' is a 1972 album by English rock band Lindisfarne. Production The album was produced by and mixed by Bob Johnston, who had also worked on the earlier No. 1 album ''Fog on the Tyne''. However, the band were unhappy with the album, and remixed it themselves shortly before it was released.Dingly Dell ''lindisfarne.co.uk'' /ref> Release and chart performance Dingly Dell was released in September 1972. It spent ten weeks in the UK album charts, entering at No. 5 and never going above this position. Two songs from the album were released as singles, "All Fall Down" and "Court in the Act". The former was a minor success, charting at No. 34 in the UK, while the l ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
