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Frances Gertrude Kumm
Frances Gertrude Kumm (1886 – 1966) was an Australian women's activist and philanthropist. She served leadership roles in the World YWCA, the Australian YWCA, the Australian Red Cross and the Victoria National Council of Women of Australia, National Council of Women. She was particularly active in responding to the needs of Asylum in Australia, refugees after World War II, and was a member of the Immigration to Australia, Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council. She was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1948. Early years Kumm was born Frances Gertrude Cato on 8 April 1886, in Collingwood, Victoria, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. The eldest of eight children, her father was Frederick John Cato, a successful merchant, and Frances Bethune, of New Zealand. Cato built a grocery empire, and settled his family in Toorak, Victoria, Toorak when Gertrude was two. Her father was very active in the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Australia, Wesleyan Church. Kumm w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
