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Topsy Smith
Topsy Smith (1875 – 15 April 1960) was an Arabunna woman born at Oodnadatta is a pioneer of Central Australia in the Northern Territory of Australia. She spent her life caring for Indigenous Australian, Indigenous children at an institution known as The Bungalow in Alice Springs. Early life, marriage and children Topsy Smith was born around 1875, the daughter of Mary Kemp, who was of Arabunna descent, from the Oodnadatta area, in northeast South Australia. She married a Welsh miner William "Bill" Smith who was working at the Arltunga, Arltunga goldfields. They had eleven children, the eldest of whom was bushman Walter Smith (bushman), Walter Smith. When Bill died in 1914, Smith decided to return to the Oodnadatta area, but only made it as far as Alice Springs, then known as Stuart. She was pregnant at the time and was accompanied by seven of her children and a herd of goats. Walter remained in Arltunga to work. Topsy and her children were assisted by pastoralists Jane and Ted H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard English pronunciation: ) is a commonly used English honorific for Woman, women, usually for those who are married and who do not instead use another title (or rank), such as ''Doctor (title), Doctor'', ''Professor'', ''President (government title), President'', ''Dame (title), Dame'', etc. In most Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth countries, a full stop (period) is usually not used with the title. In the United States and Canada a period (full stop) is usually used (see Abbreviation#History, Abbreviation). ''Mrs'' originated as a contraction (grammar), contraction of the honorific ''Mistress (form of address), Mistress'' (the feminine of ''Mister (Mr), Mister'' or ''Master (form of address), Master'') which was originally applied to both married and unmarried women. The split into ''Mrs'' for married women and ''Miss'' for unmarried began during the 17th century; the 17th century also saw the coinage of a new unmarke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stott
Robert Stott (13 July 1858 – 21 April 1928) was a constable and later police commissioner in the Northern Territory of Australia. Early life Robert Stott was born in the blacksmith's croft at Nigg in Kincardineshire, Scotland, the son of James Stott, a fishery overseer and his wife Catherine. Not much is known of his early life but it is believed that he was well educated and, before migrating to Australia, served in the Lancashire constabulary. Stott migrated, with three friends, to Australia in 1882. Career On arrival in the colony of South Australia in 1882, Stott joined the South Australian Police Force as a foot constable. transferring to the Northern Territory Police Force in 1883. In the Northern Territory Police Force Stott first became a mounted constable, 3rd class, who often went on long patrols. For a decade he was posted at Burrundie, Roper River, with some time spent at the Victoria River. As a mounted constable Stott travelled widely, by either horse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Alice Springs
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Philip's College (Australia)
St Philip's College is a private, coeducational school in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory of Australia. St Philip's is a Uniting Church co-educational Boarding and Day School for students in Years 7 - 12. The school motto is 'To Strive, To Seek, To Care'. The College is a member of the Round Square organisation and has a widely regarded Outdoor Education and Performing Arts program. St Philip's also performs well in overall academic results, with most students successfully obtaining NTCE and TER rankings. Notably, Edward Tikoft, a senior student at St Philip's College, achieved the highest overall ranking out of all NTCE students in the state in 2008. Facilities The college is situated on a single campus (a short distance north of the Alice Springs town centre and ANZAC The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) was a First World War army corps of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. It was formed in Egypt in December 1914, and operated during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House System
The house system is a traditional feature of schools in the United Kingdom. The practice has since spread to Commonwealth countries and the United States. The school is divided into subunits called "houses" and each student is allocated to one house at the moment of enrollment. Houses may compete with one another at sports and maybe in other ways, thus providing a focus for group loyalty. Historically, the house system was associated with public schools in England, especially full boarding schools, where a "house" referred to a boarding house at the school. In modern times, in both day and boarding schools, the word ''house'' may refer only to a grouping of pupils, rather than to a particular building. Different schools will have different numbers of houses, with different numbers of students per house depending on the total number of students attending the school. Facilities, such as pastoral care, may be provided on a house basis to a greater or lesser extent depending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renal
The kidneys are two reddish-brown bean-shaped organs found in vertebrates. They are located on the left and right in the retroperitoneal space, and in adult humans are about in length. They receive blood from the paired renal arteries; blood exits into the paired renal veins. Each kidney is attached to a ureter, a tube that carries excreted urine to the bladder. The kidney participates in the control of the volume of various body fluids, fluid osmolality, acid–base balance, various electrolyte concentrations, and removal of toxins. Filtration occurs in the glomerulus: one-fifth of the blood volume that enters the kidneys is filtered. Examples of substances reabsorbed are solute-free water, sodium, bicarbonate, glucose, and amino acids. Examples of substances secreted are hydrogen, ammonium, potassium and uric acid. The nephron is the structural and functional unit of the kidney. Each adult human kidney contains around 1 million nephrons, while a mouse kidney contains only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ida Standley
Ida Standley (19 January 1869 – 29 May 1948) was the first school teacher in Alice Springs, Australia. For 15 years, from 1914 to 1929, she worked at The Bungalow. Standley was appointed Order of the British Empire, MBE for her services to children's welfare. Early life Ida Standley was born Ida Woodcock on 19 January 1869 in Adelaide. She was one of the six children of Hanson Woodcock, a butcher, and his wife Bertha. She was educated at Misses Lucy and Florence Tilley's Hardwicke House Ladies' College and, then became a governess to the Standley family at Mount Wudinna Station on the Eyre Peninsula. Here she met her 35 year old farmer husband, George Standley, who she married on 12 August 1887 when she was 18. The couple had four children together before their marriage ended; around 1903. During their marriage Ida became a teacher and worked in a handful of one-teacher schools. In 1914 in South Australian Education Department advertised for a female teacher in Alice Spri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Springs Telegraph Station
The Alice Springs Telegraph Station is located within the Alice Springs Telegraph Station Historical Reserve, four kilometres north of the Alice Springs town centre in the Northern Territory of Australia. Established in 1872 to relay messages between Darwin and Adelaide, it is the original site of the first European settlement in central Australia. It was one of twelve stations along the Overland Telegraph Line. History European exploration of central Australia began in 1860. John McDouall Stuart successfully crossed the continent from north to south on his third attempt in 1863. He passed through the MacDonnell Ranges through Brinkley Bluff, although the terrain was considered to be too rough for the Overland Telegraph Line. The site of the Alice Springs Telegraph Station was first recorded by surveyor William Mills in March 1871, who was in search of a suitable route for the line through the MacDonnell Ranges. While surveying, Mills came across a waterhole, which was a sign ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Creek, Northern Territory
Jay Creek is in the MacDonnell Ranges west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory in Australia. It was a government reserve for Aboriginal Australians which for a time in the late 1920s and early 1930s included 45 children from a home named "The Bungalow"(37 of whom were under the age of 12) temporarily housed in a corrugated iron shed with a superintendent and matron housed separately in two tents. Jay Creek was home to the Western Arrernte Arrernte or Aranda (; ) or sometimes referred to as Upper Arrernte (Upper Aranda), is a dialect cluster in the Arandic language group spoken in parts of the Northern Territory, Australia, by the Arrernte people. Other spelling variations are A ... people. In 1937 Jay Creek was declared as one of three permanent camps or reserves for the Alice Springs Aboriginal population. It was intended a buffer between the semi-nomadic people living in far western regions and the more sophisticated inhabitants of Alice Springs and environ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Half-caste
Half-caste (an offensive term for the offspring of parents of different racial groups or cultures) is a term used for individuals of multiracial descent. It is derived from the term ''caste'', which comes from the Latin ''castus'', meaning pure, and the derivative Portuguese and Spanish word ''casta'', meaning race. Terms such as ''half-caste'', ''caste'', ''quarter-caste'' and ''mix-breed'' were used by colonial officials in the British Empire during their classification of indigenous populations, and in Australia used during the Australian government's pursuit of a policy of assimilation. In Latin America, the equivalent term for half-castes was ''Cholo'' and ''Zambo''. Use by region Australia In Australia, the term "half-caste", along with any other proportional representation of Aboriginality (such as "part-aborigine", "full-blood", "quarter-caste", "octoroon", "mulatto", or "hybrid") is generally used as a harmless descriptor but may be seen as highly offensive to some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal Australians are the various Indigenous peoples of the Australian mainland and many of its islands, such as Tasmania, Fraser Island, Hinchinbrook Island, the Tiwi Islands, and Groote Eylandt, but excluding the Torres Strait Islands. The term Indigenous Australians refers to Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders collectively. It is generally used when both groups are included in the topic being addressed. Torres Strait Islanders are ethnically and culturally distinct, despite extensive cultural exchange with some of the Aboriginal groups. The Torres Strait Islands are mostly part of Queensland but have a separate governmental status. Aboriginal Australians comprise many distinct peoples who have developed across Australia for over 50,000 years. These peoples have a broadly shared, though complex, genetic history, but only in the last 200 years have they been defined and started to self-identify as a single group. Australian Aboriginal identity has cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Goat Hill (Alice Springs)
Billy Goat Hill, or Akeyulerre, (in Arrernte) is located in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia and, together with the nearby ANZAC Hill, has important Dreaming associations include two sisters, alongside uninitiated boys, who were travelling north and were engaged in flirtatious and humorous behaviour these sites; further north these interactions became violent. These two hills are the most prominent in the Central Business District of Alice Springs and, as such have been extensively used by Europeans and, as such, Billy Goat Hill is now very close to major roads and, for many years, housed the towns water towers. History Billy Goat Hill is named for the billy goats that travelled in to town with Arabana woman, Topsy Smith, who briefly lived at the site before starting working at The Bungalow The Bungalow was an institution for Aboriginal children established in 1914 in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. It existed at several locat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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