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Where The Pelican Builds And Other Poems
''Where the Pelican Builds and Other Poems'' (1885) was the first, and only major, collection of poems by Australian poet Mary Hannay Foott. It was released in hardback by Gordon and Gotch publishers, Brisbane, in 1885. It features the poet's best-known work, "Where the Pelican Builds". The collection was republished in London in 1890 under the title ''Morna Lee and Other Poems'', with several additional works. The original collection includes 30 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources. Contents * "Where the Pelican Builds" * "Up North" * "In the Land of Dreams" * "Happy Days ''Happy Days'' is an American television sitcom that aired first-run on the ABC network from January 15, 1974, to July 19, 1984, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning 11 seasons. Created by Garry Marshall, it was one of the most su ..." * "In the South Pacific" * "In Time of Drought" * "The Aurora Australis" * "Wentworth" * "Nearing Port" * "The Future of Australia" * ...
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Mary Hannay Foott
Mary Hannay Foott (pen name, La Quenouille; 26 September 1846 – 12 October 1918), was a Scottish-born Australian poet and editor. She is well remembered for a bush-ballad poem,"Where the Pelican Builds". Early life Mary Hannay Foott was born in Glasgow to a merchant, James Black, and his wife, ''née'' Grant. The family moved to Australia in 1853 and lived for some years at Mordialloc, Victoria, Mordialloc, near Melbourne, where Mary attended Miss Harper's school. She became one of the first students at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria Art School. She also studied painting under Louis Buvelot. Writings In 1874, Mary married Thomas Wade Foott, with whom she lived for three years in Bourke, New South Wales. In 1877, her husband took her up-country, to the Paroo River in South West Queensland. Her experiences there are described in one of her poems, "New Country", and her next seven years in that country had a great influence on her writings. Her husband died in 1884 thro ...
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English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ...
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Hardback
A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather). It has a flexible, sewn spine which allows the book to lie flat on a surface when opened. Modern hardcovers may have the pages glued onto the spine in much the same way as paperbacks. Following the ISBN sequence numbers, books of this type may be identified by the abbreviation Hbk. Hardcover books are often printed on acid-free paper, and they are much more durable than paperbacks, which have flexible, easily damaged paper covers. Hardcover books are marginally more costly to manufacture. Hardcovers are frequently protected by artistic dust jackets, but a "jacketless" alternative has increased in popularity: these "paper-over-board" or "jacketless" hardcover bindings forgo the dust jacket in favor of printing the cover ...
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Poems
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the ''Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns (the Sanskrit ''R ...
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Hardback
A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather). It has a flexible, sewn spine which allows the book to lie flat on a surface when opened. Modern hardcovers may have the pages glued onto the spine in much the same way as paperbacks. Following the ISBN sequence numbers, books of this type may be identified by the abbreviation Hbk. Hardcover books are often printed on acid-free paper, and they are much more durable than paperbacks, which have flexible, easily damaged paper covers. Hardcover books are marginally more costly to manufacture. Hardcovers are frequently protected by artistic dust jackets, but a "jacketless" alternative has increased in popularity: these "paper-over-board" or "jacketless" hardcover bindings forgo the dust jacket in favor of printing the cover ...
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Where The Pelican Builds
''Where the Pelican Builds'' is a poem by Australian poet Mary Hannay Foott. It was first published in '' The Bulletin'' magazine on 12 March 1881, and later in the poet's collection ''Where the Pelican Builds and Other Poems'' (1885). E. S. Wilkinson, in "The Brisbane Courier" in 1932, writes that the poem was inspired by the story of two brothers, Cornelius and Albert Prout. These men, who came from Sydney originally, had moved to Queensland to work on the land and over the years tended to move further west looking for "some fine country" they could take up. In December 1877 they set off from western Queensland towards the South Australian/Northern Territory border area and were never heard from again. Mary Hannay Foott, who lived in the region from where the men set out, heard the tale from the grieving parents, and based this poem on the brothers' search. Analysis On the poem's publication in the author's collection ''Where the Pelican Builds and Other Poems'', a reviewer i ...
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Happy Days
''Happy Days'' is an American television sitcom that aired first-run on the ABC network from January 15, 1974, to July 19, 1984, with a total of 255 half-hour episodes spanning 11 seasons. Created by Garry Marshall, it was one of the most successful series of the 1970s. The series presented an idealized vision of life in the 1950s and early 1960s Midwestern United States, and it starred Ron Howard as Richie Cunningham, Henry Winkler as his friend Fonzie, and Tom Bosley and Marion Ross as Richie's parents, Howard and Marion Cunningham. Although it opened to mixed reviews from critics, ''Happy Days'' became successful and popular over time. The series began as an unsold pilot starring Howard, Ross and Anson Williams, which aired in 1972 as a segment titled "Love and the Television Set" (later retitled "Love and the Happy Days" for syndication) on ABC's anthology show ''Love, American Style''. Based on the pilot, director George Lucas cast Howard as the lead in his 1973 f ...
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No Message
No (and variant writings) may refer to one of these articles: English language * ''Yes'' and ''no'' (responses) * A determiner in noun phrases Alphanumeric symbols * No (kana), a letter/syllable in Japanese script * No symbol, displayed 🚫 * Numero sign, a typographic symbol for the word 'number', also represented as "No." or similar variants Geography * Norway (ISO 3166-1 country code NO) ** Norwegian language (ISO 639-1 code "no"), a North Germanic language that is also the official language of Norway ** .no, the internet ccTLD for Norway * Lake No, in South Sudan * No, Denmark, village in Denmark * Nō, Niigata, a former town in Japan * No Creek (other) * Acronym for the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana or its professional sports teams ** New Orleans Saints of the National Football League ** New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association Arts and entertainment Film and television * ''Dr. No'' (film), a 1962 ''James Bond'' film ** ...
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Ave Caesar! Te Morituri Salutant!
''Alta Velocidad Española'' (''AVE'') is a service of high-speed rail in Spain operated by Renfe, the Spanish national railway company, at speeds of up to . As of December 2021, the Spanish high-speed rail network, on part of which the AVE service runs, is the longest HSR network in Europe with and the second longest in the world, after China's. AVE trains run on a network of high-speed rail track owned and managed by ADIF (''Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias''), where other high speed (, Alvia, Avlo) and mid-speed ( Altaria) services also operate. The first line was opened in 1992, connecting the cities of Madrid, Córdoba and Seville. Unlike the rest of the Iberian broad gauge network, the AVE uses standard gauge. This permits direct connections to outside Spain through the link to the French network at the Perthus Tunnel. AVE trains are operated by Renfe, but private companies may be able to operate trains in the future using other brands, in accorda ...
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1885 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *Henri Beauclair and Gabriel Vicaire, using the pseudonym Adoré Floupette, publish ''Les Déliquescences d'Adoré Floupette'', a parodic collection of poems satirising French symbolism and the Decadent movement. Works published in English Canada * Frederick George Scott, ''Justin and Other Poems''. Published at author's expense. United Kingdom * Maude Ashurst Biggs, ''Master Thaddeus'', first English translation of Adam Mickiewicz, ''Pan Tadeusz'' (1834) * Robert Bridges, ''Eros and Psyche'' * Charles Stuart Calverley (died 1884), ''Literary Remains'' * Jean Ingelow, ''Poems: Third Series'' (see also ''Poems'' 1863, ''Poems'' 1880) * William Morris, ''Chants for Socialists'' * Robert Louis Stevenson, ''A Child's Garden of Verses'' * Algernon Charles Swinburne, ''Marino Faliero'' * Edwin Arnold, ''The Song Celestial'' * Alfred Lord Tennyson, ''Tiresi ...
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1885 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1885. Books * Francis Adams — ''Leicester : An Autobiography'' * Rolf Boldrewood ** ''The Crooked Stick, or, Pollie's Probation'' ** ''The Sealskin Cloak'' * Ada Cambridge — ''A Little Minx : A Sketch'' * Mary Fortune — ''Dan Lyons' Doom'' * Rosa Praed ** ''Affinities : A Romance of To-Day'' ** ''The Head Station : A Novel of Australian Life'' Poetry * Victor Daley ** " On the River" ** " On the Shore" * George Essex Evans — " Australia Militant" * Mary Hannay Foott ** " Happy Days" ** " No Message" ** ''Where the Pelican Builds and Other Poems'' * Philip J. Holdsworth — " My Queen of Dreams" * Henry Parkes — ''The Beauteous Terrorist and Other Poems'' * A. B. Paterson — " El Mahdi to the Australian Troops" * J. Brunton Stephens — ''Convict Once and Other Poems'' Short stories * Rolf Boldrewood ** "A Canvas Town Romance" ** "A Transformation Scene ...
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Australian Poetry Collections
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * Someth ...
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