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Bunbury Women's Club
The Bunbury Women's Club occupies a former Anglican building in Bunbury, Western Australia. The State Register of Heritage Places lists the historic women's club. History The Anglican church built a rectory on the site in 1853. In 1889, the church converted that building to a deanery. After serving as a chaplain to 300 convicts, Reverend Joseph Winters lived in the residence as he served as the chaplain in Bunbury from 1864 to 1889 and again from 1889 to 1893. He is credited with initiating the fundraising and building of St Paul's Anglican Church on nearby Victoria Street. As the area continued to grow, the church established the Anglican Diocese of Bunbury in 1904 and significantly expanded the building in 1910. The church decided to sell the structure in 1954 due to water damage. The Bunbury Women's Club began in 1955, led by a female relative of Reverend Withers. While the group originally rented the former rectory, they purchased the building in 1957 for £A5,250, equi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simplified Chinese Character
Simplified Chinese characters are one of two standardized Chinese characters, character sets widely used to write the Chinese language, with the other being traditional characters. Their mass standardization during the 20th century was part of an initiative by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to promote literacy, and their use in ordinary circumstances on the mainland has been encouraged by the Chinese government since the 1950s. They are the official forms used in mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore, while traditional characters are officially used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Simplification of a component—either a character or a sub-component called a Radical (Chinese characters), radical—usually involves either a reduction in its total number of Chinese character strokes, strokes, or an apparent streamlining of which strokes are chosen in what places—for example, the radical used in the traditional character is simplified to to form the simplified charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
