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Bolivia, New South Wales
Bolivia is a locality on the Northern Tablelands in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. The remains of the settlement comprises the former Bolivia Hotel, a disused post office, a disused railway siding and a community hall. History The area where Bolivia was established is the territory of the Ngarabal people. In the Ngarabal language, the area is known as Bilba, meaning big bushes. This area has continued to remain significant to Ngarabal people since European settlement, containing significant sacred sites and ceremony grounds. There are records of 300 Aboriginal people taking part in a corroboree there in the 1870s. The first European settlement was in 1840, with the establishment of a sheep station owned by a squatter named Edward Hurry. Hurry had previously spent some years in Bolivia in South America, and chose this name for the land around his property. Hurry's sheep contracted catarrh and he sold Bolivia to Sir Stuart Donaldson who then held the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Lismore
Lismore is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Janelle Saffin of the Labor Party. The electoral district includes all of the City of Lismore (including Lismore, Lindendale, Nimbin, Dunoon and Clunes), much of inland Tweed Shire (including Murwillumbah, Tyalgum and Uki), all of Kyogle Council (including Kyogle, Bonalbo, Tabulam and Woodenbong) and all of Tenterfield Shire. (including Tenterfield, Drake, Jennings, Liston, Legume, Torrington and Urbenville) History Lismore was first created with the end of multi-member districts in 1894, when it was split from Richmond. In 1904, it was abolished with the reduction in the size of the Legislative Assembly, after Federation. In 1913, Lismore was recreated, replacing Richmond. With the introduction of proportional representation in 1920, Lismore and Clarence were absorbed into Byron. With the end of proportional representation in 1927, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cobb & Co
Cobb & Co was the name used by many successful sometimes quite independent Australian coaching businesses. The first was established in 1853 by American Freeman Cobb and his partners. The name Cobb & Co grew to great prominence in the late 19th century, when it was carried by many stagecoaches carrying passengers and mail to various Australian goldfields, and later to many regional and remote areas of the Australian outback. The same name was used in New Zealand and Freeman Cobb used it in South Africa. Although the Queensland branch of the company made an effort to transition to automobiles in the early 20th century, high overhead costs and the growth of alternative transport options for mail, including rail and air, saw the final demise of Cobb & Co. The last Australian Cobb & Co stagecoach ran in Queensland in August 1924. Cobb & Co has become an established part of Australian folklore commemorated in art, literature and on screen. Today the name is used by a number of Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pimelea Venosa
''Pimelea venosa'', commonly known as Bolivia Hill rice-flower, is a flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It is an erect shrub with densely long-hairy stems and leaves, elliptic to lance-shaped leaves and small groups of white flowers. Description ''Pimelea venosa'' is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of with its stems and leaves densely covered with long, soft, whitish hairs. The leaves are elliptic to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide. The flowers are bisexual, white, arranged in groups of three to six with between two and six small, leaf-like bracts at the base. The fruit is oval, green and about long. Taxonomy and naming ''Pimelea venosa'' was first formally described in 1983 by S. Threlfall in the journal '' Brunonia'', from a specimen collected by Ernst Betche near Bolivia in 1886. Distribution and habitat Bolivia Hill rice-flower is only known from near B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Boliviana
''Eucalyptus boliviana'', commonly known as Bolivia Hill stringybark or Bolivia stringybark is a shrub or a mallee, sometimes a small tree and is endemic to a small area in northern New South Wales. It is a stringybark with four-sides stems, broadly lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of seven, yellow flowers and hemispherical to broadly funnel-shaped fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus boliviana'' is a shrub or a mallee that grows to a height of , occasionally a tree that grows to a height of high. The bark on the trunk and larger branches is greyish and stringy. The thinner stems are distinctly four sided with wings at each edge. Young plants and coppice regrowth have stems that are square in cross section and leaves that are elliptic to egg-shaped or broadly lance-shaped, long and wide and have a petiole. Adult leaves are broadly lance-shaped, dull bluish green at first then the same glossy green on both sides, long and wide with a petiole long. The fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homoranthus Croftianus
''Homoranthus croftianus'', commonly known as Bolivia homoranthus, is a plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area near Bolivia in northern New South Wales. It is an upright shrub with pointed leaves arranged in alternating opposite pairs so they form four rows along the branchlets. Single greenish to cream-coloured flowers are borne in leaf axils. Description Flowers and fruits sporadically throughout the year, primarily in October-January. Taxonomy and naming ''Homoranthus croftianus'' was first formally described in 1998 by John Hunter from a specimen collected in the Bolivia Range. The description was published in '' Telopea''. The specific epithet (''croftianus'') honours Peter Croft, a National Parks and Wildlife Service ranger. Distribution and habitat Endemic to Bolivia Hill Nature Reserve, 40km southerly direction from Tenterfield Tenterfield is a regional town in New South Wales, Australia. At the , Tenterfield had a population of 4, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homoranthus
''Homoranthus'' is a genus of about thirty species of plants in the myrtle family Myrtaceae and all are endemic to Australia. Plants in this genus share similarities with those in both '' Darwinia'' and '' Verticordia''. They are shrubs with their leaves arranged in opposite pairs and with flowers appearing either singly or in small groups, usually in upper leaf axils. They are found in Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. The genus was first described in 1836. None of the species is common nor are they well-known in horticulture. Description Plants in the genus ''Homoranthus'' are shrubs with their leaves arranged in opposite pairs, at right angles to the ones above and below ( decussate) so that the leaves are in four rows along the stems. They are linear to cylindrical in shape, sometimes thicker than wide. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to four in the upper leaf axils. There are five sepals and five petals which are enclosed in two bracteole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boronia Boliviensis
''Boronia boliviensis'', commonly known as Bolivia Hill boronia is a plant in the citrus family, Rutaceae and is endemic to a small area on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales. It is a strongly scented shrub with pinnate leaves, deep pink flowers in spring and with its young branches covered with fine, yellow hairs. It is only known from higher parts of the Bolivia Range where it grows on granite outcrops. Description ''Boronia boliviensis'' is an erect, strongly scented shrub with many branches and which grows to a height of between . The branches, when young are densely covered with fine, yellowish, branched hairs but become glabrous with age. Its leaves are dark green and bipinnate with between 5 and 9 leaflets. Each leaflet is narrow elliptic in shape, long and arranged on a jointed rachis usually long and wide. The flowers are borne singly or in groups of 3 in leaf axils on a branched peduncle long, with branches (pedicels) long. There are 4 deep red, pointed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granite
Granite () is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies underground. It is common in the continental crust of Earth, where it is found in igneous intrusions. These range in size from dikes only a few centimeters across to batholiths exposed over hundreds of square kilometers. Granite is typical of a larger family of ''granitic rocks'', or '' granitoids'', that are composed mostly of coarse-grained quartz and feldspars in varying proportions. These rocks are classified by the relative percentages of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase (the QAPF classification), with true granite representing granitic rocks rich in quartz and alkali feldspar. Most granitic rocks also contain mica or amphibole minerals, though a few (known as leucogranites) contain almost no dark minerals. Granite is near ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Splitters Swamp Creek
Splitter or splitters may refer to: Technology * DSL filter or DSL splitter, in telecommunications * Fiber-optic splitter * Hybrid coil, a three windings transformer * Power dividers and directional couplers, in RF engineering * Siamese connection for hydrants and fire hoses * Splitter (automotive), an aerodynamic feature in cars * Splitter, a table saw safety device * Y-cable, a type of cable containing three ends of which one is a common end that in turn leads to a split into the remaining two ends * Phase splitter Science and mathematics * Splitter (geometry), a line segment of a triangle * Lumpers and splitters, opposing tendencies in any discipline which has to place individual examples into rigorously defined categories Sports * Split-finger fastball, or splitter, a baseball throwing technique * Mark Splitter, an American college football coach * Tiago Splitter, a Brazilian basketball player Other uses * Another name for fictional superhero Arm Fall Off Boy * TimeSplit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deepwater Creek
Deepwater Creek is a stream in Henry County in west central Missouri. It is a tributary of the Truman Reservoir. The stream begins at the confluence of North Deepwater Creek and South Deepwater Creek in western Henry County (at ) east-southeast of the community of Johnstown. The stream flows east-northeast passing under Missouri Route K north of Germantown. The stream is impounded as Montrose Lake within the Montrose Conservation Area. Below the Montrose Dam the stream flows generally east passing south of La Due. It continues to the east passing north of Deepwater to enter the Truman Reservoir west of the Missouri Route 13 bridge (at ) at an elevation of . The stream was known as a ''stream of deep water'' and the name ''Deepwater'' also served as a school, a village post office and township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arsenic
Arsenic is a chemical element with the symbol As and atomic number 33. Arsenic occurs in many minerals, usually in combination with sulfur and metals, but also as a pure elemental crystal. Arsenic is a metalloid. It has various allotropes, but only the gray form, which has a metallic appearance, is important to industry. The primary use of arsenic is in alloys of lead (for example, in car batteries and ammunition). Arsenic is a common n-type dopant in semiconductor electronic devices. It is also a component of the III-V compound semiconductor gallium arsenide. Arsenic and its compounds, especially the trioxide, are used in the production of pesticides, treated wood products, herbicides, and insecticides. These applications are declining with the increasing recognition of the toxicity of arsenic and its compounds. A few species of bacteria are able to use arsenic compounds as respiratory metabolites. Trace quantities of arsenic are an essential dietary element in r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silica
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica, is an oxide of silicon with the chemical formula , most commonly found in nature as quartz and in various living organisms. In many parts of the world, silica is the major constituent of sand. Silica is one of the most complex and most abundant families of materials, existing as a compound of several minerals and as a synthetic product. Notable examples include fused quartz, fumed silica, silica gel, opal and aerogels. It is used in structural materials, microelectronics (as an electrical insulator), and as components in the food and pharmaceutical industries. Structure In the majority of silicates, the silicon atom shows tetrahedral coordination, with four oxygen atoms surrounding a central Si atomsee 3-D Unit Cell. Thus, SiO2 forms 3-dimensional network solids in which each silicon atom is covalently bonded in a tetrahedral manner to 4 oxygen atoms. In contrast, CO2 is a linear molecule. The starkly different structures of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
