(from the article "Australia") ...reluctant connivance. Better defense was one motive for association, and so was the prospect of more effective Asian immigration restriction; intercolonial free trade was another desideratum. The Australian Natives Association (the Australian-born comprised nearly two-thirds of the population in 1901) rallied to the cause.
(from the article "Urticaceae") One species of Australian nettle tree, Laportea moroides, is cultivated for its raspberry-like flower clusters. Pilea, a genus of creeping plants that includes the artillery plant (P. microphylla), and pellitory (Parietaria), a genus of...
one of the world's major tennis championships (the first of the four annual Grand Slam events), held at the National Tennis Centre at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. [6 Related Articles]
(from the article "Life Sciences") ...parrots, the males have bright plumage and the females are much less colourful. Robert Heinsohn of the Australian National University, Canberra, and colleagues reported on an eight-year study of an Australian parrot (Eclectus roratus) in which the opposite is true-the red-and-blue females are more brightly coloured than the green males. ...
(1835-42), group of influential Australians of New South Wales that sought a grant of representative government to the colony from the British House of Commons. Their efforts aided significantly in the passage of the Constitution Act of 1842 and the incorporation of the city of Sydney as a municipality with ... [1 Related Articles]
(from the article "Lang, John Dunmore") Australian churchman and writer, founder of the Australian Presbyterian Church, and an influence in shaping colonization of that continent.
one of the six major land areas of the world defined on the basis of its characteristic animal life. It encompasses Australia and the outlying islands of Tasmania, New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. It includes such animals as the birds of paradise, the duck-billed platypus, ... [2 Related Articles]
(from the article "Turnbull, Malcolm") ...one of Australia's top Internet and e-mail service providers, and the company was purchased by WorldCom in 1999 for $520 million (Australian). During this time, Turnbull became associated with the Australian Republican Movement (ARM), serving as its chairman from 1993 to 2000. He was one of the chief supporters of ...
(from the article "rugby") ...the 1880s matches between teams representing New South Wales and New Zealand began, as rugby in Australia remained largely confined to the big east coast cities of Sydney and Brisbane. The national Australian Rugby Union was not formed until 1949. In other parts of Australia, Australian rules football had already ...
a football sport distinctive to Australia that predates other modern football games as the first to create an official code of play. Invented in Melbourne, capital of the state of Victoria, in the late 1850s, the game was initially known as Melbourne, or Victorian, rules football and was an amalgam ... [15 Related Articles]
(from the article "sea lion") The Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) is found along the southern coast of Western Australia into South Australia. Adult males are 2.0-2.5 metres in length and weigh 300 kg, whereas females measure 1.5 metres long and weigh less than 100 kg.
breed of herding dog that, despite its name, was developed in the United States in the late 1800s from dogs brought there by Basque shepherds who had spent time in Australia. One ancestor of the Australian shepherd is the berger de Pyrenees, an outstanding working dog from the mountains between ...
(from the article "continental shield") ...most of the western half of Australia, and the eastern segment of Antarctica are also areas of continental shields. These areas of Precambrian rocks are termed, appropriately, the Indian Shield, the Australian Shield, and the Antarctic Shield.geology of AustraliaAustraliaTectonic framework...(The ...
(from the article "scorpion") ...arachnids, including other scorpions. Less-common but regular prey includes pill bugs, snails, and small vertebrates such as lizards, snakes, and rodents. The only known specialist scorpion is the Australian spiral burrow, or spider-hunting, scorpion (Isometroides vescus), which feeds solely on burrowing spiders.
(from the article "Australia") ...companies and money-market corporations, and some foreign banks. In the late 19th century, stock exchanges developed in each state capital. Stocks, options, and securities are now traded by the Australian Stock Exchange Limited (ASX), formed in 1987 to amalgamate the six state stock exchanges, via an all-electronic system.
(from the article "Leptospermum") Many species are called tea trees: the Australian tea tree (Leptospermum laevigatum), growing to a height of 6 m (20 feet), has shredding bark and white flowers. It is used for reclamation planting and erosion control on sandy soils. The woolly tea tree (L. lanigerum) differs in having fuzzy young ...
breed of dog that originated as an Australian farm dog. First exhibited in 1885 as the Australian rough terrier, the perky breed can be traced back to an extinct British breed, the broken-haired, black-and-tan Old English terrier, but it includes in its heritage a number of other terriers, among them ...
(from the article "passeriform") ...in strength. Clavicles well developed. All with same complex of syringeal muscles, with only minor variations.Small, creeperlike climbing birds, 12.5 to 17.5 cm (5 to 7 inches); of uncertain ancestry and affinities. Legs short; toes long, claws long, curved,...species of treecreeper
(from the article "schefflera") The most common schefflera is the Australian umbrella tree (S. actinophylla, or Brassaia actinophylla), which can grow up to 12 m. It is widely used as a landscape tree in Hawaii and other warm areas and is also one of the most popular indoor plants around the world. A cultivated ...
(from the article "museum, types of") Other museums commemorate events, as do the Australian War Memorial in Canberra or the Imperial War Museum, London; both are military museums, members of a category that grew after World War I. Another development in the 20th-century history museum has been the maritime museum. Like other types of museums, it ...
(from the article "passeriform") ...bill base responsible for name of these terrestrial birds with pleasant squeaky songs. 2 genera, 7 species. Australia.Tiny to small songbirds 8-12 cm (3.1-4.7 inches), some with beautiful songs. The weebill is Australia's smallest bird. Mostly drab brown and...
(from the article "Australia") Prospective trade with Iraq was damaged when Australia's monopoly wheat exporter, the Australian Wheat Board (AWB), was accused of having paid bribes to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's regime. The Australian government denied that it knew that the AWB, a participant in the UN's oil-for-food program in Iraq, had paid ...
(from the article "Australian Council of Trade Unions") the dominant association and governing body of the trade union movement in Australia, established in May 1927. Membership grew significantly when the Australian Workers' Union joined the ACTU in 1967. Two other mergers with federations of white-collar unions-the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations (in 1979) and the Council ...
(from the article "marsupial") ...New Guinea, and nearby islands (introduced by humans to New Zealand) or in the Americas. Oldest fossils date to the Late Cretaceous of North America.Nearly 200 Australasian species and 1 South American species in 5 orders.116 or more...
(from the article "Strewn-fields of tektites") Australites and related forms comprise about 10 percent of the tektites found in Australia. They show a characteristic lenslike form, with an attached flange around the edge (see Figure 3), the whole having the shape of a saucer of ice cream. Flanged australites have clearly been formed by the heating ...
(from the article "passeriform") ...entrance. Bold brown, rufous black and white plumage colours. 3 species. Rainforests of Australia and New Guinea.Medium-sized terrestrial songbirds, 18-25 cm (7-10 inches), with long bills and tails, like mockingbirds (Mimidae) of the New World....
(from the article "Australopithecus") The general term australopith (or australopithecine) is used informally to refer not only to members of the genus Australopithecus but also to other humanlike primates that lived in Africa between 6 and 1.2 mya. Other australopiths include Sahelanthropus tchadensis (7-6 mya), Orrorin tugenensis (6 mya),...Leakey
group of extinct creatures closely related to, if not actually ancestors of, modern human beings and known from a series of fossils found at numerous sites in eastern, central, and southern Africa. The various species of Australopithecus lived during the Pliocene Epoch, which lasted from 5.3 to 1.8 million years ... [13 Related Articles]
(from the article "Anthropology and Archaeology") ...The specimen, which was discovered at Dikika, Eth., in 2000, was so thoroughly embedded in hard sandstone that portions of the skeleton had yet to be removed. The three-year-old female Australopithecus afarensis, named Selam, lived 3.3 million years ago, roughly 120,000 years before Lucy, the well-known adult A. afarensis that ...
(from the article "Osteodontokeratic tool industry") assemblage of fossilized animal bones found at Taung by Raymond Arthur Dart about 200 miles (320 km) from Johannesburg, S.Af., where the first specimen of Australopithecus africanus was found, and at Makapansgat, where other specimens of A.africanus were found. Dart proposed that these fossils were tools used by A.africanus, ...
(from the article "Australopithecus") Identifying the earliest member of the human tribe (Hominini) is difficult because the predecessors of modern humans are increasingly apelike as the fossil record is followed back through time. They resemble what would be expected in the common ancestor of humans and apes in that they possess a mix of ...
(from the article "Australopithecus") ...afarensis came to light from Koro Toro, a site in the Bahr el-Ghazal region of northern Chad. It is 3.5-3.0 million years old and was assigned to a new species, A. bahrelghazali. In many respects it resembles East African A. afarensis, but it differs in significant details of the jaw ...
(from the article "Australopithecus") The best-known member of Australopithecus is A. afarensis, discovered in deposits in East Africa and ranging in age from 3.8 to 2.9 million years old. Part of the earliest sample derives from the northern Tanzanian site of Laetoli, where specimens range from 3.8 to 3.5 mya and include footprints preserved ...
the eastern Frankish kingdom in the Merovingian period (6th-8th century AD) of early medieval Europe, as distinct from Neustria, the western kingdom. Its mayors of the palace, leading household and government officials under the king, were ancestors of the Carolingian dynasty. Covering present northeastern France, Belgium, and areas of western ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Midgard") ...the oceans, his bones the mountains, his teeth the cliffs, his hair the trees, and his brains (blown over the earth) became the clouds. Aurgelmir's skull was held up by four dwarfs, Nordri, Sudri, Austri, and Vestri (the four points of the compass), and became the dome of the heavens. ...
largely mountainous, landlocked country of south-central Europe. Together with Switzerland, it forms what has been characterized as the neutral core of Europe, notwithstanding Austria's full membership since 1995 in the supranational European Union (EU). [64 Related Articles]
horizontally striped red-white-red national flag. When it is flown by the government, it incorporates a central black eagle. Its width-to-length ratio is 2 to 3.
1867-1918Austria-HungarydiplomacyBelgrade TreatyBelgrade, Treaty of...ill-defined frontiers between Russian-ruled Ukraine and the Ottoman-dominated Crimean Tatars provided the pretext in 1735 for a new Russian attempt to establish itself on the northern Black Sea. Austria entered the ...
the Habsburg empire from the constitutional Compromise (Ausgleich) of 1867 between Austria and Hungary until the empire's collapse in 1918. [45 Related Articles]
Persian floor covering of silk with the addition of threads wrapped in gilded silver. Thought by some to be the finest of all surviving Safavid carpets, it shows mounted hunters and their prey surrounding a relatively small central medallion, and the unique border includes a series of winged male figures. ...
(from the article "criminal law") ...In West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) a revised version of the criminal code was published in 1975 and subsequently often amended. In the same year a new criminal code came into force in Austria. New criminal codes have also been published in Portugal (1982) and Brazil (1984). France enacted ...
(from the article "Vienna") ...and the latest from the end of the 19th. The Hofburg abounds in magnificently appointed private and state apartments. It houses the imperial treasury of the Holy Roman and Austrian empires, the Austrian National Library, the Albertina and several other museums, and the Spanish Riding School. The state apartments in ...
(1713-95), provinces located in the southern part of the Low Countries (roughly comprising present Belgium and Luxembourg), which made up what had been the major portion of the Spanish Netherlands. [7 Related Articles]
(from the article "pine") The black, or Austrian, pine (P. nigra) derives its name from the sombre aspect of its dark green, sharp, rigid, rather long leaves. The tree, up to 30 metres tall, displays a deeply fissured bark and light brown branches. This species, widely cultivated for ornament, is native to Europe and ...
(from the article "rocket and missile system") ...rifled bores. The rocket corps of most European armies were dissolved, though rockets were still used in swampy or mountainous areas that were difficult for the much heavier mortars and guns. The Austrian Rocket Corps, using Hale rockets, won a number of engagements in mountainous terrain in Hungary and Italy. ...
body of economic theory developed in the late 19th century by Austrian economists who, in determining the value of a product, emphasized the importance of its utility to the consumer. Carl Menger published the new theory of value in 1871, the same year in which English economist William Stanley Jevons ... [8 Related Articles]
(from the article "Austria") ...Moscow in April 1955, and an agreement was reached by which the Soviet government declared itself ready to restore full Austrian sovereignty and to evacuate its occupation troops in return for an Austrian promise to declare the country permanently neutral.international ...
(1740-48), a conglomeration of related wars, two of which developed directly from the death of Charles VI, Holy Roman emperor and head of the Austrian branch of the house of Habsburg, on Oct. 20, 1740. [27 Related Articles]
American physician and educator devoted his life to identifying the various strains associated with pneumococcal infections. At Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, N.Y. (now known as SUNY Downstate), he conducted a 10-year (1952-62) groundbreaking study, which found that hundreds of patients had died from pneumonia despite treatment with antibiotics, the ...
hypothetical language superfamily that includes the Austroasiatic and Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language families. The languages of these two families are spoken in an area extending from the island of Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east and as far northward as the Himalayas. This classification scheme, proposed in ... [3 Related Articles]
(from the article "Austria") ...Empire. This policy had two deleterious results: it alienated Russia, which had helped the monarchy put down the Hungarian revolution, and it did not befriend France, which would in 1859 support Sardinia in its war of Italian unification against the Austrians.Bohemia
