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111Walter Nash — The Right Honourable Sir Walter Nash GCMG, CH Walter Nash ca 1940s 2 …
112Hermann Emil Fischer — Infobox Scientist name = Emil Fischer image size = 180px caption = Hermann Emil Fischer birth date = birth date|1852|10|9|df=y birth place = Euskirchen, Germany nationality = Germany death date = death date and age|df=yes|1919|7|15|1852|10|9… …
113Venedikt Erofeyev — Venedikt Vasilyevich Erofeev ( ru. Венедикт Васильевич Ерофеев), (October 24, 1938 mdash;May 11, 1990), was a Russian writer.BiographyErofeev was born in the small settlement Poyakonda in Murmansk Oblast. His father was imprisoned during Stalin s …
1141951 in Australia — Infobox Australian year monarch = George VI governor general = William McKell pm =Robert Menzies population = 8,421,775 australian = elections =Federal See also: 1950 in Australia, other events of 1951, 1952 in Australia and the Timeline of… …
115Early life of Pope John Paul II — The early life of Pope John Paul II covers the period in his life from his birth in 1920 to his ordination to the priesthood in 1946. Karol Józef Wojtyła was born on 18 May, 1920 in Wadowice near the city of Kraków in southern Poland, son of a… …
116FISHER, Andrew (1862-1928) — prime minister of Australia son of Robert Fisher, was born at Crosshouse, Ayrshire, Scotland, on 29 August 1862. He was educated at the local school, and as a young man worked as a coal miner. Emigrating to Australia he arrived in Queensland in… …
117LANE, William (1861-1917) — social reformer was born at Bristol, England, on 6 September 1861. His father was Protestant Irish and worked in a nursery, his mother was English. When Lane was born his father was earning a miserable wage, but later on his circumstances… …
118Conscription — Compulsory military service, in principle for all adult males, was increasingly the practice of all serious Great Powers in the late nineteenth century. With the exception of Britain and the United States, who were both secure against sudden… …
119education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …
120china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …
