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71RENNIE, Edward Henry (1852-1927) — scientist son of A. E. Rennie, afterwards auditor general of New South Wales, was born at Sydney on 19 August 1852. Educated at the Fort street public school, Sydney Grammar School, and the university of Sydney, he graduated B.A. in 1870 and M.A …
72SMITH, Sir Charles Edward Kingsford (1897-1935) — aviator was born at Brisbane on 9 February 1897, youngest son of William Charles Smith, bank manager. When he was six years of age the family removed to Canada, the father having become a superintendent in the Canadian Pacific railway. On the… …
73TOMPSON, Charles (1806-1883) — first Australian born poet to publish a volume was born in 1806 at Sydney. He was educated at the Rev. Henry Fulton s (q.v.) school at Castlereagh, and entered the New South Wales public service. In 1826 he published Wild Notes from the Lyre of a …
74C. E. Wynn-Williams — Charles Eryl Wynn Williams Born 5 March 1903 Glasfryn, Uplands, Swansea Died 30 August 1979(1979 08 30) (aged 76) Bryn Elmen, Dolybont, Borth, Cardiganshire Nationality British …
75Moritzberg (Hildesheim) — Dingworthstrasse has always been the high street of the quarter …
76Hortense de Beauharnais — Queen Consort of Holland Comtesse de Saint Leu Duchesse de Saint Leu Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen of Holland Queen Consort of H …
77The South Sea Company — For the Noel Coward play, see: South Sea Bubble (play). The South Sea Bubble of 1720, was an economic bubble that occurred through speculation in the stock of The South Sea Company. The company had been granted a monopoly to trade with South… …
78Gustafs skål — literally Toast to Gustaf , is a song written by Carl Michael Bellman as a salutation to King Gustaf III of Sweden, following the coup d etat in 1772, which made himself an autocrat and ended the parliamentary Age of Liberty. The king very much …
79Town class destroyer — The Town class destroyers were warships transferred from the United States Navy to the Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy in exchange for military bases in the Bahamas and elsewhere, as outlined in the Destroyers for Bases Agreement between… …
80John Gaffney — John H. Gaffney (June 29 1855 August 8 1913), nicknamed the King of Umpires and Honest John , was an American umpire and manager in Major League Baseball. He was baseball s first great umpire, and played a pioneering role in the use of multiple… …
