The Roman poet Virgil, best known for the Aeneid, also wrote the Georgics, a didactic poem in four books, published around 29 BC. Its subject is agriculture: animal husbandry, tending of vines, beekeeping etc.
Virgil Tracy is a fictional character from Gerry Anderson’s “Thunderbirds” series.
The third son of Jeff Tracy (founder of International Rescue), his role was as principal pilot of Thunderbird 2. Besides piloting the delivery carrier of the rescue equipment he was usually called upon to operate the equipment and effect a rescue on site. He also piloted Thunderbird 3 on occasion. Along with Jeff and Scott, Virgil was the only other character to appear in all 32 TV episodes of Thunderbirds and the first character to speak the line “F-A-B”, being the International Rescue radio code.
At the peak of their popularity, Duran Duran was sometimes called the “Fab Five”, a reference to the Beatles’ nickname “Fab Four.”
At its peak in 1952 the New Zealand railway network had approximately 5,700 km of track.
A distant cousin of mine was awarded the New Zealand Bravery Decoration last year for tackling an unstable and armed intruder. It is the third highest award for bravery available to civilians in New Zealand. She was 21 at the time of the incident.
When she was nine I accompanied her and her twin brother, together with their mother (my second cousin) on their first multi-day tramp along the 59km Wangapeka Track taking five days to finish.
The original design for the half-track was as a civilian car, refitted to conventional vehicles by French engineer Adolphe Kégresse, for the use of the Tsar in Russian driving conditions, in 1911. The concept was later applied to military vehicles in WWI.
NM, ninja’d by jtur88.
According to WP (my abbreviation for Wikipedia), the concept for the half track was originated in the United States, for logging vehicles, beginning in 1899 by Alvin Lombard in Maine. I was called the Lombard Steam Log Hauler.
President George H.W. Bush lost his adoptive home state of Maine in the 1992 U.S. election. A later vote analysis by The New York Times suggested that it was the only state in which H. Ross Perot’s presence in the race had been decisive in the Electoral College.
The *Commonwealth Electoral Act *1918 requires that all federal elections, by-elections and referenda be held on a Saturday.
Various acts in the state and territories contain similar provisions for their elections.
Various acts in the American states and territories contain dis-similar provisions for their elections.
Since the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901 there have been 147 by-elections for the House of Representatives, an average of 3.3 per parliament. The first was on 14 September 1901 for the seat of Darling Downs (QLD); the most recent was on 8 February 2014 for the seat of Griffith (QLD).
Of the 147 by-elections:
- 67 followed the death of the member;
- 74 were caused by the member’s resignation;
- 5 were due to voided elections;
- 1 was to replace a member who had been expelled from the House.
Louis Riel was elected three times to the Canadian House of Commons, twice in by-elections, but was never able to take his seat. He lost the seat once when a general election was called, and was expelled after each by-election.
The Governor-General of Australia is His Excellency General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove, who has served since 28 March 2014.
There is no hard-and-fast rule as to who is eligible to use the prefix “the Honorable” in the United States, but it is typically used for elected officeholders at both the Federal and state level, and for judges and magistrates.
In 2004 the form of address for magistrates of the Local Court in NSW was altered from “Your Worship” to “Your Honour”.
The chief officer in a Masonic Lodge is called the Worshipful Master. Rather than a religious connotation, it is used similarly to “honorable”.
On 30 July 1997 a landslide occurred at the ski resort of Thredbo in NSW. Two ski lodges (Bimbadeen and Carinya) were destroyed, and 18 people were killed. Only one survivor was rescued from the rubble after being trapped for nearly three days.
One of the deadliest landslides of the 21st century was on 17 February 2006 in Southern Leyte, Philippines, when over 1,100 people died.
The deadliest wild animal was a tiger who killed 430 people – more than 300 years of worldwide shark fatalities. The Champawat Tiger was eventually shot in 1907 by legendary hunter Jim Corbett.