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There are places that we've never been,
and strange things that we've never seen;
great things of this World
to yet be unfurled,
can leave us with knowledge quite lean
and strange things that we've never seen;
great things of this World
to yet be unfurled,
can leave us with knowledge quite lean
PECULIAR PLACEs
and other destinations
LONGEST TOWN NAME (WALES) Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch Click on this link to hear pronunciation http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlllla This is the Welsh name of a town in North Wales. The English translation is- "The Church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave" . http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/ |
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch was named by a cobbler from Menai Bridge, little did he know that he had implemented not knowing that by doing so, it would become a huge tourist attraction. For centuries it was a small rural settlement. In 1563 there were only 80 people living here, in 16 dwellings. By 1801, the population had increased to 385 inhabitants in 83 dwellings.
http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/history.php
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Christmas Island was named by Captain William Mynors of the East India Ship Company vessel, the Royal Mary, when he arrived on Christmas Day, 25 December 1643. Records of The Thomas in 1615 Master Richard Rowe showed that it was sighted much earlier.
There is however, another Christmas Island located in the Pacific Ocean, 2,000 km south of the Hawaiian Islands, where nuclear tests had been conducted. That Island was discovered on Christmas eve of 1777 by Captain Cook, and is now known as Kiritimati. This Christmas Island is in the world's farthest forward time zone, UTC+14, and is one of the first inhabited places on Earth to experience the New Year http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_Christmas_ISLAND_got_its_name#slide1 |
CHRISTMAS HILLS VIC., AUSTRALIA
Christmas Hills in the Shire of Nillumbik, owes its name to an emancipated convict and shepherd, David Christmas, who became lost on a 640 acre grazing lease n the area in 1842 & was found after days of wandering at a rise which was subsequently named after him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas |
1870 Early settlers Christmas Hills http://www.picturevictoria
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CHRISTMAS HILLS RASPBERRY FARM
TASMANIA There is also a Christmas Hills Raspberry Farm and Café, at Elizabeth Town, is 15 minutes' drive from Devonport. TASMANIAN PLACE NAMES and CHANGES http://www.hobart.tasfhs.org/TasNames.html |
Elizabeth Town, originally 'New Norfolk'
http://www.newnorfolk.org/sites/History_of_New_Norfolk2.shtml http://www.discovertasmania.com/attraction/christmashillsraspberryfarm#
The name of Heidelberg itself is first mentioned in a document dating 1196 AD. It is believed to have come from the Heiligenberg ("Mountain of the Saints"), a hill on the opposite side of the river, upon which a Roman chapel and later an Early Medieval church and monastery were built.
http://www.journey-to-germany.com/heidelberg.html
Cattle overlander Joseph Hawdon built his gothic Banyule Homestead in 1846, overlooking the Yarra Valley. The Post Office opened on 19 October 1853 as Warringal, and was renamed Heidelberg in 1865. Heidelberg was proclaimed a Shire on 27 January 1871. (wiki)
Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the area of Heidelberg, was occupied by the Wurundjeri willam people. The Municipal Directory supplies us with a 19th-century description of the natural features of the area as undulating country "with a series of green hills, the sides of which slope gently into rich flats and valleys, the river [the Yarra] winding through the country".
http://shawfactor.com/gazetteer/victoria/heidelberg/ The cemetery on Upper Heidelberg Road contains some of the oldest graves in Victoria. A small older cemetery, near the corner of St James Road & Hawdon Street, contains pre 1851 graves. The primary school opened in 1854, Banyule Homestead 1846, the Old England Hotel 1848, The Heidelberg (art) School 1891, The Austin hospital founded 1882, originally named- Hospital for the Incurables & the Olympic Village 1956.
http://shawfactor.com/gazetteer/victoria/heidelberg/
SOME ORIGINS OF PLACE NAMES IN THE CITY OF YARRA
Carringbush The name "Carringbush" was first used by Frank Hardy in his novel Power Without Glory, a semi-fictional account of the millionaire John Wren. Hardy's thinly disguised names such as Carringbush for Collingwood and John West for John Wren were easily seen through and the book's publication in 1950 led to his trial for criminal libel. http://www.yarracity.vic.gov.au/Libraries/Local-history/History-of-the-City-of-Yarra/
Famous for the lilac-coloured or "wisteria hue" hair and cat eye glasses. Does He/She really come from Moonee Ponds? Looks like his character & where she came from is all fictional, except the suburb is real!, There is a Moonee-Ponds in Victoria.
http://www.domain.com.au/news/three-of-the-best-moonee-ponds-20130829-2ssng/ Moonee-Ponds
Before European settlement, the Moonee Ponds Creek was the home of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin nation. Though there are no written records, it is probable that the creek takes its name from an indigenous inhabitant Moonee Moonee, who, along with Tullamareena, burnt down and escaped from the first Melbourne gaol in 1838. The first land sales in the area of Strathmore on Moonee Ponds Creek were made in 1843 and 1845. The creek formed a series of marshy ponds on the floodplain, with extensive salt water marshes near its entry to the Yarra river known as Batman's lagoon. With rapid development of Melbourne due to the Victorian gold rush in the 1850s, the swamp quickly became a receptacle for waste waters from Flemington, North Melbourne and Parkville. (wiki) THE ROYAL MELBOURNE SHOWGROUNDS
From The New London Gazetteer in 1826-
County Cork, in the province of Munster, bounded on the West by the Kerry and the Atlantic, North by Limerick, East by Waterford, and South by St George's channel. It sends 8 members to parliament, is divided into 232 parishes & has about 702,000 inhabitants. It is very fertile & has 2 considerable rivers, the Blackwater & the Lee. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=county+cork&biw
THE OLD CHANNEL 9 BUILDING- 22 Bendigo Street Richmond, Victoria
Wertheim Pianos Hugo Wertheim wanted ‘not only to make pianos from Australian material, but by Australian workmen, under Australian conditions’. In 1908, he commissioned the Wertheim Piano Factory to be built and Prime Minister Alfred Deakin laid the foundation stone on 21 October 1908. The factory covered four acres with 50,000 square feet of floor space. It had its own iron and brass foundries, timber seasoning racks, as well as cabinet-making, French polishing and sounding board facilities. It was heated by hot air pipes and even generated its own power. It employed 300 workers and could produce 2,000 pianos a year, all at 22 Bendigo street. Nellie Melba is said to have refused to play on any piano other than a Wertheim. Herbert took over the business following his father's death in 1919, but the business failed with the 1920's depression together with increasing popularity of the wireless for family entertainment, the factory closed in 1935. Heinz Heinz decided to open an Australian branch of the American company after a 1929 tariff embargo restricted what it could export to Australia. In March 1935, Heinz Australia began leasing 22 Bendigo Street and by August it was producing bottled horseradish with 75 employees. In 1941 the Australian Defence Department awarded Heinz the contract to supply canned goods to the armed services. The company played a vital role in the war effort, even supplying American troops stationed in Australia. By 1948, production increased to over 13 million cans a year. Heinz expanded floor space and added equipment but ultimately, it needed more room. On 24 October 1955 Heinz Australia sold the Richmond factory to GTV9 and relocated to a 70-acre site in Dandenong.
IRELAND & THEIR POTATO FAMINE
To Irish potato-growing land renters, the potato was both food and cash. Part of the crop paid the rent, the rest of the crop fed the family. A plant disease, called “Late Potato Blight,” ruined the potato crop severely in 1845. Only potatoes were adversely affected, but famine became widespread. Unable to pay rent, thousands of families were evicted from their dwellings. Poor houses were filled beyond capacity. Some of the evicted, with no place to go and little to eat, tried to shelter their families by living in holes dug in the Irish bog. Others constructed scalpeen inside abandoned, roofless houses. Millions of people died or fled the country. Views of the Irish Famine https://viewsofthefamine.wordpress.com/
WHERE CAN YOU FIND HAMLETS, OR THEIR EQUIVALENT?
NewYork, Oregon, Switzerland, Canada, Indonesia, France, Romania, Germany, India, United Kingdom WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ENGLAND, GREAT BRITAIN &
THE UNITED KINGDOM?
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TOWN, CITY, COUNTY ETC?
WHICH COUNTRIES HAVE TERRITORIES?
Australia, Netherlands, China, Denmark, France, U.K., Norway, New Zealand, Antarctica, United States of America
INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN STATES
There are 195 independent sovereign states in the world including de-facto independent Taiwan.
ASYLUMS
Little Sisters of the Poor, Fever Hospital Fairfield, Melbourne Retreat for the Cure of Inebriates, Willard Asylum for the Insane, Willsmere (Kew) Mental Asylum, Yarra Bend Lunatic Asylum, Larundel Mental Asylum Bundoora, Aradale Asylum, Ararat, Royal Hope Hospital, Florida, Bundoora Mental Asylum, Taunton State Hospital, Mass., Beechworth Lunatic Asylum, Bedlam. HEIDELBERG OLYMPIC VILLAGE (Melbourne Olympic Games 1956)
GREAT FIRE OF CHICAGO
Chicago was acknowledged to be the great centre of the West and covered an area of twenty-one square miles, containing a population of 340,000. In 1871, a fire wiped out the city and many many lives were lost. By the 12th of October, within four days, the city was a mass of ruins, its citizens homeless, many of them starving or dead.
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