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	History of Melbourne - History of Melbourne - Reference - Melbourne Guide - Only Melbourne
		Melbourne was founded on the mouth of the Yarra River in 1835 after an abortive bid in 1803 to establish a settlement inside the Port Phillip Bay heads.
		Melbourne boomed in the 1850's as a result of the gold rush in the region to the north.
		Melbourne has a reputation as being refined and sedate than its northerly neighbour Sydney, boasting the country's finest restaurants and is acknowledged as the country's most important financial centre.
	www.onlymelbourne.com.au /melbourne_details.php?id=581 (2167 words)

	History of Melbourne
		Melbourne was founded on the mouth of the Yarra River in 1835 after an abortive bid in 1803 to establish a settlement inside the Port Phillip Bay heads.
		Melbourne boomed in the 1850's as a result of the gold rush in the region to the north.
		Melbourne has a reputation as being more refined and sedate as its rival Sydney, but it boasts some of the country's finest restaurants and is acknowledged as the country's most important financial centre.
	www.ripefruit.com /melbourne/history.htm (2122 words)

	History of Melbourne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Melbourne began as a collection of tents and huts on the banks of the Yarra, yet within ten years, because of its economic position as a centre of pastoralism and land speculation it had established many stone and brick public and financial buildings.
		Melbourne's population reached 280,000 in 1880 and 490,000 in 1890.
		Melbourne became the centre of the Commonwealth Public Service, the defence forces, the diplomatic corps (admittedly very small until World War II), and also to a large extent of the legal profession, all of which reinforced the supremacy of Melbourne University and exclusive schools such as Melbourne Grammar School, Scotch College and Xavier College.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Melbourne (3307 words)

	Melbourne History - Australia - Intown Geelong
		Melbourne, named after British Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, was first settled by a group of settlers led by John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner, Batman had earlier explored Port Philip Bay and landed near the Yarra River and decided "this will be a place for a village" on the 10th of May 1835.
		Melbourne grew steadily during the early 1900's and the new immigration policy of the Australian government of the time that promoted Australia across Europe to help boost the population worked wonders.
		Melbourne was home to the 1956 Olympics games, the first to be held in the southern hemisphere and it was around this time until the 1970s that Melbourne's population began to stabilise as Sydney was recognized as Australia’s largest city.
	www.intown.com.au /locals/melbourne/melbourne-history.htm (380 words)

	BBC - History - Lord Melbourne (1779 - 1848)
		Melbourne became prime minister in 1834 and again in 1835 - 1839 and 1839 - 1841.
		When the young Queen Victoria ascended to the throne in 1837, she and Melbourne developed a close relationship, with the prime minister tutoring the new queen in government and politics.
		Melbourne went into a decline and died from the effects of a stroke on 24 November 1848.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/historic_figures/melbourne_lord.shtml (409 words)

	Melbourne's Tramway History.
		The second electric tramway in Melbourne's suburbs was opened on the 11th October 1906 and ran from Flemington Bridge (near the terminus of the North Melbourne cable tram route) to Essendon, with a branch to Saltwater River (Now Maribyrnong River) and a short spur along Puckle St Moonee Ponds, to Moonee Ponds railway station.
		The lease of the cable trams by the Melbourne Tramways and Omnibus Co. expired on 30th June, 1916 and it was decided to appoint an interim Melbourne Tramways Trust to operate the system until it was decided what to do about the growing problems of street passenger transport in the Melbourne metropolitan area.
		An overall scheme for Melbourne's tramways wsa prepared, and the decision taken to convert the cable trams to electric traction.
	www.geocities.com /z_class/tramhistory.html (3222 words)

	Melbourne Cup Carnival \| About the Melbourne Cup \| History \| Emirates Melbourne Cup
		Melbourne was relatively young having been discovered in 1833 and, at the height of the Cup's inception, was experiencing the Gold Rush with many people flocking to Melbourne, and subsequently Bendigo and Ballarat, in the hope of a life changing experience.
		Like many Melbourne Cups before, it was a case of what might have been, as jockey Malcolm Johnson admitted to taking off too early on one of the true greats of the turf.
		In 2000 the gold content of the owners' Melbourne Cup trophy was increased to 18 carat and by 2005 the value of the gold cup trophy had escalated to $80,000.
	www.melbournecup.com /melbourne-cup-carnival/history-of-melbourne-cup.asp (4331 words)

	History
		Melbourne graffiti is a comfortable-class phenomenon a leisure pursuit of insubordinate youth from the prosperous Eastern suburbs.
		Kings in Melbourne prefer the open-form lettering of a highly abstract Wildstyle, a sort of translucent, x-ray effect with the linear contours of letters interlacing as a screen of crisscrossing lines.
		Melbourne's front-runner is USA (United Street Artists, aka Claim 2 Fame) which includes 'Paris', 'Peril' and 'Sense', closely followed by WCA (Wild Child Artists) formed by 'Puzzle', 'Reach' and 'Denim', and TGC (T'he Graff Connection) launched by 'Diddle'.
	www.melbournegraffiti.com /history.htm (3146 words)

	Anarchism and History (1971) - Melbourne Anarchist Archives
		For the God of the West stood outside nature but inside history, in contradistinction to all previous Gods, who only were inside history insofar as they were part of the natural order.
		History when truly the product of the masses themselves will necessarily be the history of the masses.
		Then history will be rewritten as the activity of self-liberation, a history of the class struggle the aim of which is to put the means of sustaining life into the hands of the living.
	www.takver.com /history/melb/maa51.htm (1219 words)

	Melbourne's Tram History
		The other factor in Melbourne's favour that is often mentioned is the wide main streets, which meant that there was less obstruction of cars than in other cities.
		By the mid 1970s, Melbourne could see how lucky she had been not to follow the fashions of the '50s, and even the conservative government, normally given to starving public transport to death, agreed to the purchase of new trams.
		A map of Melbourne's tramway history is now available, both in printed form (at Information Victoria in Collins St) and on the net.
	www.railpage.org.au /tram/melbhist.html (1384 words)

	Fast Facts on Melbourne History
		While white Melbourne history is short compared to other world cities, fast facts confirm it as a world class city.
		Melbourne’s growth stalls, and Melbourne history shows that by 1905 it has lost its place behind Sydney as Australia's largest city.
		Melbourne is voted ‘most livable city in the world’ some years in a row.
	www.we-love-melbourne.net /Melbourne-history.html (1338 words)

	A division of Melbourne IT Limited - about us.
		Melbourne IT's mission is to achieve and maintain market leadership in the provision of domain name and online business services through technical excellence, innovation and a resolute commitment to the needs and interests of our customers.
		Melbourne IT originated from within the University of Melbourne in 1996 and quickly established itself as a world leader in the domain name business as the administrator of Australia's commercial domain space - com.au.
		In April 1999, Melbourne IT was accredited by ICANN to provide registrar services in the.com.net and.org domain spaces and in July 2000, became the first ICANN accredited registrar to offer multi-lingual domain names to the global market.
	www.melbourneit.com.au /about (641 words)

	\| Book Review \| Labour History, 85 \| The History Cooperative
		In their notes on 'how to use the register' the authors suggest that we would turn to the moveable heritage list if we were 'putting together an exhibition of union rule-books' or wanting 'to swap badges'.
		The other form of response to the register requires labour historians to bring the qualities of historical imagination and understanding to the sources and take up the task of re-populating the labour precincts by retrieving their stories.
		The authors have chosen to limit the scope of their inquiry to the first 100 years of political radicalism in Melbourne and to concentrate on structures, streets and public spaces that still exist.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/85/br_11.html (1244 words)

	Martial Arts Melbourne Australia History of Melbourne
		Melbourne was founded by John Batman with his immortal words jotted into a diary in 1834 after he had viewed a 270,000 hectare site on the banks of the Yarra River.
		One glance at a map and it’s obvious that Melbourne is a planned city: a tidy, balanced grid of neatly angled streets.
		A short tram ride from the city centre, Melbourne’s suburban neighbourhoods are a must see for anyone wanting to experience what life here is really all about.
	www.geocities.com /kungfumelb/melbhist.html (498 words)

	MELBOURNE, FLORIDA
		According to Jessie Goode, early Melbourne settler, Crane Creek was an area where "White Sportsmen and Seminole Indians came to hunt blue herons, docks, marsh hens, bear, deer, wild turkeys and quail.
		In addition to a well done history of the area, we came upon the names of early forts of the area built mostly to protect the early settlers from the Seminole Indians.
		The steps were a popular place for the young people of Melbourne to meet during their courtship and bluff walk was the local "lover's lane" on cool evenings, if the mosquitoes weren't too bad.
	travel.nostalgiaville.com /florida/melbourne/melbourne11503.htm (2163 words)

	History of Melbourne City, Victoria
		Melbourne's central city area has traditionally been defined as the "Golden Mile", which is the checker-board survey by the government surveyor, Robert Hoddle, who in 1837 fixed a township of six blocks by four blocks.
		Melbourne was a country town, with a rapidly expanding pastoral hinterland as livestock were brought form Tasmania and New South Wales.
		Fortunately for central Melbourne the transport utilities were in place, with railway lines from the suburbs and a dense network of cable trams, mostly put in service between 1887 and 1890.
	localhero.biz /article/permatitle/history_of_melbourne_city,_victoria (4962 words)

	History of Melbourne Cup
		Though renowned for their egalitarianism, they are found of "the sport of king."And one race every year stops the entire nation from working.
		Melbourne Cup Day is fixed for the first Tusday in November.
		It is held at Flemington, a Melbourne suburb which is called after a butcher who once lived there.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~basiced3/cup/history.html (154 words)

	History of the Zoo - Zoos Victoria
		Melbourne Zoo’s layout was modeled after London Zoo, with formal Victorian-era gardens the major attraction when the Zoo first opened, because there were few animals here then, just a few monkeys and a limited selection of native species.
		Dr Butcher believed that knowledge of the organisation’s history was vital to its future success, so as a retirement gift in recognition of his major contribution, the Zoological Board provided a grant for a Melbourne University graduate student to research the Zoo’s history.
		Melbourne Zoo’s history continues to evolve, with developments being planned, new species arriving, and births happening frequently.
	www.zoo.org.au /Melbourne/History_of_the_Zoo (1226 words)

	Art of War : Black History Month : Melbourne Indymedia
		Melbourne Indymedia is a website produced by grassroots media makers offering non-corporate coverage of struggles, actions and celebrations.
		Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere.
		Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by the Melbourne Independent Media Center.
	www.melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2006/02/106622.php (75 words)

	The History of Melbourne Drag - The place for drag queens, female impersonators and the best talent ........
		The History of Melbourne Drag starts in 1970 when entrepreneur Sammy Lee brought a troupe of the famous Sydney Les Girls to perform in Melbourne.
		Their arrival caused a sensation in staid Melbourne and newspapers clamoured to publish pictures of the totally glamorous 'boys' who were appearing at the Ritz Hotel in Fitzroy Street St Kilda.
		Many of these venues established drag shows as their primary entertainments and by the early 1990's Melbourne had a thriving drag industry, with shows of all descriptions providing the mainstay of entertainment in gay venues.
	www.melbournedrag.com /history/history.htm (311 words)

	History of Melbourne - Reference - Melbourne Guide - Only Melbourne
		Edward "Ned" Kelly was born near Melbourne in January 1855 and hanged at the Melbourne gaol on 11 November 1880.
		Melbourne (pronounced /melbn/) is the second most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 3.74 million (2006 estimate).[1] Located around Port Phillip Bay in the country's south-east, Melbourne is the state ca Read more..
		Victorian History Library - The PMI Library has been specialising in the history of Victoria for 25 years, and is the only collection of its kind in Australia which is available for loan.
	www.onlymelbourne.com.au /melbourne.php?id=580 (1923 words)

	History
		Born in part from the demise of the Pram Factory, the need for Melbourne Fringe became clear when it was noticed that the vast majority of artists presenting work at the fledgling Adelaide Fringe were from Melbourne.
		Melbourne Fringe was clearly not the Fringe to something else, but an expression of where Melbourne's artists are in their arts practice in any given year.
		That Melbourne Fringe has been consistently presenting more than 200 shows every year for nearly twenty years, and that this work embraces the broadest range of artforms, is created by artists ranging from mid career household names to the boldest newcomers, and includes increasing numbers of international artists, is a testament to our continued relevance.
	www.melbournefringe.com.au /history.html (561 words)

	Tote History The Melbourne Cup
		This is one of several pages relating to the history of the automatic totalizator, a system that facilitates galloping trotting and greyhound racing betting, its invention in 1913, the inventor George Julius and the Australian company he founded in 1917 which became a monopoly (later an oligopoly) in this field.
		Despite its history, the Cup had to wait 70 years before anyone was able to have a totalisator wager on a starter.
		Melbourne Cup Carnival is one of the main social events of the year, and racing is conducted over four days during Cup Week, with a feature race each day.
	members.ozemail.com.au /~bconlon/melbournecup.htm (1248 words)

	A History of Melbourne Australia
		By 1851 melbourne was already a sizeable town with 29,000 inhabitants.
		Melbourne was connected to Sydney by railway in 1883.
		At the beginning of the 21st century Melbourne was a thriving city.
	www.localhistories.org /melbourne.html (749 words)

	Town of Melbourne Beach
		The railroad consisted of a single push car which was used to transport groceries, supplies and people from the dock at the pier along Ocean Avenue to the ocean.
		Prior to 1920, transportation to and from Melbourne was by a small ferry boat which was a sailboat, later replaced by a motor launch.
		The house was built in 1910, and has been remodeled several times, but it has a unique location and is part of the history of the area.
	www.melbournebeachfl.org /townhistory.htm (1022 words)

	Melbourne - History
		Melbourne laneways and precincts are filled with commercial galleries, craft and design outlets, and fashion boutiques showcasing the innovation and skill of Melbourne-based artists and designers.
		Sports-mad Melbourne is home to world-famous sporting events such as the Melbourne Cup, the Australian Open Tennis and the Qantas Australia Grand Prix.
		Melbourne, renowned for its cafe culture, art scene, multicultural lifestyle and splendid parks, stands on the banks of the Yarra River and the shores of Port Phillip Bay.
	www.about-australia.com /victoria/melbourne/destinations/destination-melbourne/articles/history (894 words)

	Early History
		Melbourne was built one mile along the Yarra River (east to west) and three-quarters of a mile north to south.
		Melbourne was named after the Prime Minister Lord Melbourne of Britain in 1837 too.
		Melbourne was the capital of the Australian Federation.
	www.macalester.edu /courses/geog61/melbourne/history.html (370 words)

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