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	Munro (disambiguation) Information
		Caroline Munro (born January 16, 1950 in Windsor, England) is a British actress and model best known for her many appearances in science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s.
		Sir Hector Munro (1726 - December 27, 1805), was a British military leader of 89th regiment and went on to have military success in India against the Indians and the French.
		Iain Munro Alexander Iain Fordyce Munro (born August 24, 1951 in Uddingston, Lanarkshire) is a Scottish professional footballer, coach, and manager.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Munro_(disambiguation) (509 words)

	James
		James Asheton Bayard James Asheton Bayard (1767-1815) was a lawyer and statesman from Wilmington, Delaware.
		James Hannington James Hannington (1847-1885) is an martyr.
		James Henderson Berry was born in 1866 was admitted to the Arkans...
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	The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (Ja-Ji)
		James Francis Edward Stuart (the Old Pretender) was a reputed son of James II and pretender to the English throne.
		James V was King of Scotland from 1513 to 1542.
		James VI was King of Scotland from 1567 to 1625.
	www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/C7A.HTM (6759 words)

	Indenture, deportation, survival: recent books on Australian South Sea Islanders. - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Australian South Sea Islanders are the descendants of indentured Melanesian workers brought to Queensland between 1863 and 1904.
		The final strand in a complex convergence of influences and opportunities at James Cook University took shape when Reynolds and Dalton secured a research grant to establish the Black Oral History Collection (which became the basis, in the late 1970s, for the North Queensland Oral History Project, which is concerned with the wider community).
		A fine example, in the Australian context, is Ann McGrath, "Born in the Cattle": Aborigines in the Cattle Country (Sydney, 1987).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-20870393.html (6906 words)

	Australian House of Representatives. Who is Australian House of Representatives? What is Australian House of ...
		However, in the rigid Australian party system, this ensures that virtually all contentious votes are along party lines, and the government always has a majority in those votes.
		The Opposition's only real role in the House is to present arguments why the government's policies and legislation are wrong, and attempt to embarrass the government as much as possible by asking difficult questions at question time.
		In a reflection of the color scheme of the House of Commons, the House of Representatives is decorated in green.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Australian_House_of_Representatives (396 words)

	A History of Munro by Michael Munro
		Chief Robert de Munro was married to the daughter of the Earl of Ross and in 1350 had charters confirmed to him by King David II of Scotland for the "Tower of Strathskehech" and "Estirfowlys".
		In 1539 King James V of Scotland granted Strome Castle to the Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry and Hector Munro was made constable of the castle for the MacDonalds of Glengarry.
		James Monroe (1758-1831) was the fifth President of the United States (1817-1825), whose administration was marked by the acquisition of Florida (1819), the Missouri Compromise (1820), in which Missouri was declared a slave state, and the profession of the Monroe Doctrine (1823), declaring U.S. opposition to European interference in the Americas.
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	Clan Munro information - Search.com
		The Munro Clan played an important part during The Wars of Scottish Independence firstly alongside William Wallace in battles such as the Battle of Dunbar (1296), Battle of Stirling Bridge (1297), Battle of Falkirk (1298) and later alongside Robert the Bruce at the Battle of Bannockburn (1314) and the Battle of Halidon Hill (1333).
		Robert Mor Munro 15th chief of the clan was a staunch supporter of Mary Queen of Scots and he consequently was treated favourably by her son James VI.
		Sir Robert Munro was put in command of an English regiment at the Battle of Falkirk (1746) and the Munro Clan themselves fought at the Battle of Culloden.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Clan_Munro (3580 words)

	Richard Casey, Baron Casey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron Casey (29 August 1890 - 17 June 1976), Australian politician and diplomat and 16th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Brisbane, Queensland.
		Casey retired in 1960, and was created "Baron Casey, of Berwick in the State of Victoria and the Commonwealth of Australia, and of the City of Westminister", becoming the third and last Australian politician (after Sir John Forrest and Stanley Bruce) to be elevated to the House of Lords.
		One of the arguments against appointing an Australian, particularly a former politician, as Governor-General had always been that they would be too closely involved with Australian personalities and issues to perform their constitutional role impartially.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Casey,_Baron_Casey (918 words)

	Munro, James (1832 - 1908) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		MUNRO, JAMES (1832-1908), businessman, temperance leader and politician, was born on 7 January 1832 in Sutherlandshire, Scotland, son of Donald Munro, and his wife Georgina, née Mackey.
		Munro had thousands of shares in the Federal, the Grand and the Victoria which competed with each other in Melbourne and the Broken Hill and Geelong Grand Coffee Palaces; he was a director of all but the last and all were in difficulties by 1890.
		In 1886 Munro re-entered the assembly for the temperance stronghold of Geelong.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A050358b.htm (1546 words)

	Book Encyclopedia - Web Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		William Morris "Billy" Hughes (September 25 1862 - October 28 1952), Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia, the longest-serving member of the Australian Parliament, and one of the most controversial figures in Australian political history.
		This did not deter Hughes, who argued viciously and vigorously in favour of it, producing a deep and bitter split in his own party as well as in the Australian community In November 1916 he was expelled from the Labor Party.
		He was the last member of the original Australian Parliament elected in 1901 still in the Parliament when he died.
	www.bookencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Billy_Hughes (1366 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Mc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1839 James Macarthur was nominated to the legislative council and in 1859 was elected to the legislative assembly.
		He was interested in the newly-formed Australian Academy of Art, because he considered it was necessary to have a body which could speak for Australian artists as a whole, and sat on its council for two or three years before his death.
		He was president of the zoological section of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science in 1928, was a fellow of the Royal Society, Edinburgh, and was knighted in 1929.
	www.gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogMc.html (20118 words)

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		In 1688, while King James II was still reigning in England, the shores of Australia received a visit from a company of buccaneers who included an Englishman with a talent for picturesque writing and an inborn love of adventure--William Dampier.
		James Cook, who was selected to command the expedition, had already won the confidence of the Admiralty by some excellent charting work which he had done in the St. Lawrence, at Newfoundland, and at Labrador.
		James Maria Matra, in a letter to Lord Sydney, Secretary of State for the Home Department, in 1783, pointed out that the distress of the American loyalists might be relieved by sending them out to populate the empty spaces of New Holland.
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	Rupert Hamer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Rupert James Hamer (29 July 1916 - 23 March 2004), generally known until he was knighted in 1982 as Dick Hamer, Australian politician, was Liberal Premier of the state of Victoria from 1972 to 1981.
		Hamer was born in Melbourne and educated at Geelong Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, where he graduated in law.
		He joined the Australian Army in 1939 and served at Tobruk and El Alamein and in New Guinea and Normandy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rupert_Hamer (668 words)

	Articles - Graham Berry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He was one of the most radical and colourful figures in the politics of colonial Victoria, and made the most determined efforts to break the power of the Victorian Legislative Council, the stronghold of the landowning class.
		He was re-elected in 1864, but his criticism of James McCulloch's government during the tariff crisis of 1865 led to his defeat in that year's snap election.
		The conservatives under James Service formed a weak government, which resigned in June 1880, leading to another election, which the liberals won, though not as convincingly as they had done in 1877.
	www.furniture-center.net /articles/Graham_Berry (1445 words)

	National Portrait Gallery A-Z of Portrait Sitters (A)
		James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn (1811-1885), Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.
		James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn (1869-1953), Soldier, politician and governor of Northern Ireland.
		James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger (1769-1844), Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
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	Dictionary of Australian Biography D (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As an Australian poet he is possibly the finest of those between Kendall and the coming of O'Dowd and Brennan (q.v.).
		In November 1890 the government was defeated, James Munro (q.v.) became premier, and Deakin was not in office in a Victorian government again.
		He was educated at the Australian College under Dr Lang (q.v.), obtained a position as a young man in a Sydney wine merchant's business, and afterwards was in partnership as a merchant with a brother.
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	James Francis - Definition, explanation
		James Goodall Francis (9 January 1819 - 25 January 1884), Australian colonial politician, was the 9th Premier of Victoria.
		Francis was born in London, and emigrated to Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1847, where he became a businessman.
		He was later a minister without portfolio in the government of James Service in 1880.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/j/ja/james_francis.php (314 words)

	thePeerage.com - Exhibit
		Bruce, Stanley Melbourne, Viscount Bruce of Melbourne 1883-1967, Australian prime minister and diplomatist, was born in Melbourne 15 April 1883, the youngest of the four sons and one daughter of John Munro Bruce and his wife, Mary Ann Henderson, who both came from Ireland.
		In 1932 he led the Australian delegation to the Ottawa conference and played a major role working on all the committees, to safeguard Australian economic interests, and wrestling with Baldwin and Chamberlain.
		He was convinced of the vital importance of Australian relations with the United States and never missed an opportunity of consultation with visiting Americans, from Harry Hopkins and Eisenhower down.
	www.thepeerage.com /e451.htm (2679 words)

	The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading ...
		A woman charged by police with plotting a bomb attack was allegedly directed by her boyfriend - a jail inmate.
		Australian Muslim leaders condemn moves in Afghanistan to execute a Christian convert.
		Australian feature film made for $20,000 will screen at Robert De Niro's Tribeca film festival.
	www.smh.com.au /am/2006/03/26 (774 words)

	James Mitchell at AllExperts
		James Mitchell (Australian* politician), Premier and Governor of Western Australia.
		Sir James* Fitz-Allen Mitchell, Former Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
		James William Mitchell, a British author, often wrote under the pseudonym James* Munro.
	en.allexperts.com /e/j/ja/james_mitchell.htm (227 words)

	The Biography of Early Australia
		James Munro (q.v.) became premier, and Deakin was not in office in a Victorian government again.
		The Australian representatives were greatly pleased that they had been able to get the act passed with so little amendment.
		Deakin was a great Australian and a great man. He began as a dreamer, he was always an idealist, yet he realized that he was in a world of men who had to be lived with.
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	Australian Weather Mailing List Archives: Thursday, 17 June 1999
		From: "James Chambers" [jamestorm at ozemail.com.au] To: [aussie-weather at world.std.com] Subject: Re: aus-wx: Brisbane Suburbs Could go Below 0 Tonight Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 02:32:34 +1000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 Sender: aussie-weather-approval at world.std.com Reply-To: aussie-weather at world.std.com Hi all....
		Complain to your politician, not the Bureau which is only too well aware of the problems.
		So what we're left with is --AWS obs which are always on time and more frequent than all but major airport manned stations can achieve, but are occasionally erroneous and have problems maintaining a continuous climatic record, and --human obs which have their own set of unreliabilities.
	www.australiasevereweather.com /storm_news/aussiewx/1999/990617.htm (9282 words)

	Educational Support and Inclusion : Person-Directed Planning: Where is It Going and Is It a Good Place to Go?
		Drawing on Australian and international research and publications, the paper outlines major changes that have occurred in the practice of individual planning in the past twenty five years.
		In the run-up to decimal currency, Labor politician, Fred Daly, suggested that the Australian currency should be 'the Ming', the nickname for Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, as a permanent reminder of the decline in the currency's value!
		Australian Society for the Study of Intellectual Disability Inc. Newcastle.
	www.canberra.edu.au /schools/ecs/education/inclusion/papers/shaddock2000?SQ_DESIGN_NAME=print (4173 words)

	Berry, Sir Graham (1822 - 1904) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		However, the attempt of the treasurer, James Service, to rationalize Berry's tariff and to introduce direct taxes to meet a deficit led many protectionist supporters of the ministry to desert.
		In 1891 James Munro, the new premier, wrote privately that he would support a third term.
		Although elected leader of the Opposition, he stood down in 1894 for younger and stronger men, and the Liberal Party which in 1894-99 presided over Victoria's recovery and her part in Federation was led by George Turner.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A030143b.htm (3829 words)

	Australian, Asian and Pacific Books from Felicity Books
		Biography of a noted Australian cameraman who worked at his profession for 20 years and was ultimately killed while filming an attempted coup in Bangkok.
		The story of the Australian Aboriginal family that includes Ernie Dingo, the actor and TV personality, and their life in central Western Australia.
		The famous Australian radio club aired during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and commanding the allegiance of thousands of children.
	www.felicity.com.au /books_aust.htm (12807 words)

	Malvern Historical Society (Stonnington) - Who's Who
		In 1915 Gullett was appointed Australian official war correspondent with the British and French armies on the Western Front.
		Munro, the son of James Munro, Premier of Victoria, was a partner with W. Baillieu in a successful auctioneering business, until he was financially ruined by the economic crash of the 1890s, and never lived in his new home.
		Hartley Williams, the Australian born son of Sir Edward Eyre Williams of Como House, was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court on the death of Sir Redmond Barry in 1881.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~malvern/whos_who.htm (4733 words)

	Charles Gavan Duffy - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (12 April 1816 - 9 February 1903) Irish nationalist and Australian colonial politician, was the 8th Premier of Victoria and one of the most colourful figures in Victorian political history.
		In 1871 Duffy led the opposition to Premier James McCulloch's plan to introduce a land tax, on the grounds that it unfairly penalised small farmers.
		One of his sons, John Gavan Duffy, was a Victorian politician between 1874 and 1904.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Charles_Gavan_Duffy (772 words)

	Coopers History of Prahran: Chapter 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When James Mason "arranged" to have the Mechanics' Institute next to his hotel, the "Royal George," it was said he had an eye to his bar receipts.
		James Mason's action in erecting the George Hotel served as a link between Windsor and Commercial-road, and the gradually increasing number of houses between them formed a chain that has since been completed.
		James was a member of the Melbourne Cricket Club, and John coached the Williamstown Cricket Club team.
	www.stonnington.vic.gov.au /library/online/coopers_history_of_prahran_chap8.htm (8135 words)

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