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  Alexander Downer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Downer was born in Adelaide, South Australia, into one of the state's oldest families (irreverently known as Old Adelaide Families or OAFs).
Downer was educated at Geelong Grammar School, Radley College and at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in Britain.
Downer's family background and his Cultivated Australian English accent — rare in public life by the 1990s and regarded as sounding "snobby", "patronising" and/or "aloof" — have always made him vulnerable to political attacks which exploit anti-elitist sentiment.
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 Encyclopedia: Alexander Downer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Alec Downer Sir Alexander Russell Downer (7 April 1910 _ 30 March 1981), Australian politician generally known as Alec Downer, was born in Adelaide, the son of John Downer, a former Premier of South Australia and member of the Australian Senate.
John Downer (1843–1915) was the Premier of South Australia from 16 June 1885 until 11 June 1887.
John Malcolm Fraser (born 21 May 1930), Australian politician and 22nd Prime Minister of Australia, came to power in the circumstances of the dismissal of the Whitlam government.
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 Why War? Keywords: Alexander Downer
Alexander John Gosse Downer (born September 9, 1951), Australian politician, became Foreign Minister of Australia in March 1996.
Downer was educated at an exclusive Adelaide school and at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Britain.
He was greatly helped by the changed international situation after the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, which caused a majority of Australians to support the Howard Government's policy of close alliance with the US and support for the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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 Edward Downer - nerg03.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Andrew Downer (Isaack, Edward) was born on 16 Mar 1689 in Shorwell, Isle of Wight.
Mary Downer was born in 1719 in Shorwell, Isle of Wight.
Isaak Downer (Isaack, Edward) was born in 1698 in Shorwell, Isle of Wight.
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 Alexander Downer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Alexander John Gosse Downer (born September 9, 1951), Australia n politician, became Foreign Minister of Australia in March 1996.
However, Downer struggled against Keating's parliamentary tactics, and he never shook off Keating's jibe that he was "the idiot son of the aristocracy".
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 Alexander Downer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Downer was born in Adelaide South Australia into one of the state's oldest (irreverently known as Old Adelaide Families or His father Sir Alexander "Alec" Downer was a member of the Australian 1949 - 1964 and later High Commissioner in London.
Downer was educated at an exclusive Adelaide and at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Britain.
The Liberals were in opposition fron 1983 to 1996 and Downer held a number of on the Opposition front bench from 1987 onwards.
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 Downer page
George Downer (1879-1974), a great-grandson of William and Ann, married Annie Lyle DENNETT (1866-1960) at Steyning in 1900.
This John Downer (1743-1814) married Lucy SAYERS (?-1815) at Thakeham in 1769.
John Downer (1845-1906) married Jane PARKER (1851-1918) at West Chiltington in 1873.
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 Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Georgia
Said Downer's son, George Downer, was present and told deponent that if he did not suffer himself to be stripped and tied and whipped that his father would shoot him, whereupon rather than be shot deponent submitted, took off his shirt, let his breeches down on the ground, and exposed his whole naked person.
About half an hour after he Downer whipt me I started to Town to report the treatment I had received and I had got about four miles on the way when I was overtaken by John Downer who ordered me to go back again to the plantation.
Downer's house open and thought he was watching me with the intention of shooting me so I was afraid to come out and waited until we started to the field next morning when I slipped off to Town to make my complaint and to seek for redress.
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 Word From Rome October 3, 2003
By JOHN L. The pope’s physical struggles in Slovakia, the cancellation of his Sept. 24 general audience, and an interview with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in the German magazine Bunte in which Ratzinger invited prayers for the pope, produced widespread alarm this week that John Paul was about to die.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, which holds that John Paul II should have “stacked the deck” with like-minded conservatives in order to ensure that his successor is a man much like himself, the pope has given the Church quite a diverse bunch of new cardinals.
Downer told reporters that he had thanked the pope for the honor to Pell, saying that “most Australians” were pleased — an indirect reference to criticism from more liberal Australians, including the auxiliary bishop of Canberra, Pat Power.
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 SA Parliament   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Twice Premier of South Australia and Senator in the first Commonwealth Parliament, Sir John Downer was born in Adelaide in 1843.
In 1878, Downer was elected to the House of Assembly, quickly establishing a strong presence in the Parliament.
Downer continued as Opposition Leader for the remainder of the 1890's, a period which also saw him take an active interest in moves towards Federation.
www.parliament.sa.gov.au /pp/html/downer.shtm   (254 words)

  
 Downer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Downer, a former Premier of South Australia and member of the inaugural Australian Senate
Alexander Downer, John Downer's grandson and the current Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
Downer, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra, Australia, named for John Downer
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 BBC - Press Office - Pride
John Downer (who made the acclaimed documentaries Lions: Spy In The Den and Elephants: Spy In The Herd) is one of the world's most prominent natural history film makers.
John Downer was inspired with the idea of making a drama with talking lions when he was filming his acclaimed documentary Lions: Spy In The Den.
Continues Downer: "Helen was the first person we signed and recorded and she immediately put down a performance that was the backbone of the piece.
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 A journey into Downer's dark past - Opinion - smh.com.au
John William was later articled to brother Henry Edward, admitted to the South Australian Bar in 1867, and, with elder brother George, a prominent pastoralist, founded the "leading legal firm, J. and G. Downer".
John entered state politics in 1878, became attorney-general in 1881 and was twice premier of his state - 1885-87 and 1892-93.
The son of his second marriage was Alexander Russell Downer, later a cabinet minister in the Menzies government in 1949 and, as Sir Alexander, Australian high commissioner to London in 1964.
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 2004 Lieberman Memorial Lecture John Downer
The emphasis of John Downer's presentation will be on historical letterforms from diverse sources and miscellaneous media, which have influenced the development of type, typographic styles, and fashions in printing.
Downer's observations will call into question traditional motives for reviving types, while applauding the efforts of certain notable attempts to adapt archaic letter shapes to new purposes, in the name of typeface revivalism.
Downer has continued down the path of commercial brush lettering while adapting his personal notions of letterform and proportion to computer-based design of type.
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 South Dakota Eminent Farmers & Homemakers
Downer was a delegate from South Dakota to the National Farm Congress; and at the time of his Eminent Farmer citation, was treasurer of that organization.
Downer was also recognized as a breeder of pure bred livestock, including cattle, hogs, and poultry.
Downer worked on his fatherÂ’s farm until he was 22.
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 AM - Australian journalist tells of capture in Iraq
John Martinkus was reporting for SBS when Iraqi nationalists put pistols to his head and held him for 20 hours before releasing him unharmed.
ALEXANDER DOWNER: In this particular case, the journalist went out to investigate a story, I understand, and went to a part of Baghdad that he was advised not to go to, but he went there anyway, and journalists do do that sort of thing.
JOHN MARTINKUS: Well that's ridiculous, because I was actually in the street outside the only hotel in Baghdad occupied by journalists — the al Hamra — which is directly across the road from the Australian embassy.
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 John Downer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
John Downer chose history as a major because he believed it would help prepare him for a career in law, politics, teaching or research.
Downer, whose father was in the military, had lived in Germany in the early '80s and Iran in 1978.
Downer is responsible for scheduling their time at the ministry center, setting up housing, orienting them, debriefing them, and leading them while they are visiting.
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 Font Bureau People | John Downer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in Tacoma, Washington in 1951, John Downer grew up and began sign painting in the Pacific Northwest.
Rather than referring to existing type or historical models for his original designs, Downer draws from the rich heritage of American sign painting.
Downer continues down the path of commercial brush lettering while adapting his personal notions of letterform & proportion to computer-based design of type; he introduces a particular, non-typographic genus of alphabet to the Font Bureau’s library of fonts.
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 John Downer
John Downer was born in 1951, and began training as a sign painter while he was in high school.
Downer's professional activities include sign painting, lettering, glass gilding, type design, typography, and logo design.
Downer's debut text family Iowan Old Style was published in 1991 (without expert sets).
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 Alexander Downer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer has seized on media reports that Zimbabwe's Deputy Agriculture Minister has admitted that food has run out in his...
Alexander Downer has served as Australia's minister for foreign affairs for nearly a decade.
Australia's Foreign Minister Alexander Downer has warned the greatest challenge is ensuring that all of the countries involved are open and honest about how...
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 Downer: The Man That Matters!
You are probably wondering why I haven't declared Alexander Downer the best member for Mayo ever, after all, he is the GREATEST Minister for Foreign Affairs in the country.
This is because of people like Sir John Downer, who got Australia federated, and now everyone can travel to any state and live there without needing a passport or anything (except maybe a house).
I have not seen one, but some-one told me Shaun Micallef and the ABC made one called "The Downer Months", based on the time Alexander Downer was leader of the Opposition.
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 creativepro.com - dot-font: Paperback Reader
John Downer's new type family Paperback is designed to work as a text face for ordinary books.
John Downer designed Paperback as a type family for books, especially mass-market paperbacks.
Downer has created many of the curves and joins in the characters by using complex facets, a series of straight angles rather than a single smooth curve.
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 Downer, Alexander John Gosse --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Thus, when Alexander Downer became leader of the Liberal Party of Australia on May 23, 1994, he faced not only a party in disarray but also the burden of a distinguished background.
American sculptor best known as the originator of the mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture the delicately balanced or suspended components of which move in response to motor power or air currents; by contrast, Calder's stationary sculptures are called stabiles.
John F. Kennedy is still considered one of the most popular U.S. presidents.
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 Alexander Downer senior - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
(7_April 1910 - 30_March 1981), Australian politician generally known as Alec Downer, was born in Adelaide, the son of John_Downer, a former Premier_of_South_Australia and member of the Australian_Senate.
After the war Downer joined the Liberal_Party_of_Australia and in 1949 he was elected to the House of Representatives for a rural South Australian seat.
He was knighted in 1965, becoming Sir Alexander Downer.
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 BBC - Drama - Pride - Backstage
John Downer: Because we weren't familiar with HD, and very few people were, we assumed that effects work would be easier.
In fact, the opposite is true, because there's so much compression on the HD footage, because it ends up on the same tape as a digi beta tape, effectively, we just compress it more.
John Downer: And although you can see the lions are talking, I didn't want to go the Cats and Dogs route where they're exaggerated and cartoon-like.
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 creativepro.com - John D. Berry - Creativepro.com Authors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
John D. Berry is an editor/typographer who works both sides of the design/content divide.
John D. Berry shines the light on a foundry renowned in Europe for its type revivals.
John D. Berry urges those who know something about type to take matters into their own hands.
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 7.30 Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
JOHN CLARKE: I doubt that he would have seen a defence lawyer.
JOHN CLARKE: Well, from what I understand, Bryan, he's lucky to see any bloody lawyer at all.
JOHN CLARKE: I don't know what he's being charged with, Bryan, but what I'm indicating to you is he probably bloody did it.
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 Emigre versus Hrant Papazian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Los Angeles-based typophile and type critic Hrant Papazian told John Downer, the designer of Brothers, an Emigre typeface, that he was using Brothers Bold on his web pages.
John Downer contacted Emigre, which, after checking its files, noticed that Hrant had not paid for the font.
Hrant is rightly upset at the fundamentalist approach to enforcement preached by Downer.
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 Dynasties: A Liberal Legacy
His grandfather, Sir John Downer was the Premier of South Australia and a founding father of Federation.
Alexander Downer's father, Sir Alexander, was Minister for Immigration in Sir Robert Menzie's government.
But Alexander Downer is also a scion of the Adelaide establishment — a class that has its roots in the founding of South Australia, a uniquely convict-free colony built on the reformist principles of political and religious tolerance.
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