Benjamin Herschel Babbage
Benjamin Herschel Babbage (1815—1878) was an English scientist, engineer and explorer. Babbage was the son of the famous mathematician, Charles Babbage. He went to South Australia to map the geography and the location of minerals.
Babbage was very thorough, and spent a lot of time making sure that his information was correct. He carried a lot of equipment, as well as four and half tonnes of food, enough to last 18 months in the desert. Among his supplies he had 20 kilograms of chocolate and 5000 litres of water. He also took a flock of 150 sheep, which limited the speed the group could move. The government became frustrated with Babbage's slow progress, they wanted to know about possible farm lands and valuable minerals as soon as possible. Eventually Babbage was removed from the job and replaced by Major Peter Warburton.
Babbage later helped on the planning for the Australian Overland Telegraph Line. He was interested in growing grapes and retired to his large vineyard at St.Marys. He died on 20 October 1878, and is buried at St.Marys.
Stuart Highway
The Stuart Highway is one of Australia's major roads. It links Port Augusta, South Australia, with Darwin in the Northern Territory a distance of 2,834 km. It is named after the explorer John McDouall Stuart, and much of the road follows the route he took on his epic journey in 1862. The highway is promoted as a tourist attraction, called the "Explorer's Way". For many years in Australia it was simply known as "The Track". Towns on the highway include Marla, Coober Pedy, Alice Springs, Tennant Creek and Katherine.
Malva
Malva is a genus of about 25-30 species of plants commonly called mallows. It is the type genus in the family Malvaceae. Several species are widely grown as garden flowers, while some are invasive weeds,such as M. neglecta. The color mauve is named after the French name of the plant. The word Mallow comes from the old English "malwe" which was imported from the word "Malva".
Poinsettia
Poinsettia is a red and green plant popular at Christmas time. It grows in Mexico and Central America and is an important export for these countries. It belongs to the order Malpighiales.
Gold Coast (Florida)
The Gold Coast is a region on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida. It is between Tequesta and Florida City. It includes the cities of Miami and Fort Lauderdale, as well as West Palm Beach, Boca Raton, and Hollywood.
Erysipeloid
Erysipeloid is a mild disease caused by the bacterium Erysipelothrix. The only symptom is mild cellulitis. The disease is very rare and is seen in people who handle raw fish or meat.
Dipsacaceae
Dipsacaceae, or teasel family, was a family in the order Dipsacales. It contained 350 species of perennial or biennial herbs and shrubs. ("Perennial" means that a plant lives for two or more years. "Biennial" means that a plant takes two years to grow fully.) The family contained eleven (11) genera. It is in the family Caprifoliaceae now.
These plants live in most temperate climates. They are found in Europe, Asia, and Africa. The family contains these genera:
Venda language
Venda, also called ' or ', is a Bantu language and an official language of South Africa. Most Venda speakers live in South Africa, but some speakers live in Zimbabwe. The Venda language is very similar to the Kalanga language, which is spoken in Botswana and Zimbabwe. During the Apartheid era of South Africa, Venda speakers lived in the bantustan of Venda.
Venda is a language in the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
Venda is spoken by about 666,000 people in the northern part of South Africa's Limpopo Province. Around 84,000 people in Zimbabwe also speak the language.
The Venda language uses the Latin alphabet. It has five (5) extra accented letters. Four consonants have a circumflex below the letter ("ḓ", "ḽ", "ṋ", "ṱ") and one consonant has an overdot ("ṅ").
The letters C, J, and Q are used when writing foreign words and names.
The extra letters have these Unicode names
Deinococcus radiodurans
Deinococcus radiodurans is a gram-positive, nonmotile, red-pigmented bacterium. It was originally identified as a contaminant of irradiated canned meat in 1956.
"Deinococcus radiodurans" has the systems for DNA repair, DNA damage export and genetic redundancy. It can recover from desiccation (loss of water) and starvation. It has a very high tolerance to radiation forms like gamma radiation. It is so far known as the most radioactive resistant organism. Thioredoxin reductase is an enzyme found in the cells' response to double-strand DNA breaks.
"D. radiodurans has" a gene sequence that encodes for a protein that is very similar to the RecD enzyme found in "E. coli". This significant finding suggests that this RecD-like protein in "D. radiodurans" is an important part of the repair system it uses.
It may be possible to make other bacteria as radiation resistant as "D. radiodurans" by changing their genetics. One research team in China is trying to insert an expressive recombinant Mn-SOD protein from "D. radiodurans" into "E.coli" BL21. The real challenge here is making the protein self-sustaining in the new species. The team has "provided the foundations for further studies and applications of the recombinant Mn-SOD".
The genus "Deinococcus" has 47 species, which share these characteristics. "D. radiodurans" is the one discovered first, and on which most experiments have been done. All members of the genus are radio-resistant.
Karl Zankl
Karl Zankl († 3 October 1945) was an Austrian football player and coach.
He played for Cricketer, Polizei SV and Wiener Sport-Club as midfielder. With Sport-Club he became Austrian champion 1922 and Cup winner 1923. During the Second World War he was engaged in a resistance group against the nazis. At the end of the war he tried to reestablish the Austrian Football Federation (ÖFB). He also formed a national football team and became the first coach of the post war aera. He also was the first president of the Vienna Football association after the World War.
Menindee, New South Wales
Menindee is a small town on the banks of the Darling River in New South Wales, Australia. It is 1,271 km west of the state capital, Sydney. There are about 980 people who live in Menindee. The explorer Major Thomas Mitchell was the first Europen to visit the area in 1835. He named the lakes in the area Laidley Ponds. A hotel was built by Tom Paine in 1853, which became an important supply base for the Burke and Wills expedition in 1860.
Adelaide River
The Adelaide River is in the Northern Territory of Australia. It starts in the Lichfield National Park and flows into the sea at Clarence Strait, about 50 km northeast of Darwin. The river is about 253 km in length. It is well known for its Saltwater Crocodiles.
Europeans first explored the river in 1839 when a British sailor, Ben Helpmann, explored it by boat.
Eduard Bauer
Eduard "Edi" Bauer (* 13 February 1894 - 4 March 1948) was an Austrian football player and coach. He played for SK Rapid Wien and the Austrian national football team as striker. He was also coach of the Austrian national football team.
Eduard Bauer died 1948 in duty through complications after an operation.
Roper River
The Roper River is in the Northern Territory of Australia. It flows east for 400 km from near Mataranka before it flows into the Gulf of Carpentaria.
The Roper was first explored by Europens in 1845, when the explorer Ludwig Leichardt crossed on his way west from Moreton Bay to Port Essington. He name it after a member of his group, John Roper. It is can be used by boats as far as the Roper Bar, and in the 1880's there were several paddlesteamers working on the river.
Mary River (Northern Territory)