Queen Elizabeth gets warm welcome in Australia
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Crowds of cheering youngsters waving Australian flags welcomed Queen Elizabeth II as she and her husband Prince Philip landed at an Australian air force base Wednesday in the nation's capital. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Governor Basic Quentin Bryce, the monarch's representative in Australia, greeted the royal pair, who acquired a 21-gun salute as they emerged from their airplane. The warm welcome arrives despite the ruling …
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Afghanistan Holds First Rock Concert in More Than Three Decades …
The six-hour music festival featured bands from Australia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan .
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Plane hits Ferris wheel in Australia; no injuries (AP)
AP – An ultra-light plane crashed into a Ferris wheel at a rural festival in eastern Australia on Saturday, trapping two children on the ride and two adults in the aircraft for hours. There were no serious injuries.
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Australia Requests Sixth C-17A Globemaster III | Air Force News at …
Minister Smith made this announcement at the Amberley Air Force Base today at the ceremony marking the arrival into Australia of the Royal Australian Air Force 's fifth C-17A. The acquisition of the fifth C-17A was announced …
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mental_floss Blog » 10 Heroic Battlefield Medics
In 1910, Englishman John Simpson Kirkpatrick was a teenage deserter from the British Merchant Navy who found himself stranded in Australia. He enlisted in ANZAC, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps as John …
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‘Spartacus’ star Whitfield dies of lymphoma at 39 (AP)
AP – Andy Whitfield, who played the title role in the hit cable series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” has died at age 39, according to representatives and family.
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Australia selling off its last Sea Kings
A former British navy Sea King HAS5 was delivered to the Australian navy in 1996 and was designated an Mk 50B. To keep its … In 2005, Australia also bought three Sea Kings from the British navy to be used for spare parts. …
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Australian ‘collar bomb’ suspect ordered detained (AP)
AP – The masked man who locked a fake bomb to the neck of an Australian millionaire’s teenage daughter did not look like your ordinary violent criminal. The gray-haired attacker wielded a baseball bat but wore beige trousers and a light-colored dress shirt, rolled up at the elbows.
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IMDb – The Way Ahead | All movies
David Niven reports in his autobiography that the film was shown for many years for training at Sandhurst (the British Army's officer training school). The film was still used for officer training in Australia as …
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Setting foot on Canada's rooftop « Calgary Recreational and …
Program highlights include Australia's very own Top Gun – Matt Hall, the F-18 Super Hornet and the most varied collection of World War II Fighters to gather in Queensland. The Royal Australian Air Force R […] …
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