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Murray Nicoll
Murray Nicoll (20 July 1943 – 2 May 2010) was an Australian journalist and News presenter, broadcaster whose career spanned more than 45 years. He was best known for providing reports on 5DN radio from his own burning home during the Ash Wednesday fires of 1983. His reports on the fire and the destruction of his house earned Nicoll the 1983 Walkley Award for best radio news report. Nicoll's resume in journalism included stints at ''The News (Adelaide), The News'', in Melbourne radio, including the top rating drive time program on 3AW, and Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ABC radio in Adelaide, Australia. He worked as a television reporter for Seven Network, Channel 7 during the last five years of his life. He earned the 1985 Walkley Award for best radio current affairs report for his radio broadcasts from an expedition to Mount Everest. Nicoll died of leukaemia at his home on 2 May 2010, at the age of 66. He was the uncle of Chris Nicoll, currently head of production for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Various forms of brackets are used in mathematics, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
