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Jess Scully
Jess Scully is a curator, author, and local politician in Australia. She has served as a Councillor on the City of Sydney#Council, City of Sydney Council from 2016 to 2023, including as List of mayors, lord mayors and administrators of Sydney, Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney from 2019 to 2022. She is the founding director of the Vivid Sydney#Vivid Ideas, Vivid Ideas program within the Vivid Sydney festival, and her book, ''Glimpses of Utopia: Real Ideas for a Fairer World'', was published in 2020. Early life and education Scully was born in 1980 or 1981 in Liverpool, New South Wales, and spent her early childhood in Bossley Park. She has one sister and is the daughter of emigrant parents, with her father from Bangalore and her mother from Chile. Her father became a furniture salesperson, and her mother an interior decorator. Her mother left Chile for Australia with her parents after the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. Scully attended primary school in Chile when her family moved to Chile ... [...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. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
