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''The Herald'' was a morning – and later – evening broadsheet newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia, from 3 January 1840 to 5 October 1990. It later merged with its sister morning newspaper ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' to form the ''Herald-Sun''. Founding The ''Port Phillip Herald'' was first published as a semi-weekly newspaper on 3 January 1840 from a weatherboard shack in Collins Street. It was the fourth newspaper to start in Melbourne. The paper took its name from the region it served. Until its establishment as a separate colony in 1851, the area now known as Victoria was a part of New South Wales and it was generally referred to as the Port Phillip district. Preceding it was the short-lived '' Melbourne Advertiser'' which John Pascoe Fawkner first produced on 1 January 1838 as hand-written editions for 10 weeks and then printed for a further 17 weekly issues, the '' Port Phillip Gazette'' and ''The Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser''. But within e ...
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News Corp Australia
News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of News Corp. The group's interests span newspaper and magazine publishing, Internet, market research, DVD and film distribution, and film and television production trading assets. News Pty Ltd (formerly News Limited) is the holding company of the group. Until the formation of News Corporation in 1979, News Limited was the principal holding company for the business interests of Rupert Murdoch and his family. Since then, News Limited had been wholly owned by News Corporation. In 2004, News Corporation announced its intention to reincorporate to the United States. On 3 November 2004, News Corp Limited ceased trading on the Australian Securities Exchange; and on 8 November, News Corporation began trading on the New York Stock Exchange. On 28 June 2013, News Corporation was split into two separate companies. Murdoch's newspaper interests became News Corp, which was the new parent company of News Li ...
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1932 Ford Model B Truck (12738742863)
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off; Marcus Didius Julianus the highest ...
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Erik Award
The Erik Kuttner Award, known as the Erik Award, was an annual drama critics' award for professional theatre in Melbourne, Australia. Established in 1955, the award had categories for actors, actresses, producers (directors) and designers. It operated through to 1981. The award statuette was designed by Julius Kuhn and was named after Erik Kuttner (died 1954), an actor and producer, commemorating his work in Melbourne theatre. The first ceremony in 1955, featured an appearance by British actress Dame Sybil Thorndike, who presented the best actor and actresses awards. The Erik Awards were succeeded by the Green Room Awards The Green Room Awards are Australian peer awards which recognise excellence in cabaret, dance, theatre companies, independent theatre, musical theatre, contemporary and experimental performance, and opera. The awards, which were established in ... which started in 1982. References Australian theatre awards Theatre in Melbourne Awards established in ...
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DAAO
Design & Art Australia Online (DAAO) is an online database of Australian artists. It is fully integrated with other related databases, using syndicated metadata, making it a dynamic resource. It began as a project begun in the 1970s at the University of Sydney under the leadership of Bernard Smith, then called ''Dictionary of Australian Artists'' (DAA), and was continued after his retirement in 1981 by Joan Kerr. The dictionary went online as the digitised version of the DAA, known as the ''Dictionary of Australian Artists Online'', in the early 2000s, before being revised and extended as ''Design & Art Australia Online'' in 2010. History The project to create the ''Dictionary of Australian Artists'' began in the 1970s at the University of Sydney under the leadership of Bernard Smith and funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC). Its development was continued after his retirement in 1981 by Joan Kerr (1938–2004), who brought a new standard of inclusivity to a work that ...
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John Frith (cartoonist)
''The Herald'' was a morning – and later – evening broadsheet newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia, from 3 January 1840 to 5 October 1990. It later merged with its sister morning newspaper ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' to form the ''Herald-Sun''. Founding The ''Port Phillip Herald'' was first published as a semi-weekly newspaper on 3 January 1840 from a weatherboard shack in Collins Street. It was the fourth newspaper to start in Melbourne. The paper took its name from the region it served. Until its establishment as a separate colony in 1851, the area now known as Victoria was a part of New South Wales and it was generally referred to as the Port Phillip district. Preceding it was the short-lived '' Melbourne Advertiser'' which John Pascoe Fawkner first produced on 1 January 1838 as hand-written editions for 10 weeks and then printed for a further 17 weekly issues, the '' Port Phillip Gazette'' and ''The Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser''. But within e ...
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AFL Grand Final
The AFL Grand Final is an Australian rules football match to determine the premiers for the Australian Football League (AFL) season. Prior to 1990 it was known as the VFL Grand Final, as the league was then known as the Victorian Football League, and both were renamed due to the national expansion of the competition. Played at the end of the finals series, the game has been held annually since 1898, except in 1924. It is traditionally staged on the afternoon of the last Saturday in September, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. As the premier match of the AFL season, it attracts one of the largest audiences in Australian sport, regularly attracting a crowd of more than 100,000 and a television audience of millions. The club which wins the grand final receives the AFL's premiership cup and flag; players on the winning team receive a gold premiership medallion, and the best player receives the Norm Smith Medal. As of the end of 2024, a total of 129 grand finals have been played ...
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William Ellis Green
William Ellis Green (12 August 1923 – 29 December 2008), who signed his cartoons "WEG", was an Australian editorial cartoonist and illustrator who drew the Australian Football League premiership posters from 1954 until his death. Life and career Green's original name was Ian; he later legally changed it to William. Born in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy on 12 August 1923 to an unknown father, Green grew up in Essendon. Torn between becoming an architect or a cartoonist after leaving Essendon High School, he studied architecture at the Melbourne Technical College because his mother warned: "You'll starve if you're a cartoonist." In 1941, at the age of 18, he enlisted in the Australian Army; he was attached to the 15th Brigade Army Intelligence in New Guinea. He drew cartoons that were published in the army's newspaper. Following his discharge from the army at the end of World War II, Green resumed his architectural studies, but he abandoned architecture in favour of a postwa ...
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Samuel Garnet Wells
Samuel Garnet Wells (a.k.a. Samuel Garnet Smith-Wells) (2 February 1885 – 12 March 1972) was an Australian cartoonist, caricaturist, artist, and draughtsman. Over a career of almost half a century, he worked at the '' Williamstown Chronicle'', the ''Melbourne Punch'', the Melbourne ''Herald'', ''The (Manchester) Daily Dispatch'', and the Melbourne ''Age'' as a political/editorial and sporting artist.Dietrich (2011). He was also responsible in his ''Herald'' cartoon o6 July 1923 for suggesting that the Geelong Football Club adopt a black cat as its mascot, and adopt the nickname of "The Cats". Family The son of the civil engineer Samuel Smith Wells (1851–1904) (a.k.a. Samuel Smith-Wells), and Emmeline Wells (1858–1885), née Little, Samuel Garnet Smith Wells was born in North Sydney, New South Wales, on 2 February 1885. Three marriages He married Grace Maud Pike, in Manly, New South Wales on 9 April 1907; they were divorced in May 1912 (the ''decree nisi'' was granted ...
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The Argus (Australia)
''The Argus'' was an Australian daily morning newspaper in Melbourne from 2 June 1846 to 19 January 1957, and was considered to be the general Australian newspaper of record for this period. Widely known as a conservative newspaper for most of its history, it adopted a left-leaning approach from 1949. ''The Argus''s main competitor was David Syme's more liberal-minded newspaper, ''The Age''. History The newspaper was originally owned by William Kerr, who was also Melbourne's town clerk from 1851 to 1856 and had been a journalist at the ''Sydney Gazette'' before moving to Melbourne in 1839 to work on John Fawkner's newspaper, the '' Port Phillip Patriot''. The first edition was published on 2 June 1846. The paper soon became known for its scurrilous abuse and sarcasm, and by 1853, after he had lost a series of libel lawsuits, Kerr was forced to sell the paper's ownership to avoid financial ruin. The paper was then published by Edward Wilson. By 1855, it had a daily circulati ...
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John Walpole Willis
John Walpole Willis (4 January 1793 – 10 September 1877) was a British judge of Upper Canada, British Guiana (as acting Chief Justice), the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and resident judge at Port Phillip, Melbourne. Early life The second son of Captain William Willis (of the 13th Light Dragoons) and his wife Mary Hamilton Smyth (of the family of the Viscounts Strangford), Willis was born at Holyhead, Anglesey, where his father was stationed. He was a descendant of the Willises of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire – from whom descended the Willys baronets of Fen Ditton – through his grandfather, Joseph Willis of Wakefield, Yorkshire, where the family had been settled since the seventeenth century. Willis was educated at Rugby (alongside his elder brother, William Downes Willis), Charterhouse (whence he was expelled for taking a leading part in a school rebellion alongside a fellow student, Wood), and as a fellow-commoner at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he took an ...
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Edmund Finn
Edmund 'Garryowen' Finn (13 January 1819 – 4 April 1898) was an Australian journalist and author who wrote many colorful descriptions of the life and people in early Melbourne. Background Finn was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, the son of William Finn and his wife Catherine, ''née'' Mason. He was educated at The Abbey Galbally Abbey, near Limerick. Finn arrived in Melbourne on 19 July 1841 and was employed as a tutor of the classics. In 1845 Finn joined the staff of the '' Port Phillip Herald'' under editor George Cavenagh. He worked on ''The Herald'' for thirteen years. In 1858 the chief secretary, John O'Shanassy, who had been at school with Finn, appointed him clerk of the papers of the Victorian Legislative Council, a position from which he retired on a pension in 1886 due to failing eyesight. In 1878 he published ''Der Eggsberiences ov Hans Schwarts … with Humorous Interleaves''. ''The Garryowen Sketches … 'by an old Colonist' '' were reprinted as a book i ...
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Nameplate (publishing)
The nameplate (American English) or masthead (British English)The Guardian: ''Newspaper terminology''
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of a newspaper or periodical is its designed title as it appears on the front page or cover. Another very common term for it in the newspaper industry is "the flag". It is part of the publication's branding, with a specific font and, usually, color. It may include other details besides the name, such as Dingbat, ornamentation, a Subtitle (titling), subtitle, or motto. For example, the masthead of ''The Times'' of London includes the Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, British Royal Arms between the words "The" and "Times". Another example is the masthead of ''Daily Record (Scotland), Daily Record'' of Scotland, which include ...
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