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Sacré Cœur School
Sacré Cœur is a Roman Catholic, Independent school, independent, day school for girls, located in Glen Iris, Victoria, Glen Iris, a south eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Victoria, Australia. Established in 1888, the school caters to over 700 students from Prep to Year 12 and has an open-entry policy.Sacré Cœur- Principal's Welcome (accessed:30-06-2007) It offers the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE). Sacré Cœur is a member of Girls Sport Victoria (GSV), the Junior School Heads Association of AustraliaJSHAA Victoria- Member Directory (accessed:30-06-2007) and the Association of Heads ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glen Iris, Victoria
Glen Iris is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, South-East Melbourne, south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the Cities of City of Boroondara, Boroondara and City of Stonnington, Stonnington Local government areas of Victoria, local government areas. Glen Iris recorded a population of 26,131 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. Glen Iris had been Melbourne's geographical center of population, centre of population from the 1990s to the 2020s, with urban sprawl seeing Melbourne's centre of population shifting to Camberwell, Victoria, Camberwell in the 2020s. History Captain Thomas Henderson, of the Royal Australian Navy, Royal Navy, arrived in Melbourne on a ship called ''Iris'' in 1850. He acquired a property bounded by Gardiners Creek, High Street and a line extending Summerhill Road to Gardiners Creek. The property was advertised for sale as ''Glen Iris'', in 1852. Robert K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joigny
Joigny () is a commune in the Yonne département in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. It is located on the banks of the river Yonne. History The current city, originally known as Joviniacum in Latin, was founded during Roman times by Flavius Jovinus prefect of the Roman militia in Gaul in AD 369. During medieval times, it was fortified as a stronghold at the end of the 10th century by , Count of Sens, on part of the lands of the Sainte-Marie du Charnier de Sens Abbey. The Porte du Bois, a gateway with two massive flanking towers, is a relic of the castle. After passing through several hands, it came into the possession of the family of Villeroi in the 18th century. A fragment of a ladder preserved in the church of St André commemorates the successful resistance offered by the town to the English in 1429. Population Some notable people * Marcel Aymé * Edme Joachim Bourdois de La Motte, first physician to Napoleon's son * Yom Tov of Joigny, Rabbi and po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Paralympic Games
The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, were an international multi-sport event, multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). Originally scheduled to take place from 25 August to 6 September 2020, both the 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were postponed by a year in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the rescheduled Games still referred to as ''Tokyo 2020'' for marketing and branding purposes. As with the Olympics, the Games were largely held Behind closed doors (sport), behind closed doors with no outside spectators due to a state of emergency in the Greater Tokyo Area and other prefectures. The Games were the second Summer Paralympics hosted by Tokyo since 1964 Summer Paralympics, 1964, and the third Paralympics held in Japan overall since the 1998 Winter Paralympics in Nagano (city), Nagano. Due to the postp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gold Medalist
A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have been awarded in the arts, for example, by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, usually as a symbol of an award to give an outstanding student some financial freedom. Others offer only the prestige of the award. Many organizations now award gold medals either annually or extraordinarily, including various academic societies. While some gold medals are solid gold, others are gold-plated or silver-gilt, like those of the Olympic Games, the Lorentz Medal, the United States Congressional Gold Medal and the Nobel Prize medal. Nobel Prize medals consist of 18 karat green gold plated with 24 karat gold. Before 1980, they were struck in 23 karat gold. Military origins Before the establishment of standard military awards, e.g., the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paige Greco
Paige Greco (born 19 February 1997) is an Australian Paralympic cyclist who won gold medals at the 2019 World Track Championships in C1-3 women's pursuit 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. She broke the World Record setting a new one of 3:52.283 in the 3000m individual pursuit at the Tokyo Paralympics. Personal life Greco has cerebral palsy which mainly affects the right side of her body. She has completed an Exercise Science Degree at the University of South Australia. Cycling Greco is classified as a C3 cyclist. Before turning to cycling, Greco was a promising track and field athlete. In 2018, Greco moved from Victoria to South Australian Sports Institute to be coached by Loz Shaw. At the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, she won gold medals in the Women's 3 km Pursuit C3 and C3 500m Time Trial. In qualifying for Women's 3 km Pursuit final, Greco's time of 4mins 0.206secs broke the existing world record by three seconds. In the 500 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicia Eva
Alicia Eva (born 2 April 1991) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for the Collingwood Football Club in 2017. Eva was selected in the AFL Women's All-Australian team and won the Gabrielle Trainor Medal in her first season at the Giants in 2018. She served as Greater Western Sydney captain from 2020 to 2023, and is Greater Western Sydney's games record holder with 68 games. Early life Eva grew up supporting the Melbourne Football Club, and her favourite player was their former captain David Neitz. Eva was forced to stop playing local football at the age of thirteen when she was no longer allowed to play alongside boys, and instead took up coaching. Eva played state league football with in the VFL Women's (VFLW). AFL Women's career Collingwood (2017) Eva was drafted by with the club's seventh selection, fifty-fourth overall, in the 2016 AFL Women's draft. She was appointed vice-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kath & Kim (Australian TV Series)
''Kath & Kim'' (also written as ''Kath and Kim'') is an Australian sitcom originally airing in the prime-time slot on ABC Television from 2002 to 2005 and subsequently on the Seven Network in 2007 and 2022. The show was produced by Riley and Turner Productions, the firm of Jane Turner and Gina Riley, who star as the titular characters of Kath Day-Knight, a cheery, middle-aged suburban mother, and Kim Craig, her narcissistic daughter. Additional cast members include Glenn Robbins as Kel Knight, Kath's metrosexual boyfriend (later husband); Peter Rowsthorn as Brett Craig, Kim's henpecked husband; and her lonely "second-best friend" Magda Szubanski as Sharon Strzelecki. The series is set in Fountain Lakes, a fictional suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. The series received highly positive reviews from critics, who praised the humor and cast performances, particularly of Turner and Riley. Aside from the television series which comprises four seasons, the franchise also inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Girl's Blouse
''Big Girl's Blouse'' was an Australian sketch comedy programme that was broadcast in the mid-1990s on the Seven Network, created by Gina Riley, Jane Turner and Magda Szubanski. Early versions of the trio's '' Kath & Kim'' characters, Kath, Kim and Sharon, were first featured together in several sketches based around Kim's wedding. There were four one-hour episodes, plus the pilot, which are usually shown as eight half-hour episodes. The phrase "Big Girl's Blouse" is a British English idiom An idiom is a phrase or expression that largely or exclusively carries a Literal and figurative language, figurative or non-literal meaning (linguistic), meaning, rather than making any literal sense. Categorized as formulaic speech, formulaic ... meaning "ineffectual or weak, someone failing to show masculine strength or determination." Many of the sketches from it are still available on YouTube. This was the third sketch show created by Riley, Turner and Szubanski following '' Fast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fast Forward (Australian TV Series)
''Fast Forward'' was Australia's highest-rating and most critically awarded commercial television sketch comedy show, broadcast for 90 one-hour episodes from 12 April 1989 to 26 November 1992. The show was produced by Steve Vizard, who was also the executive producer, writer, and performer, and starred Jane Turner, Gina Riley, Magda Szubanski (the three of whom went on to star in '' Kath & Kim''), Marg Downey, Michael Veitch, Peter Moon, Alan Pentland, Steve Blackburn, Geoff Brooks, Ernie Dingo, the '' Rubbery Figures'' satirical puppets, and numerous guests and supporting stars, such as Gerry Connolly and Bryan Dawe.''The Unofficial Fast Forward Guide'' ''Fast Forward'' was succeeded by the related series '' Full Frontal'', and subsequently ''Totally Full Frontal'', which were broadcast from 1993 to 1999. ''Full Frontal'' had a different main cast, but many of the ''Fast Forward'' cast guest-starred. ''Fast Forward'' was directed by Ted Emery. From its second series o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marg Downey
Marg Downey (born 5 May 1961) is an Australian comedian and actress, best known for her roles in '' The D Generation'', '' Fast Forward'' and '' Full Frontal'' Early life and education Downey grew up in a middle-class Catholic family in the Melbourne suburb of East Malvern in an eight-child family. Her father worked as a chartered accountant. She attended Sacré Cœur School (with fellow comedian Jane Turner) in Glen Iris, and then studied Arts/Law at the University of Melbourne, where she resided at Newman College. At university, she began to perform in university revues, and auditioned for performing arts courses at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, the Victorian College of the Arts and the University of Melbourne, but was not successful in gaining entry to any of them. Career Downey first rose to prominence in the sketch comedy program '' The D-Generation'' on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the late 1980s. She subsequently appeared in later sketch comedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robina Courtin
Robina Courtin (born 20 December 1944, in Melbourne, Australia) is a Buddhist nun in the Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhist Gelugpa tradition and lineage of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. In 1996 she founded the Liberation Prison Project, which she ran until 2009. Biography Courtin was raised Catholic, and in her youth was interested in becoming a Carmelite nun. In her young adulthood, she trained as a classical singer while living in London during the late 1960s. She became a feminist activist and worked on behalf of prisoners' rights in the early 1970s. In 1972 she moved back to Melbourne. Courtin began studying martial arts in 1974, living in New York City and, again, back in Melbourne. In 1976, she took a Buddhist course taught by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa in Queensland. In 1978 Courtin ordained at Tushita Meditation Centre in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, Dharamsala. She was editorial director of Wisdom Publications until 1987 and editor of ''Mandala'' until 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Barraclough
Patricia Mary Barraclough (5 September 1951 – 21 November 2023) was an Australian television producer. Biography Born on 5 September 1951, in Surrey, England, to parents Edward and Mary Barraclough (née Dennis), she moved to Australia with her family in the 1950s. She completed her education at Sacré Cœur School in Glen Iris. Barraclough became engaged in the social movements of the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the Vietnam Moratorium movement, and associated with radical figures of the time. In 1974, she married Warwick Konopacki and started her career at ABC Television's Sydney headquarters. During her career, she worked as an executive producer of radio in Brisbane and as a producer on the program ''Lateline''. Barraclough was instrumental in launching ''Australian Story'' and the ACT edition of '' Stateline''. Her work often focused on community issues, such as the Mr Fluffy asbestos crisis in Canberra. In her later years, Barraclough lived in Murrumbate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
