Was a good vid HB 
So much OH&S...not
Your question sir
So much OH&S...not Your question sir
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Who is in the pram in that video ?
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Hi Pr2cv , answer was from this video, Starts to talk about coal at 4min 50sec
[video=480,360]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6GkTizYFHA[/video]
Also question & answer should have been "Greater City Area"
[video=480,360]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6GkTizYFHA[/video]
Also question & answer should have been "Greater City Area"
I STILL say. in 1945 in the confines of the city boundary there 5 working mines. There were probably 40 odd if these 5 were included with all the mines in the Lake Macquarie Shire.The mine @ around 5 minutes was at Redhead in lake mac shire and a few klms away was John Darling.
A great video however,brings back some memories,---it's not the city it once was. all those trades that are now no longer as well as the steel works.
Pete
A great video however,brings back some memories,---it's not the city it once was. all those trades that are now no longer as well as the steel works.
Pete
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RR did say controversial
headbut17 said:RR did say controversial
Yes I did. There would be several answers I reckon.
My question, therefore the answer came from the video.
May not be 100% correct. We have found multiple answers to several questions.
RR
Just because you disagree with the answer doesn't make you right Pete.
You must answer a question before you ask one.
HB has a pending question...
Who is in the pram in the video?
You must answer a question before you ask one.
HB has a pending question...
Who is in the pram in the video?
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Yes , just read below video & the answer is there
Iglootwentysevewn?
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Yes RR , well done. How would that have been for that guy, when his son found the video & saw his parents pushing him in a pram
Amazing find
What is Reginald Sprigg known for?
What is Reginald Sprigg known for?
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A mineral, Spriggite, Pb3[(UO2)6O8(OH)2].3(H2O), has been named in his honour
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During 1968, Sprigg purchased the pastoral lease of Arkaroola, a property and important uranium exploration field of 610 square kilometres in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, and converted it into a wildlife refuge and tourist attraction. A governing board of Reg Sprigg, his wife Griselda and Dennis Walter, a mineralogist and old friend, oversaw the creation of Arkaroola Village out of existing buildings and the opening to tourists during October 1968
During 1968, Sprigg purchased the pastoral lease of Arkaroola, a property and important uranium exploration field of 610 square kilometres in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, and converted it into a wildlife refuge and tourist attraction. A governing board of Reg Sprigg, his wife Griselda and Dennis Walter, a mineralogist and old friend, oversaw the creation of Arkaroola Village out of existing buildings and the opening to tourists during October 1968
You come up with the most interesting facts HB.
Not what I had.
Earlier than 68. 1940s.
Not what I had.
Earlier than 68. 1940s.
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At age 17 he became the youngest Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia. During 1946, in the Ediacara Hills, South Australia he discovered the Ediacara biota, an assemblage of some of the most ancient animal fossils known. He was involved with oceanographic research and petroleum exploration by various companies which he initiated
At age 17 he became the youngest Fellow of the Royal Society of South Australia. During 1946, in the Ediacara Hills, South Australia he discovered the Ediacara biota, an assemblage of some of the most ancient animal fossils known. He was involved with oceanographic research and petroleum exploration by various companies which he initiated
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Sprigg attracted the attention of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) during 1950, due to Sprigg's knowledge of uranium deposits in Australia and throughout the world. During 1943 Sprigg had been secretary of the Australian Association of Scientific Workers. The Association was concerned with the transfer of scientific workers from wartime to peacetime projects once hostilities ceased, and encouraged debate on the social responsibility of science. ASIO suspected the organization of communist ties, and as a result Sprigg was surveilled for some ten years
Sprigg attracted the attention of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) during 1950, due to Sprigg's knowledge of uranium deposits in Australia and throughout the world. During 1943 Sprigg had been secretary of the Australian Association of Scientific Workers. The Association was concerned with the transfer of scientific workers from wartime to peacetime projects once hostilities ceased, and encouraged debate on the social responsibility of science. ASIO suspected the organization of communist ties, and as a result Sprigg was surveilled for some ten years
Nailed it HB. Australia is truly an amazing place.
In 1946 Sprigg, then a young government geologist, was poking around in the blisteringly inhospitable Ediacaran hills of the Flinders Ranges, some three hundred miles north of Adelaide, when he made one of those miraculous discoveries in which Australian natural history almost impossibly abounds. You will recall from an earlier chapter the case of the strange and long-lostproto-ant Nothomyrmecia macrops found unexpectedly at a dusty hamlet in the middle of nowhere. Well, Spriggs find was in much the same general area and, in its way, no less remarkable. His special moment came when he clambered a few yards up a rocky slope to find a piece of shade and a comfortable rock to lean against to have his lunch. As he sat eating his sandwiches he idly stretched out a toe and turned over a hunk of sandstone. Sprigg left no informal account of the event, but I think we can safely imagine him pausing in his chewingpausing for a long moment, mouth slightly opento stare at what he had just turned over, then slowly creeping nearer to have a closer look. What he had just found, you see, was something that wasnt thought to exist. For almost a century, since the time of Charles Darwin, scientists had been puzzled by an evolutionary anomalythat 600 million years ago complex life-forms of an improbable variety had suddenly burst forth on earth (the famous Cambrian explosion), but without any evidence of earlier, simpler forms that might have paved the way for such an event. Sprigg had just found that missing link, a piece of rock swimming in delicate pre-Cambrian fossils. He was looking, in effect, at the dawn of visible lifeat something no one had ever seen before or ever expected to see.
In 1946 Sprigg, then a young government geologist, was poking around in the blisteringly inhospitable Ediacaran hills of the Flinders Ranges, some three hundred miles north of Adelaide, when he made one of those miraculous discoveries in which Australian natural history almost impossibly abounds. You will recall from an earlier chapter the case of the strange and long-lostproto-ant Nothomyrmecia macrops found unexpectedly at a dusty hamlet in the middle of nowhere. Well, Spriggs find was in much the same general area and, in its way, no less remarkable. His special moment came when he clambered a few yards up a rocky slope to find a piece of shade and a comfortable rock to lean against to have his lunch. As he sat eating his sandwiches he idly stretched out a toe and turned over a hunk of sandstone. Sprigg left no informal account of the event, but I think we can safely imagine him pausing in his chewingpausing for a long moment, mouth slightly opento stare at what he had just turned over, then slowly creeping nearer to have a closer look. What he had just found, you see, was something that wasnt thought to exist. For almost a century, since the time of Charles Darwin, scientists had been puzzled by an evolutionary anomalythat 600 million years ago complex life-forms of an improbable variety had suddenly burst forth on earth (the famous Cambrian explosion), but without any evidence of earlier, simpler forms that might have paved the way for such an event. Sprigg had just found that missing link, a piece of rock swimming in delicate pre-Cambrian fossils. He was looking, in effect, at the dawn of visible lifeat something no one had ever seen before or ever expected to see.
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Which river in NSW starts at 936 metres & ends at 262 metres & is 165 km long ?
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