Menindee Lakes: hundreds of thousands of fish dead in Murray-Darling basin
Dead fish on a river bank in the NSW far west region of Menindee, filmed on 8 January 2019. Ongoing dry conditions and a recent drop in temperature could be the cause of a mass kill of fish in the Lower Darling region. Investigations are under way at the NSW Department of Primary Industries and WaterNSW. Golden perch, Murray cod and bony herring are among the native species affected in the Namoi River near Gunnedah, the Lachlan River at Wyangala Dam and the Darling River
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Montana | Wikipedia audio article
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Montana
00:01:28 1 Etymology and naming history
00:02:51 2 Geography
00:03:37 2.1 Topography
00:08:38 2.1.1 Rivers, lakes and reservoirs
00:09:25 2.1.1.1 Pacific Ocean drainage basin
00:10:22 2.1.1.2 Gulf of Mexico drainage basin
00:12:23 2.1.1.3 Hudson Bay drainage basin
00:12:46 2.1.1.4 Lakes and reservoirs
00:13:38 2.2 Flora and fauna
00:15:21 2.3 Protected lands
00:18:14 2.4 Climate
00:24:11 2.5 Antipodes
00:24:37 3 History
00:27:23 3.1 Montana territory
00:28:48 3.2 Conflicts
00:31:16 3.3 Cattle ranching
00:32:10 3.4 Railroads
00:33:48 3.5 Statehood
00:35:03 3.6 Homesteading
00:39:40 3.7 Montana and World War I
00:44:11 3.8 Depression era
00:44:41 3.9 Montana and World War II
00:46:42 3.10 Other military
00:47:38 3.11 Cold War Montana
00:48:57 4 Demographics
00:51:17 4.1 Intrastate demographics
00:55:11 4.2 Language
00:57:09 4.3 Religion
00:58:05 4.4 Native Americans
01:01:07 4.5 Birth data
01:01:34 5 Economy
01:03:33 6 Education
01:03:42 6.1 Colleges and universities
01:03:51 6.2 Schools
01:06:10 7 Culture
01:07:55 7.1 Major cultural events
01:09:27 7.2 Sports
01:09:35 7.2.1 Professional sports
01:10:08 7.2.2 College sports
01:10:42 7.2.3 Other sports
01:11:17 7.2.4 Olympic competitors
01:12:31 7.2.5 Sporting achievements
01:13:22 7.3 Outdoor recreation
01:13:46 7.3.1 Fishing and hunting
01:15:18 7.3.2 Winter sports
01:17:37 8 Health
01:18:08 9 Media
01:19:16 10 Transportation
01:21:33 11 Law and government
01:21:43 11.1 Constitution
01:25:31 11.2 State government: Executive
01:27:43 11.3 State government: Legislative
01:28:33 11.4 State government: Judicial
01:33:51 11.5 Federal offices and courts
01:37:26 12 Politics
01:41:07 13 Cities and towns
01:42:50 14 State symbols
01:46:23 15 See also
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Montana ( (listen)) is a state in the Northwestern United States. Montana has several nicknames, although none are official, including Big Sky Country and The Treasure State, and slogans that include Land of the Shining Mountains and more recently The Last Best Place.Montana is the 4th largest in area, the 8th least populous, and the 3rd least densely populated of the 50 U.S. states. The western half of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller island ranges are found throughout the state. In total, 77 named ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains. The eastern half of Montana is characterized by western prairie terrain and badlands. Montana is bordered by Idaho to the west, Wyoming to the south, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan to the north.
The economy is primarily based on agriculture, including ranching and cereal grain farming. Other significant economic resources include oil, gas, coal, hard rock mining, and lumber. The health care, service, and government sectors also are significant to the state's economy.
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A TEENAGE girl born without limbs lives her life in a plastic bowl. Rahma Haruna is a bright, happy girl, despite suffering from a mystery condition that stopped her arms and legs developing properly - leaving her practically limbless and in constant pain. The 19-year-old, from Kano, Nigeria, was born a healthy baby but when she turned six months old her growth came to a sudden halt and she stopped hitting key development milestones. Rahma’s family do their best to provide her with a fulfilling life and transport her around the village in a plastic bowl. Doctors have been baffled by Rahma’s condition and some have even put it down to the teenager being struck down by jinns - a supernatural being in Islam mythology.
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Mendon Massachusetts (MA) Real Estate Tour
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Mendon, Massachusetts is historically a rural, agrarian community located in the Blackstone Valley. Mendon is the second oldest town in Worcester County, and the community has one of the best preserved Federal/Greek Revival hilltop village centers in the state, adjacent to large tracts of open space.
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Every time you hear a bell ring an ANGEL gets its wings. Quote from my favourite movie Its a Wonderful Life. The Angels/Eagle wings is actually the torture technique used by false christians. it is BARCLAYS icon out of LOMBARD St and the LOMBARDS helped with another SACK of Rome. So Barclays started in LOMBARD ST and the Spread Eagle is by then a financial services label & we had a Spread Eagle & Cross Keys both religious jokes in my town in the 1960s when I was an altar. The Saltire St Andrews Flag is a joke about Christians pilgriming all over Europe out of Scandinavia & into the e Aegean Danube delta and the other branch of the Saltire is the Amber Way from the Death camp Baltic polish coast Moravia/Hambro Bank launch down into Catalonia France & Spain. So the Barclay & many other banks moved to the London Docklands. Now massive Babylonian towers and only Canary Wharf 1 CANADA SQUARE is build on DRYLAND. The Hammer & Sickle on the Austrian EAGLE flags are an extension of the same master race jokes and the sidelining of GODS like THOR from the Christian churches with all the other heavenle deities. My wifes childless family have massive homes on Docklands, Chipping Norton & in Cameron's Whitney Duns Tew worth 1.5 Million in real estate alone. So Piers Morgan is launched as cover for Edward I Lonshanks' poofy boyfriend called Piers (the St Peter frauds again). So I show the glitch of the world owning bloodline that occurs when you look at the Longshanks kids Edward II bloodline continues through the French connection right down to Charlemagne. The Bloodlines that take you into FDR and the Bush mass murderers are through Longshanks daughters married to the Galloways of Carlise/Cumbria. When you look for those historic ties all the lineage were born up to 500 years too early. So the Dark Ages and the Sack of Rome part ii. So the Lombards sack Rome too but first the HUNS and the German Rabbits in WW2 in Operation Winnie the Pooh and all Ian fleming's treason in WW2 when Barclays could not relocate for DOUBLE AGENTS' treason. So the HUNS Honey issues take one into 100Acre woods see below. Bugs Bunny is an extension of those Rabbit jokes cos it is a river in the VISTULA basin right next to the POLISH death camps and the rivers empty into the Baltic at Lech walensa's Gdansk. So I now follow through on my pledge to profile the Rothscild BODY Corporate and we show Annabelle Neilsins lovely little breasts and erect nipples. Those photos are not published in Burkes peerage where it declares that Annabelle was married to young Natty Rothschild for just 2 years before divorce. Her settlement makes her a billionaire and she is a much saught after CELEB in Londons' corrupted & sleazy nightlife. BUT I am delighted that it is not Connie Neilson the Deivl's and Emperor's daughter in those Rothschild sponsored blockbusters the Gladiator and Devils Advocate/ Fifth Element directed by Luc Besson! One has no idea how much it costs to play with those nipples buttocks or the PISO bits that are Annabelles likely fascist black PIE. So back to the Federated States Sacking the Romans at least in the centre of the East Constantinople & West Frankis Catalonian branches. I forgot to point out that the financial hubs for the banks in London were riddled with RATS like Grimms Hamelin. That brings us to Poland and the Wiesels, read on. Young Nathan is a genuinely nice guy and he knows the power of the truth in revealing my disclosures. So to the Polish death camps and the border with Russia & BUGS Bunny next to the Bug River a tributary of the Vistula which runs into the Baltic in Gdansk. It is the Bugs BOGS cos God pisses down on it as they disappear from the JESUS THEOLOGY Fraud. That kills millions of jews and the population of Krajenka where Wiesel the Holocaust survivor became a NOBEL prize winner in 1939 its population of simple Jews dropped from 3000 to 150 and the escapees become millionares & bankers in France then the US where they are on the Terror committees for the WARNERS news that is the Commitee for Present Danger and the Clinton Foundations GLOBAL Warming scams later. Wiesels advisor is a Wilsig and they are a massive banking presence for MOTIVES that the WW Warners/WARREN anagram understand & that is FOX news for Murdoch Today. Gervaise in the museum movie is now a joke we both understand. The Spread Eagle torture by the christians is explained again by POWERPOINT. The prisoners ribs were split open on the torture table and the lungs pulled out the back as the victim slowly suffocates. I show alleric the visigoth and his portrait in the Frankfurt art gallery. Algy Cluff is in the next video. The Gladiators corpses become the nutrition for the Coliseum spectators. They taught the barbarians TOTAL WAR Childerich is a town in Essex associated with GERVASE of Tillbury. The Hun Hunny Hitlers Bunny Jokes are clear now?
GREAT EXPECTATIONS [1867 Edition] by Charles Dickens [Stage 3]
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This classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice and then learns that he has great expectations of a future inheritance from an anonymous benefactor. He soon learns to live the profligate life of a gentleman as he gradually sheds his associations with the gentle souls of his past, Joe (the blacksmith) and Biddy (a level-headed young lady). He throws his money at improving the prospects of his roommate and friend Herbert and his heart at an ice princess whose heart will never respond. But then an escaped convict from his distant past comes calling, and all Pip's hopes dissolve.
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Alfred Russel Wallace | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:37 1 Biography
00:03:46 1.1 Early life
00:08:37 1.2 Exploration and study of the natural world
00:14:13 1.3 Return to England, marriage and children
00:16:15 1.4 Financial struggles
00:17:59 1.5 Social activism
00:22:42 1.6 Further scientific work
00:24:10 1.7 Death
00:25:29 2 Theory of evolution
00:25:39 2.1 Early evolutionary thinking
00:31:03 2.2 Natural selection and Darwin
00:38:55 2.2.1 Defence of Darwin and his ideas
00:40:16 2.2.2 Differences between Darwin's and Wallace's ideas on natural selection
00:42:33 2.2.3 Warning coloration and sexual selection
00:44:59 2.2.4 Wallace effect
00:46:35 2.3 Application of theory to humans, and role of teleology in evolution
00:50:43 2.4 Assessment of Wallace's role in history of evolutionary theory
00:53:52 3 Other scientific contributions
00:54:03 3.1 Biogeography and ecology
00:58:58 3.2 Environmental issues
01:02:38 3.3 Astrobiology
01:04:35 4 Other contributions
01:04:44 4.1 Poetry
01:06:56 5 Controversies
01:07:05 5.1 Spiritualism
01:15:09 5.2 Flat Earth wager
01:16:36 5.3 Anti-vaccination campaign
01:19:20 6 Legacy and historical perception
01:22:44 7 Awards, honours, and memorials
01:24:35 8 Writings by Wallace
01:25:38 8.1 Selected books
01:27:19 8.2 Selected papers
01:29:59 9 Bird specimens collected by Wallace
01:30:10 10 See also
01:30:29 11 Further reading
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Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858. This prompted Darwin to publish his own ideas in On the Origin of Species. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the faunal divide now termed the Wallace Line, which separates the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts: a western portion in which the animals are largely of Asian origin, and an eastern portion where the fauna reflect Australasia.
He was considered the 19th century's leading expert on the geographical distribution of animal species and is sometimes called the father of biogeography. Wallace was one of the leading evolutionary thinkers of the 19th century and made many other contributions to the development of evolutionary theory besides being co-discoverer of natural selection. These included the concept of warning colouration in animals, and the Wallace effect, a hypothesis on how natural selection could contribute to speciation by encouraging the development of barriers against hybridisation. Wallace's 1904 book Man's Place in the Universe was the first serious attempt by a biologist to evaluate the likelihood of life on other planets. He was also one of the first scientists to write a serious exploration of the subject of whether there was life on Mars.Wallace was strongly attracted to unconventional ideas (such as evolution). His advocacy of spiritualism and his belief in a non-material origin for the higher mental faculties of humans strained his relationship with some members of the scientific establishment.
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Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland. He was king of Scotland from 1649 until his deposition in 1651, and king of England, Scotland and Ireland from the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 until his death.
Charles II's father, Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War. Although the Parliament of Scotland proclaimed Charles II king on 5 February 1649, England entered the period known as the English Interregnum or the English Commonwealth, and the country was a de facto republic, led by Oliver Cromwell. Cromwell defeated Charles II at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651, and Charles fled to mainland Europe. Cromwell became virtual dictator of England, Scotland and Ireland. Charles spent the next nine years in exile in France, the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands. A political crisis that followed the death of Cromwell in 1658 resulted in the restoration of the monarchy, and Charles was invited to return to Britain. On 29 May 1660, his 30th birthday, he was received in London to public acclaim. After 1660, all legal documents were dated as if he had succeeded his father as king in 1649.
Charles's English parliament enacted laws known as the Clarendon Code, designed to shore up the position of the re-established Church of England. Charles acquiesced to the Clarendon Code even though he favoured a policy of religious tolerance. The major foreign policy issue of his early reign was the Second Anglo-Dutch War. In 1670, he entered into the Treaty of Dover, an alliance with his first cousin King Louis XIV of France. Louis agreed to aid him in the Third Anglo-Dutch War and pay him a pension, and Charles secretly promised to convert to Catholicism at an unspecified future date. Charles attempted to introduce religious freedom for Catholics and Protestant dissenters with his 1672 Royal Declaration of Indulgence, but the English Parliament forced him to withdraw it. In 1679, Titus Oates's revelations of a supposed Popish Plot sparked the Exclusion Crisis when it was revealed that Charles's brother and heir (James, Duke of York) was a Catholic. The crisis saw the birth of the pro-exclusion Whig and anti-exclusion Tory parties. Charles sided with the Tories, and, following the discovery of the Rye House Plot to murder Charles and James in 1683, some Whig leaders were executed or forced into exile. Charles dissolved the English Parliament in 1681, and ruled alone until his death on 6 February 1685. He was received into the Catholic Church on his deathbed.
Charles was one of the most popular and beloved kings of England, known as the Merry Monarch, in reference to both the liveliness and hedonism of his court and the general relief at the return to normality after over a decade of rule by Cromwell and the Puritans. Charles's wife, Catherine of Braganza, bore no live children, but Charles acknowledged at least twelve illegitimate children by various mistresses. He was succeeded by his brother James.