Silverton Primary School, VIC
Silverton Primary School DeforestACTION 2
Silverton Primary School
Silverton Primary's DeforestACTION Video!
Silverton PS & NBCS
St Michael's Primary School visit of Silverton Public school VIC and Northern Beaches Christian School Terry Hills NSW 2010
Silverton Primary School - The Effects of Ocean Dredging in the GBR Marine Park
This was a mainstage performance from Silverton Primary School at the 2014 Melbourne Water Kids Teaching Kids Conference.
THE EFFECTS OF OCEAN DREDGING IN THE GREAT BARRIER REEF MARINE PARK
Creatures of the Great Barrier Reef are being threatened by dredging of the ocean water nearby. Local students stage a protest to raise awareness and save the reef for future generations.
Lake Mungo & Broken Hill - 2014
Mungo Lake aboriginal artefacts
Living Sculpture exhibition in Broken Hill
W.T. Preston Steamboat Tour Highlights in Anacortes, WA
Welcome aboard the W.T. Preston, a sternwheel steam-powered snagboat located on the Anacortes waterfront in Washington State's Puget Sound -- and now a historic attraction of the Anacortes Museum. After 52 years of service, the Preston was retired in 1981. Now a National Historic Landmark, she made her last trip to Anacortes in 1983 and was placed on display next to the restored train depot at 7th Street and R Avenue, which is adjacent to the Anacortes Museum's Maritime Heritage Center. The W.T. Preston is a very special artifact designed for a specific job, reflecting 150 years of local learning and development. She is the last of a long line of snagboats working the length and breadth of the Puget Sound. She was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and made a National Historic Landmark in 1989. Join your guide Dennis Mazza of the Anacortes Musuem for highlights of a fun and educational tour of the W.T. Preston. We encourage you to come aboard on your next visit to Anacortes, WA.
Reber-Thomas Dining Hall
The Food Court at Reber-Thomas Dining Hall provides only the best in a diverse array of food options for students at Liberty University. Our award winning dining hall won Best Dining Hall in the U.S. for 2015 and 2016, voted on by BestColleges.com! To check out more on why we were voted the best, visit our website at: LibertyDining.com
Microsoft Train Simulator Add-on NSWGR CPH RAILMOTOR (TIN HARE!)
An Australian Microsoft Train Simulator Add-on of the NSWGR 42 CPH Rail motor or a Tin Hare the train that started it all
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Tornado Throws a Man 1300ft and He Lives!
We're definitely not in Kansas anymore. Discovery takes you beneath the skin using state of the art CGI to unravel the mysteries of the human body.
Architecture -- Career
Architects design the spaces in which we live, work, and play. Though not a classical STEM field, the field of architecture encompasses all aspects of STEM --science, technology, engineering and math, with a nice dose of art and design thrown in. The demand for architects is on the rise, and there has never been a more exciting time to enter the field. Emerging subfields in sustainability and green building place architects in a unique position to help minimize our impact on the environment.
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Water Wise at Adelaide Zoo by Prospect Primary School
This video was made by a year 6/7 class at Prospect Primary School, as part of the Conservation Ark Zootube Competition. Go to conservationark.org.au to find out more and to vote for your favourite!
DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this video do not necessarily reflect the views of Conservation Ark.
Fremont Pass North of Leadville Colorado
A beautiful early December (2015) drive around Stork Curve en route to Fremont Pass by The Climax Mine, north of Leadville, Colorado. #ThisIsWhereILive in Leadville Today.
St Lucia
The University of Queensland (UQ) was established on 10 December 1909 by the Queensland Parliament to mark the 50th anniversary of Queensland's independence from New South Wales. The University's first classes in the Government house were held in 1911 with 83 commencing students and Sir William MacGregor is the first chancellor (with Reginald Heber Roe as vice-chancellor). The development of the University was delayed by World War I, but after the first world war the university enrollments for education and research took flight as demand for higher education increased in Australia. Thus, in the early 1920s the growing University had to look for a more spacious campus as its original site at George Street, Brisbane has limited room for expansion.
In 1927, Dr James O'Neil Mayne and his sister Mary Emelia Mayne, provided a grant of approximately £50,000 to the Brisbane City Council to acquire 274 acres (111 ha) of land at St Lucia and provided it to the University of Queensland as its permanent home. In the same year, the pitch drop experiment was started by Professor Thomas Parnell. The experiment has been described as the world's oldest and continues to this day.
P.S.
The pitch drop experiment is a long-term experiment that measures the flow of a piece of pitch over many years. Pitch is the name for any of a number of highly viscous liquids that appear solid, most commonly bitumen. At room temperature, tar pitch flows at a very low rate, taking several years to form a single drop.
Lack of finance delayed development of the St Lucia campus. Hence, the construction of the University's first building in St Lucia only began in 1938. It was later named the Forgan Smith Building, after the Premier of the day and it was completed in 1939. During World War II, the Forgan Smith Building was used as a military base and it served first as advanced headquarters for the Allied Land Forces in the South West Pacific.
Stonemasons John Theodore Muller and Frederick James McGowan began work on the carvings in 1939, but progress stalled in 1942 due to World War Two. McGowan died before the carving program resumed in 1945, and Muller worked on the project alone until his death in 1953.
The program was revived when work began on the Michie Building in 1972. Rhyl Hinwood won the commission over several other Queensland sculptors, and began work in 1976, completing many grotesques, coats of arms and figures. To this day, the carvings remain a work in progress.
Coats of arms, arches and roundels
The columns that support the cloister around the Great Court are adorned with coats of arms representing the tertiary institutions of the British Commonwealth, other significant international universities, and the UQ residential colleges. The external walls of the cloister feature archways and roundels that depict native Queensland flora and fauna and exotic and agriculturally significant species.
James O'Neil Mayne and Mary Emelia Mayne
The James and Mary Emelia Mayne Centre is named after two key benefactors to The University of Queensland: James O’Neil Mayne (1861–1939) and his sister Mary Emelia Mayne (1858–1940).
Dr James Mayne, who was a medical superintendent of the Brisbane General Hospital (now Royal Brisbane Hospital) from 1898 to 1903, was a long-time supporter of the University. In 1923, James and his sister donated land at Pinjarra Hills, formerly the University’s Veterinary School Farm, and in 1927 they paid £63,000 to resume riverside land at St Lucia for the University. In 1939, as the sandstone-clad buildings were taking shape at St Lucia, James Mayne died. Upon Mary Emelia Mayne's death in 1940, their Estate went to benefit the University Medical School, their names perpetuated in the naming of the Mayne Medical School.
The Mayne Estate bequeathed a significant number of artworks to the University’s Collection, including works by Thomas Balcombe, Walter Isaac Jenner, Melville Haysom, Marian Ellis Rowan and Romain Steppe, among others. Artworks depicting the family home of ‘Moorlands’ by John Campbell and Robert Rayment were included in this bequest.
Paintings portraying James Mayne by Melville Haysom and Mary Emelia Mayne by Charles Gosford are on display in the UQ Art Museum. Melville Haysom’s 1936 portrait depicts James Mayne holding a map of the St Lucia site
Johannesburg | Wikipedia audio article
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Johannesburg (; Afrikaans: [jʊəˈɦanəsbœrχ]; also known as Jozi, Joburg, and eGoli) is the largest city in South Africa and one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world. It is the provincial capital and largest city of Gauteng, which is the wealthiest province in South Africa. While Johannesburg is not one of South Africa's three capital cities, it is the seat of the Constitutional Court. The city is located in the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range of hills and is the centre of large-scale gold and diamond trade.The metropolis is an alpha global city as listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. In 2011, the population of the city of Johannesburg was 4,434,827, making it the most populous city in South Africa. In the same year, the population of Johannesburg's urban agglomeration was put at 7,860,781. The land area of the municipal city (1,645 km2 (635 sq mi)) is large in comparison with those of other major cities, resulting in a moderate population density of 2,364/km2 (6,120/sq mi).
The city was established in 1886 following the discovery of gold on what had been a farm. The city is commonly interpreted as the modern day El Dorado due to the extremely large gold deposit found along the Witwatersrand. The name is attributed to one or all of three men involved in the establishment of the city. In ten years, the population grew to 100,000 inhabitants.
A separate city from the late 1970s until 1994, Soweto is now part of Johannesburg. Originally an acronym for South-Western Townships, Soweto originated as a collection of settlements on the outskirts of Johannesburg, populated mostly by native African workers from the gold mining industry. Soweto, although eventually incorporated into Johannesburg, had been separated as a residential area for Blacks, who were not permitted to live in Johannesburg proper. Lenasia is predominantly populated by English-speaking South Africans of Indian descent. These areas were designated as non-white areas in accordance with the segregationist policies of the South African government known as Apartheid.
Durham University | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:41 1 History
00:02:50 1.1 Origins
00:03:50 1.2 The church university, 1832–1909
00:09:13 1.3 The federal university, 1909–1963
00:11:55 1.4 The modern university, 1963–1999
00:13:28 1.4.1 Development in Stockton, 1992–1999
00:14:53 1.5 21st century
00:18:25 2 Campus
00:19:33 2.1 Durham City
00:20:45 2.1.1 Mountjoy
00:21:24 2.1.2 Elvet Hill
00:22:21 2.1.3 Mount Oswald
00:23:30 2.1.4 Development plans
00:24:52 2.1.5 Ushaw College
00:25:38 2.2 Queen's Campus
00:27:21 2.3 Libraries
00:29:59 2.4 Museums
00:31:20 3 Organisation and administration
00:31:30 3.1 Academic year
00:32:37 3.2 Colleges
00:34:24 3.3 Governance
00:38:11 3.4 Schools and faculties
00:39:14 4 Academic profile
00:39:23 4.1 Admissions
00:41:46 4.2 Widening access
00:45:04 4.3 Research
00:47:02 4.3.1 Centre for Iranian Studies
00:47:40 4.4 Rankings and reputation
00:56:58 5 Student life
00:57:06 5.1 Residential life
00:59:05 5.2 Student organisations
00:59:42 5.3 Civic engagement
01:00:53 5.4 Town and gown relations
01:01:13 5.5 Student media
01:02:07 5.6 Sport
01:05:14 5.7 Music and drama
01:07:41 6 Notable alumni
01:13:41 7 See also
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Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837. It was the first recognised university to open in England for more than 600 years, after Oxford and Cambridge, and is thus one of the institutions to be described as the third-oldest university in England. As a collegiate university its main functions are divided between the academic departments of the university and its 16 colleges. In general, the departments perform research and provide teaching to students, while the colleges are responsible for their domestic arrangements and welfare.
The university is a member of the Russell Group of British research universities after previously being a member of the 1994 Group. Durham is also affiliated with the regional N8 Research Partnership and international university groups including the Matariki Network of Universities and the Coimbra Group. The university estate includes 63 listed buildings, ranging from the 11th-century Durham Castle to a 1930s Art Deco chapel. The university also owns and manages the Durham World Heritage Site in partnership with Durham Cathedral. The university's ownership of the World Heritage Site includes Durham Castle, Palace Green, and the surrounding buildings including the historic Cosin's Library.Among British universities, it had the eighth highest average UCAS Tariff for new entrants in 2016 and the third lowest proportion of state-school educated students starting courses in 2016, at 62.9 per cent (fifth lowest compared to its benchmark). The university is currently ranked 5th to 7th by recent national league tables of the British universities, 74th to 114th in three of the four major global tables and in the 201–300 range in the fourth (see below). It was Sunday Times University of the Year for 2005, and the Times and Sunday Times Sports University of the Year for 2015, and was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2018.The chancellor of the university is Sir Thomas Allen, who succeeded Bill Bryson in 2012. Current and emeritus academics include 14 Fellows of the Royal Society, 17 Fellows of the British Academy, 14 Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences, 5 Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2 Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts and 2 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Durham graduates have long used the Latin post-nominal letters Dunelm after their degree, from Dunelmensis (of, belonging to, or from Durham).