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Kilwinning
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Kilwinning is a town in North Ayrshire, Scotland. It is on the River Garnock, north of Irvine, about 21 miles south of Glasgow and it is known as The Crossroads of Ayrshire. Kilwinning was also a Civil Parish, the 2001 Census recorded the town as having a population of 15,908. The Celtic Christians or Culdees of the period of St Columba and St Mungo found here, in part of Scotland. Kilmarnock, Kilbride, Kilbirnie, are all, like Kilwinning, in the distant past, the town was called Sagtoun, or Saint’s Town, after St. Winning, the founder of an early seventh century church on this site. However, the identity of St. Winning is unclear. Some scholars have associated him with the Irish saint known as St Finnian of Moville, others believe he was a Welshman by the name of Vynnyn, and the Aberdeen Breviary of 1507 asserts that he was from Scotland. The work of Professor Owen Clancy of the University of Glasgow in 2001 makes another identification possible, Clancy argued that, in fact, Saint Ninian and Saint Finnian were the same person, the difference being attributed to an error on the part of a medieval scribe. The original town was situated at the Bridgend and Corsehill while the bank of the river was the site of the abbey, its outbuildings, orchards, doocot. The Kilwinning Community Archaeology Project carried out a dig in Kilwinning Abbey in 2010, Kilwinning is notable for housing the original Lodge of Freemasonry in Scotland. When the Lodges were renumbered, Kilwinning was kept as Lodge Number 0, the lodges own legend attributes the formation to the building of the Abbey at Kilwinning in the 12th Century. There existed in this period corporations or fraternities of masons, endowed with privileges and immunities. The Lodge is reputed to have held in the Chapter House on the Eastern side of the cloisters. On the broken walls and moldering arches of the Abbey numerous and varied Masons marks may be seen, Kilwinning is located on the banks of the River Garnock in Ayrshire, west/central Scotland. Kilwinnings neighbours are the towns of Stevenston to the west. In 1966, Kilwinning fell within the area designated Irvine New Town, Kilwinning rapidly expanded with new estates built on surrounding farm land to meet the planned increase in population. Many of the new inhabitants were a direct result of Glasgow Overflow relocation. A popular local nickname for Kilwinning is Kilwinkie, the Main Street of Kilwinning has recently been refurbished as part of the regeneration of the Irvine Bay area by Irvine Bay Regeneration Company
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Ayrshire
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Ayrshire is a historic county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. It is also, under the name the County of Ayr and its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine. Like the other counties of Scotland, it currently has no function, instead being sub-divided into the council areas of North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire. It has a population of approximately 366,800, the three islands were part of the County of Bute until 1975 and are not always included when the term Ayrshire is applied to the region. The same area is known as Ayrshire and Arran in other contexts, Ayrshire is one of the most agriculturally fertile regions of Scotland. Ayrshire shares with Dumfries and Galloway some rugged hills country known as the Galloway Hills and these hill lie to the west of the A713 and they run south from the Loch Doon area almost to the Solway Firth. To the east of this route through the hills lie the Carsphairn and Scaur Hills which lie to the south east of Dalmellington, glen Afton runs deep into these hills. Glasgow Prestwick International Airport, serving Glasgow and the West of Scotland more generally, is located more than 30 miles away from Glasgow in Ayrshire. Moreover it has a niche in history as the only place in Britain visited by Elvis Presley. The area that today forms Ayrshire was part of the south of the Antonine Wall which was briefly occupied by the Romans during the reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius. It was inhabited by the Damnonii, who are presumed to have been Britons, later, it formed part of the British Kingdom of Strathclyde, which was incorporated into the Kingdom of Scotland during the 11th century. In 1263, the Scots successfully drove off of the Norwegian leidang-army in a known as the Battle of Largs. A notable historic building in Ayrshire is Turnberry Castle, which dates from the 13th century or earlier, the historic shire or sheriffdom of Ayr was divided into three districts or bailieries which later made up the county of Ayrshire. The three districts were, Carrick in the south and it was situated between the Doon and the wild district of Galloway in the adjoining Stewartries, an area that was little else than a vast tract of hills and mosses. Cunninghame in the north included the royal burgh of Irvine was that part of the county which lay north of the Irvine water. The area used to be heavily industrialised, with making, coal mining and in Kilmarnock numerous examples of production-line manufacturing. In more recent history, Digital Equipment had a manufacturing plant near Ayr from about 1976 until the company was taken over by Compaq in 1998. Some supplier companies grew up to service this site and the more distant IBM plant at Greenock in Renfrewshire, however, unemployment in the region is above the national average
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Judy Davis
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Judith Judy Davis is an Australian actress. With a career spanning over 30 years she is commended for her versatility and is regarded as one of the finest actresses of her generation. She is the recipient of eight AACTA Awards, two BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Emmy Awards and has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, as a student at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Davis played opposite Mel Gibson in Romeo and Juliet. Her other stage credits include Piaf, Insignificance, the role in Hedda Gabler. Davis was born in Perth, Western Australia, and had a strict Catholic upbringing and she was educated at Loreto Convent and the Western Australian Institute of Technology and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1977. She has been married to actor and fellow NIDA graduate Colin Friels since 1984 and they have two children, son Jack and daughter Charlotte. The relationship was briefly in the media when an argument led to an order against Friels – however. They live in the Sydney area of Birchgrove, New South Wales, Davis first came to prominence for her role as Sybylla Melvyn in the coming-of-age saga My Brilliant Career, for which she won BAFTA Awards for Best Actress and Best Newcomer. Davis also played the lead in the Australian New Wave classics Winter of Our Dreams and Heatwave. In 1984, she was cast as Adela Quested in David Leans final film A Passage to India and she earned Australian Film Institute Awards for both roles, and a National Society of Film Critics award for Hightides brief American theatrical run. In 1990, she played a cameo in Woody Allens Alice, in 1991, she was featured in Joel Coens Barton Fink, which won the Palme dOr at the Cannes Film Festival and in David Cronenbergs adaptation of the hallucinogenic novel Naked Lunch. She won an Independent Spirit Award for her work as mannish woman author George Sand in Impromptu and she portrayed real-life Second World War heroine Mary Lindell in the CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation One Against the Wind. In 1992, she played a role in Woody Allens Husbands. For this performance she earned both Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress and she co-starred with Kevin Spacey in the 1994 comedy film The Ref, portraying a married couple whose relationship is on the rocks, with Denis Leary playing a thief who counsels their marriage. Much of her recent work has been on television, where she has a collection of Emmy Award nominations and she earned a second Emmy for her portrayal of Judy Garland in the 2001 television biographical film Life with Judy Garland, Me and My Shadows. In July 2006, she received her ninth Emmy nomination for her performance in the television film A Little Thing Called Murder and her tenth nomination came in 2007 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in the U. S. miniseries The Starter Wife for which she was awarded the Emmy. In August 2007, she appeared opposite Sam Waterston in an episode of ABCs anthology series Masters of Science Fiction and she appeared on the TV mini-series, Diamonds from 2008–2009. In 2011, Davis appeared in a drama film, Page Eight
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Kilbirnie
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Kilbirnie is a small town of 7642 inhabitants situated in the Garnock Valley area of North Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland. It is around 20 miles south-west of Glasgow and approximately 10 miles from Paisley, historically, the town built up around the flax and weaving industries before iron and steelmaking took over in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The suburb of Kilbirnie in the New Zealand capital of Wellington is named after the town, archaeological digs conducted in the 19th century have shown that the area was inhabited during the Bronze Age. A crannog with a causeway was discovered in Kilbirnie Loch. The town derived its name from the church, the Auld Kirk. In 1740 there were three houses, the population grew to 959 people by 1801. Half a century later, and the town had grown substantially, in 1851 Kilbirnie contained 5,484 people, due to the Industrial Revolution, hastened by the locality of the Ayr and Glasgow railways. However, the industry entered a decline and was eventually closed, the Decoy Bride a film starring David Tennant and Kelly Macdonald was partially filmed in Kilbirnie. The town was hit hard by the closure of traditional industries. The town has the 9th lowest life expectancy among pensioners in the United Kingdom according to a report published in the Daily Mail newspaper in 2012, in addition Kilbirnie has highest bankruptcy rate in Scotland. Kilbirnie has a rate of 71 insolvencies per 10,000 people, just ahead of Clydebank, Glengarnock Steel Works opened its blast furnaces around 1841 which caused a massive influx of people from all over the country, as well as all over the world. Initially these works were owned by Merry & Cunninghame before being taken over by David Colville & Sons and eventually nationalised as part of British Steel Corporation, the steelworks in Glengarnock provided employment for most men of the community. The entire collection of magazines of the steelworks at Glengarnock have been preserved and are held at the Mitchell Library. This provides content such as spotlights on employees and departments, and these mills are famous for their nets, used by the British Army and BT Tower. They are one of few companies in the United Kingdom who have expertise in this area. W & J Knox Threadmills was owned by the Knox family who were prominent, not only in Ayrshire but in the South of England too, whos Who editions of the period list many members of the family. Since the closure of the works in the 1980s, the area has been an unemployment blackspot with distinct social problems. The town has few local employers, and people generally commute out of the town for work
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Darwin, Northern Territory
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Darwin /ˈdɑːrwᵻn/ is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia. Situated on the Timor Sea, Darwin is the largest city in the sparsely populated Northern Territory and it is the smallest and most northerly of the Australian capital cities, and acts as the Top Ends regional centre. Darwins proximity to South East Asia makes it a link between Australia and countries such as Indonesia and East Timor, the Stuart Highway begins in Darwin, ending at Port Augusta in South Australia. The city itself is built on a low bluff overlooking the harbour and its suburbs spread out over some area, beginning at Lee Point in the north and stretching to Berrimah in the east. Past Berrimah, the Stuart Highway goes on to Darwins satellite city, Palmerston, the Darwin region, like the rest of the Top End, has a tropical climate, with a wet and a dry season. Prone to cyclone activity during the wet season, Darwin experiences heavy monsoonal downpours, during the dry season, the city is met with blue skies and gentle sea breezes from the harbour. The greater Darwin area is the home of the Larrakia people. On 9 September 1839, HMS Beagle sailed into Darwin harbour during its surveying of the area, John Clements Wickham named the region Port Darwin in honour of their former shipmate Charles Darwin, who had sailed with them on the ships previous voyage which had ended in October 1836. The settlement there became the town of Palmerston in 1869, and was renamed Darwin in 1911. The city has been almost entirely rebuilt four times, following devastation caused by the 1897 cyclone, the 1937 cyclone, Japanese air raids during World War II, the Aboriginal people of the Larrakia language group are the traditional custodians and the first inhabitants of the greater Darwin area. They had trading routes with Southeast Asia, and imported goods from as far afield as South, established songlines penetrated throughout the country, allowing stories and histories to be told and retold along the routes. The extent of shared songlines and history of multiple groups within this area is still contestable. The Dutch visited Australias northern coastline in the 1600s and landed on the Tiwi Islands only to be repelled by the Tiwi peoples, the Dutch created the first European maps of the area. This accounts for the Dutch names in the area, such as Arnhem Land, the first British person to see Darwin harbour appears to have been Lieutenant John Lort Stokes of HMS Beagle on 9 September 1839. The ships captain, Commander John Clements Wickham, named the port after Charles Darwin, in 1863, the Northern Territory was tranferred from New South Wales to South Australia. In 1864 South Australia sent B. T. Finniss north as Government Resident to survey, Finniss chose a site at Escape Cliffs, near the entrance to Adelaide River, about 60 km northeast of the modern city. This attempt was short-lived, however, and the settlement abandoned by 1865, on 5 February 1869, George Goyder, the Surveyor-General of South Australia, established a small settlement of 135 people at Port Darwin between Fort Hill and the escarpment. Goyder named the settlement Palmerston, after the British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, in 1870, the first poles for the Overland Telegraph were erected in Darwin, connecting Australia to the rest of the world
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Bentleigh, Victoria
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Bentleigh is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,13 km south-east of Melbournes central business district. Its local government area is the City of Glen Eira, at the 2011 Census, Bentleigh had a population of 14,920. Bentleigh was named after the infamous Victorian politician, Thomas Bent, the first Post Office in the area opened on 1 July 1865 as Jasper Road. After the railway arrived it moved to near the station in 1882 and was named Brighton East, in 1908 it was renamed Bentleigh in line with the station name. A Patterson Post Office opened in 1948, in 1961 it was renamed Patterson West when a new Patterson office opened near the railway station. Bentleigh is home to Alnutt Park, Victory Park, Halley Park, the strip shopping centre along Centre Road is the biggest in the area, of over 250 retail businesses, and convenient car parking. The shopping centre has a focus on food, continental delis and cake shops, restaurants. It has bank branches, fashion and shoe shops, doctors surgeries, dentists and other services, an independent bookshop, a newsagent. It has other services like hairdressers, picture framers, op shops for retail. There is a market next to the train station. Its schools are Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College, Bentleigh West Primary School, Bentleigh has two railway stations, Bentleigh and Patterson, the former is the end of zone 1 on the Frankston train line. This was after several accidents at the crossing involving pedestrians. Bentleigh is also serviced by two bus services, the 703 is a SmartBus service which runs from Middle Brighton to Blackburn through Bentleighs main shopping strip Centre Road. The 701 service starts from Bentleigh railway station and terminates at Oakleigh railway station, as part of the State Governments $10.5 billion transport plan the 701 service has been upgraded and the operating hours expanded to run seven-days-a-week for the first time. St. Pauls Primary School is a Catholic coeducational primary school located in Bentleigh on Jasper Road, the current principal is Mrs Tammisald who replaced Ann Cooper. The current Parish priest is Father Michael Sierakowski, established in 1928, it was managed by the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart until 1993. In 2009 the school started building a new hall and renovating the building both which were completed in 2010. The renovation improved the school substantially, the computer lab used to be in the library but it is now in a separate room
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National Institute of Dramatic Art
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The National Institute of Dramatic Art is an Australian national education and training institute for students in the performing arts. Since 1958, NIDA has educated students in performance and production for theatre, film and it offers programs ranging from degrees to public short courses, including holiday programs and corporate training. In 2013, NIDA was ranked as the 8th best drama school in the world by The Hollywood Reporter. NIDAs main campus is based in the Sydney suburb of Kensington, located adjacent to the University of New South Wales, NIDA is affiliated with the University of New South Wales. Founded in 1958, NIDA commenced acting classes in 1959, more than 50 years later, NIDA has grown to approximately 232 full-time students annually, approximately 70 full-time staff members. The student body for these courses totalled 199 in 2014, NIDA is located on Anzac Parade in the Sydney suburb of Kensington, across the road from the University of New South Wales. The campus was first opened in 1987, followed by additional buildings opened in 2001, the largest of these is the Parade Theatre offering seating for audiences of up to 707 people in its three-tiered, horseshoe-shaped auditorium. The Playhouse, Studio Theatre, the Space and the Atrium offer a variety of performance spaces. The Rodney Seaborn Library is a specialist library for NIDA students, graduates, the NIDA Archives collects, organises and preserves archival records created by or relating to NIDA. Williams had defended herself stating her management style was not Thatcherite, long also mentioned that amongst Williams supporters were Cate Blanchett and Ralph Myers. Supporting Puplick were actor, director and a graduate of the school Jeremy Sims, who had launched the essay, and Kevin Jackson, who had taught acting at the school for 27 years
