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...average life spans: Carp -100 years, Parrot - 80 years, Swan - 100 years, Hawk Eyed Goapulus - 200 years and Turkey Buzzard - 120 years.
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average wing span
goose flying away from the sun ... 1 metre
goose flying into the sun ... half metre ;)

number of golden-egg-laying geese ... not as many as lead and zinc :eek:
 

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...SOAP stands for "Simple Object Access Protocol" and makes use of an Internet application protocol as a transport protocol.
Both SMTP and HTTP are valid applications layer protocols used as a transport for SOAP. HTTP is more widely used.
 
...the Battle of Koh Chang took place on 17th January 1941 during the French-Thai war and resulted in a decisive victory for France over the Thai Navy.
 
...normal amplitude and duration leads to sub-normal amplitude but returns to normal with an extended duration. This eventually reaches supra-normal duration, involving a penetration on an arithmetic scale which also becomes extended.
 
...why roses fail to survive: Loose planting, Wind rock, Waterlogged soil, severe drought in poor soils, severe frost, use of fresh manure at planting time, Hard pruning every year in Floribundas, and on Hybrid Teas in sandy soil, Dry roots at planting time, the fatal diseases: rust, canker and honey fungus, underground pests: chafer grubs and ants, planting under trees.
 
...that St Basil the Great, Confessor, Archbishop of Caesarea was an illustrious doctor and legal mind: Born in 329 at Caesarea, the metropolis of Cappadocia, died 1st January 379.
 
...Neagh, Lough is the largest freshwater Lake in the British Isles, covering 400 square kilometres, and is in the east of Northern Island.
 
...a tooth is made up of enamel, crown, dentine, pulp, cementum, root, and blood vessels and nerves. Failing to look after your teeth properly will reduce your expected lifespan.

Dentists were known to exist as far back as 2650BC. By removing or killing the pulp pain was reduced or removed. Unfortunately the decay continued and it is thought over half of ancient Egyptians died due to tooth decay.
 
...that failure by Queensland and NSW Governments, to go ahead earlier with expansion of ports, has cost Australia a large part of its share of sales in Coal and Iron Ore etc.,
 
That the area of Victoria reduces during a flood ? i.e. the border is the southern high bank of the Murray(?)

http://www.ga.gov.au/education/facts/dimensions/borders.htm
When Victoria was made a colony separate from New South Wales in 1851, there was much conjecture about where the border should lie. With natural boundaries being in favour at the time, one intention was to make the Murrumbidgee River the state boundary. After much argument, it was eventually decided to define the border as a bearing from Cape Howe, the eastern-most point of Victoria, to 'the nearest source of the River Murray', and from there along the river's course to the border of South Australia. The use of a river as a boundary has caused many arguments and debates between the states. Originally it was thought that doing so would cause less disputes and require less maintenance. But as trade and tariffs became more important in the early days, the Murray also grew in importance as a major trading route.

The river has changed it's course over time in some places, and because the jurisdiction of New South Wales extends to the southern high bank of the Murray River, this may change the status of some land parcels affected by the river's meandering path.

In 1859, NSW claimed the pastoral leases of Pental Island near Swan Hill on the grounds that the island lay to the north of the watercourse of the River Murray. In 1872, the case was decided in Victoria's favour when the Privy council maintained that the main watercourse, being the channel of greatest discharge of the Murray was to the north of the island.

The line of bearing between the start of the Murray and Cape Howe was explored and marked between 1870 and 1872 by Surveyors Alexander Black and Alexander Allan. In 1984, this line was resurveyed by the Department of Surveying, RMIT, and the section of the border was renamed The Black-Allan line in honour of those first explorers.
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I recall someone in Vic saying they were married on a houseboat in the middle of the river, and had to register the marriage with NSW.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/Natio...r/2004/11/23/1100972397224.html?from=storylhs
RMIT lecturer and survey team member Ron Grenfell said there had been intense rivalry between the two colonies from the start and NSW usually triumphed.

Before they had even split, the southern colony had already lost the rich farm country of the Riverina and rights to tax the lucrative Murray River trade.

The original border was to have been the Murrumbidgee River, which would have ceded to the southern colony a large tract of land, almost as far north as Canberra.

"Victoria would have been huge," Dr Grenfell said.

The discovery of gold at Delegate, and the question of which colony it lay in, prompted the first survey of the line from the Murray to Cape Howe nearly 20 years after the colonies had split. Surveyors Alexander Black and Alexander Allan forced their way through some of Australia's most rugged terrain to finish the two-year survey in 1872.

Black, a Victorian, laid the marker stone so that it faced Victoria. The straight segment of border was named the Black-Allan Line in their honour.

Even though it owns Delegate, not everything has gone NSW's way. When Dr Grenfell and a team of RMIT students surveyed part of the Black-Allan Line in 1984, they discovered an error that meant NSW had for decades been repairing a Victorian stretch of the Princes Highway just north of Genoa.

It was only a 14-metre stretch but, after the loss of the Riverina, the Murray watercourse and the gold at Delegate, it was, for Victoria, a rare, symbolic victory
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Victoria is really NSW and they only split because gold was found, infact 2 weeks after the split. It was a sneaky trick and I feel royalties are due to NSW for all gold previously found.
 

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