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Tasmania

tasmania

An island south of australia and the smallest state of the commonwealth. Its capital is hobart. It was discovered and named van diemen's island in 1642 by abel tasman, a dutch navigator, in honor of the dutch governor-general of the dutch east indian colonies. It was renamed for the discoverer in 1853. In 1803 it was taken over by great britain and was used as a penal colony. It was granted government in 1856 and federated as a state in 1901.


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The Fiber Disease

... tenuicauda Schott., a native insect originally described in 1917 from Queensland, later recorded by Womersley (3) from Western Australia and Tasmania, and now from Victoria. In this instance, the presence of the insect produced on several nurses raised lumps very similar to mosquito bites, ...

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Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:06 pm
 
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The Fiber Disease

... tenuicauda Schott., a native insect originally described in 1917 from Queensland, later recorded by Womersley (3) from Western Australia and Tasmania, and now from Victoria. In this instance, the presence of the insect produced on several nurses raised lumps very similar to mosquito bites, ...

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Sun Jan 07, 2007 2:13 pm
 
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The Fiber Disease

p.s. Maggie May, I did read those links. I gotta say, I just love Chuck Swindole, when I was a kid on an undeveloped farm in rural tasmania, I'd listen to his "Insights for Living" show as I was lying in bed. It was restful, beneficial, and he seldom employed fear in his teachings. ...

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