Word: australia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abroad will be mounting shows that will attempt to map the many lines drawn by what Talbot boasted was "the pencil of nature." The first, and one of the most ambitious, is at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston until April 30 (stops in Canberra, Australia, and London follow). Curated chiefly by the collector Daniel Wolfe, "The Art of Photography: 1839-1989" is a thorough but not a definitive history -- one version of the story, splendidly but narrowly focused upon questions of style through the work of just 85 major figures. It would be possible to assemble another equally...
United's Flight 811, which originated in San Francisco and Los Angeles, had departed Honolulu International Airport with 336 passengers and 18 crew members at 1:53 a.m. (6:53 a.m. EST) for Auckland, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia. It returned 59 minutes later with a 10-by-40-foot vertical hole in its right side near the front of the craft...
...died in 1982), were a cautionary horror. Several years ago, when his hands had long been too shaky to draw but could still scribble, he signed ream upon ream of blank sheets that now bear forged "Dali lithographs," the pride and joy of suckers from New Jersey to Brisbane, Australia...
While Huerta was trying to move up the ladder, Lifford thought it was time to get away from Boston. He spent six months at The University of South Wales in Australia...
...fierce battle raged in Australia, where some veterans groups denounced Hirohito as the "biggest war criminal on earth." Said Bruce Ruxton, Victorian president of the Returned Services League: "Going to his funeral would be like going to the funeral of the devil." Prime Minister Bob Hawke skirted a decision by acceding to protocol, which does not usually require the Australian head of government to attend the funeral of a head of state...