In late August, 1851 James Regan was walking from the goldfields of Clunes to see his mate, John Dunlop in Buninyong. His stopped at a place the aborigines called "Balla arat" and tried his luck. He discovered what was to become one of the richest alluvial goldfields the world had ever known. Source: Weston Bate, Lucky City: The First Generation at Ballarat 1851 - 1901, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1978 pages 7 & 8)

It is hard to be accurate as some miners may have decided to keep their finds quiet. Weston Bate quotes the following figures: Source: Weston Bate, Lucky City: The First Generation at Ballarat 1851 - 1901, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1978 pp. 77 and 86) See similar questions...

After kicking around many names and trying to come up with something akin to the name of his former employer's studio, Electro Vox (Electric Voice), Stan decided to try combining our two names. David GOLD STAn Ross.Santa Monica See similar questions...

Paraphrased Background: In August of 1968 the band's formal lineup was Alex on guitar, John Rutsey on drums, and Jeff Jones on bass and vocals. They got a job to play at the "Coff-In," a coffee house in the basement of an Anglican Church [great name, eh?] for $25/night. "The band was excited, but they had a big problem. While they had been dreaming of playing, they had neglected to come up with a name for their group. See similar questions...

It's impossible to tell. Right now we are fortunate to have a team of fine historians such as John Blair, Steve Hoffman, Elliot Kendall and others tracking down as many Gold Star recordings as possible. Because Gold Star was a totally independent rather than an in-house concern for a major corporate label, we don't have central documentation or cross-files like the major labels, so we are relying on other sources for our book. See similar questions...

Source: Curriculum Branch, Victorian Education Department, Investigating Settlement in Nineteenth Century Victoria, 1985) See similar questions...

In fourth grade after performing as Eeyore in "Winnie The Pooh." He found acting fun and that he had a talent for it and was hooked from then on. back See similar questions...

Lengthy but worthwhile scholarly articles on the anti-sexual origins and history of human genital mutilation are found in James DeMeo's The Geography of Genital Mutilation, James W. Prescott's Genital Pain vs. Genital Pleasure, and Karen Ericksen Paige's The Ritual of Circumcision. Many people believe that circumcision began with the Jews as a hygienic ritual. This is not correct. This belief results from us projecting a 20th Century rationale (hygiene) onto an ancient sacrificial blood ritual. See similar questions...

Food Addicts Anonymous was founded in December of 1987, in West Palm Beach, Florida. Our founder is a wonderful woman named Judith C. We are very grateful to Judith for starting our "Familyship." FAA was started so that we could have a place in which to discuss foods that bother us and to address our disease as an addiction, not just as an emotional or compulsive overeating problem. Initially, it might seem like your meals are completely different from what you would feed your family. See similar questions...

Propecia launched around the same time as Viagra (jokes and media coverage), which is unfortunate since Propecia can benefit a much larger percent of the population and is very safe. No. It can work all over, as long as the balding is not complete. It has the potential to work wherever there are miniaturized (fine) hairs. It is just that the crown has a longer phase where the hairs are in their transitional state. That is why it is important to treat the front early on. See similar questions...

KHRP was established in 1992 in response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, the Caucasus and elsewhere. Kurds were being subjected to ethnic cleansing programmes throughout the regions, accompanied by mass killings, displacement and prohibitions on their culture and language. They faced suspicion of harbouring separatist sympathies everywhere, simply by virtue of their ethnic origin. See similar questions...

We first had the idea for producing Web page templates to complement our Web clipart (then called ButtonKits) way back in 1997. We started out with Space, Homebase and Stripes, and they proved to be a big hit. We've never looked back! See similar questions...

Back in 1995 — the Solo Acoustic tour for Tom Joad was the first Boss activity we covered on the web. At the time, we called our site "The Backstreets Highway" (jeez, was there really a time when the superinformationhighway references were clever? Oh, probably not) at an AOL-hosted URL that was hard to remember. Like http://members/aol.com/somethingsomething.... Would've used Backstreets.com, but that was taken by some porn company at the time. No kidding. See similar questions...

Medicare was passed into law on July 30, 1965 but beneficiaries were first able to sign-up for the program on July 1, 1966. See similar questions...

After WWII, a number of people independently started to work on intelligent machines. The English mathematician Alan Turing may have been the first. He gave a lecture on it in 1947. He also may have been the first to decide that AI was best researched by programming computers rather than by building machines. By the late 1950s, there were many researchers on AI, and most of them were basing their work on programming computers. See similar questions...

The 1996 Welfare Reform legislation placed approximately 8.5 million immigrants and refugees in jeopardy of losing their benefits. Particularly vulnerable are elders who are legal permanent residents but who have not obtained citizenship. Without citizenship, these elders face loss of housing, income, food stamps, and access to health care, among other basic needs. For elderly immigrants applying for citizenship, the INS naturalization exam can present a daunting obstacle. See similar questions...

To get started you need only to add value to your account. Most students, faculty and staff are automatically set up to use Gold Points and just need to add value to their account. If you experience any difficulty adding Gold Points, either online or at a Card Value Center , you can: Visit the Spartan Shops Office where you can pay with Cash, Check, or Credit Card (we accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover). See similar questions...

California's Gold Rush began southwest of the Antelope Valley, contrary to the popular belief that James Marshall found the first gold in 1848 at Sutter's Mill in northern California. The big discovery occurred in 1842 at what was then called Live Oak Canyon when Francisco Lopez, stopping for lunch while searching for stray cattle, pulled some wild onions and found flakes of gold clinging to their roots. See similar questions...

It's a small world and if you have noticed, it's getting smaller. Everyone is on the move and traveling here and there and more and more people are crowding into smaller and smaller areas and even the necessary office items have shrunk to fit into our crowding society. Now, with new technologies you can work from your lap, standing on the train or sitting on a bus without a desk. See similar questions...