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Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark
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Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark Somalia - East African chestnut-backed finch-lark ("E. l. madaraszi") - : Found from southern Somalia and Kenya to northern Malawi and northern Mozambique - "E. l. hoeschi" - : Found from southern Angola and northern Namibia to western Zimbabwe - South African chestnut-backed finch-lark ...
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Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark
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Chestnut-backed sparrow-lark iant white patches on the nape and behind the eyes. The upperparts and wings are chestnut with some dark streaking. The thick bill is grey. The female chestnut-backed sparrow-lark is a drabber bird with heavily streaked buff-white underparts and head, and a white nape collar. The upperpart...
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T & T Supermarket
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T & T Supermarket T & T Supermarket T & T Supermarket is a Canadian supermarket chain which sells primarily numerous forms of Asian foods. The supermarket chain is headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia. In 1993, the first T & T was opened in Burnaby's Metropolis at Metrotown, a shopping centre in the Metroto...
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T & T Supermarket
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T & T Supermarket Canada. The stores range in size from to . In addition to the many departments found in a regular supermarket, most T & T stores also have an in-house bakery, an Asian deli, a sushi and Chinese barbecue department. T & T is part of Loblaw Companies, which purchased it in July 2009 for $225 million i...
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T & T Supermarket
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T & T Supermarket chain of Asian supermarkets; and a group of Canadian investors. Founder Cindy Lee is a Taiwanese-Canadian who started the business with one store. The name T&T itself stands for the names of Lee’s two daughters, Tina and Tiffany. T&T also represents the names of the two major investors involved when ...
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T & T Supermarket
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T & T Supermarket (largest T&T in Canada) - Surrey (2) - Impact Plaza and Central City Shopping Centre - Vancouver (4) - Keefer Place (Chinatown), First Avenue Square, Marine Gateway and Kensington Gardens ## Alberta. - Calgary (2) - Pacific Place Mall and Harvest Hills Crossing - Edmonton (3) - West Edmonton Mall...
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T & T Supermarket
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T & T Supermarket Rewards program. Despite being owned by Loblaw Companies, customers at T&T stores do not collect PC Optimum points. T&T instead operates its own rewards program called T&T Rewards. # Ongoing unionization issues. Huff Post Business Canada reported on July 17, 2012 that workers at a T&T Supermarket w...
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T & T Supermarket attempt improving scheduling issues as well as tying wage more closely to seniority, instead of favouritism. Shimmin gave in the article an example that Warehouse staffs at T&T Supermarket are working a 39-hour work week, spanning six days in a week. He also pointed out that there are cases where staf...
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T & T Supermarket Scarborough warehouse staff unionization. About 100 employees at the T&T Scarborough warehouse voted in the secret ballot vote on Monday July, 23. However, the Ontario Labour Relations Board sealed the ballot box for review. Dispute arose as the UFCW and T&T Supermarket argued about the eligibility of...
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T & T Supermarket permarket claimed that it was the decision of the Ontario Labour Relations Board to look into whether the union has enough support from employees to in the first place file the application. # Lawsuit of exploitation. On March 5, 2007, The Tyee blog reported a case of a foreign temporary worker who h...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk SmartAsk SmartAsk is a Canadian quiz show which ran for three seasons (2001-02 through 2003-04) on CBC Television. The show was taped in front of a live audience, with the players sitting on a tiered set (one team on top and the other on the bottom). The "SmartAsk" tournament was described by Ralph Benmergui,...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk Jalees replaced Michie for the final season. During the show's first two seasons, "Judge Lucci" (Luciano Casimiri) had a semi-recurring role as the show's on-air judge. The show also brought in numerous celebrity judges" for Season 2 including such celebrities as Colin Mochrie from "Whose Line Is It Anyway", ...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk and statistics. Saunders also handed out "Andy Awards" to the show's top players and funnier moments. # How to get on SmartAsk! Schools wishing to compete for the championship first submitted a written, audio or video entry to the CBC on a topic announced on the CBC's "SmartAsk" page. A major grievance again...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk television round. The 3 teams chosen from the territories received a bye into the television round. Teams then competed in a 64-team single-elimination tournament, culminating in the championships. The championship games were not taped until all of the first 60 games, to determine the four teams in the champio...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk of SmartAsk after team's entries were accepted was qualifying for television through a game played on CBC Radio. These games aired every Friday from late September to mid-November of the school year in which the season took place. The games were generally 15 minutes in length. There were three rounds to the ga...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk of 3 or 4 questions, such as science or spelling, with the last 20 point category being a viewer-submitted questions category, which was general knowledge. There was no penalty for an incorrect response in these rounds, and if the first team to buzz answered incorrectly, their opponents could then buzz in and ...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk was accepted from all players, and incorrect answers were penalized 30 points. Many radio hosts forgot that "steals" (answering a question, hopefully correctly, after the opposing team has answered incorrectly) were not allowed in the Lightning Round. Each year, the Lightning Round on radio was 90 seconds long...
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SmartAsk choose to pass on a question by indicating that they wished to pass. Otherwise, the questions were still worth 30 points for a correct answer and -30 points for an incorrect answer. Teams that won their radio game proceeded to compete in the television rounds. The tapings for the TV rounds were done in Novemb...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk rounds. However, on TV, there was a lockout system: if a team buzzed in before the question was finished that team could not buzz in for approximately 1.5 seconds. The questions increased in difficulty with each round. Each round had 3 categories, and each category had about 4 or 5 questions, but some had 3 or...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk Lightning Round. Player interviews were conducted at two different points in the game throughout the season. Players (one from each team) were either interviewed prior to the 100-point round or prior to the Lightning Round. Contestants stayed in their seats for the interviews. Generally, winning teams scored...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk probably the most unconventional SmartAsk had during its 3-year run. In the second season, the rounds were the 20 point round, the 50 point round, Dawg Eat Dawg, the Dirty Half Dozen and the Lightning Round. The 20 and 50 point rounds were NPB rounds. In the 20 point round, there were 2 categories of 3-4 ques...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk Gables". The 50 point round, however had 2 categories of 3-4 questions each. Several category names were based on a pun. The Dawg Eat Dawg round was particularly unusual. It was similar to Final Jeopardy from the popular game show "Jeopardy!", only that teams bet on members of the opposing team. The teams wer...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk bet. If the player was correct, the opposing team lost points equal to their bet. Some teams, notably semi-finalist Three Hills School bet lots of points in this round, after scoring them in the NPB rounds. Other teams did not, notably champion Merivale High School, who only ever bet 10 points in the Dawg Eat ...
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SmartAsk the question for 50 points; as such, it was possible for a player to earn 150 points during the round. After the Dawg question, Dirty Half Dozen questions were the next hardest in the game. The Lightning Round format didn't change from Season 1. It was, however, lengthened, although there was one game where o...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk round. Interviews of one player from each team were conducted before the 50 point round. Both contestants being interviewed went onto the floor, in between the player set and host table. As there were two hosts, the players were interviewed one after another. Generally, winning teams scored 600 to 800 points...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk Season 3. The third season format saw an end to the Dawg Eat Dawg round and further importance for the Lightning Round. The rounds became the 20 point round, the 50 point round, Smart and Smarterer (meant as a play on "Dumb and Dumberer", which was released in mid-June 2003), the Dirty Half Dozen and the Ligh...
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SmartAsk to a fair deal of banter before the Dirty Half Dozen) and Mio as an armpit hair model. Smart and Smarterer was a new round, and was moderated by the new host, Sabrina Jalees. The teams were given a category or theme, such as "Capitalize on That!" (political geography) or "Black and White" (general knowledge h...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk the second season. The question difficulty was decreased compared to the second season, although it was in this round that differences in question difficulty from earlier rounds to later rounds were most often noticed. The Lightning Round received an overhaul in Season Three. It was extended, with the average...
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SmartAsk
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SmartAsk Teams were told the amount of time for the round, and they were told during the round when the question values doubled. In the last three games, the time was displayed on the monitor facing the players (which showed the player set so that all players knew the game score at any time). Interviews were, as in Se...
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SmartAsk from London, Ontario scored 2,140 points, breaking the record set by Victoria School in Season 1. Also, the Bishop's College School-Fredericton High School third round game went to a 3-question overtime, the only time in all three seasons that this occurred. "SmartAsk" history was also made in the Templeton Se...
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SmartAsk ick Dunn - Runner-up: Pickering High School - Pickering, Ontario - Guoruey Wong, Alex Karney, Clara Blakelock, Robert Gillezeau - 2003 Merivale High School - Nepean, Ontario - Sarah Kriger (captain), Ben Smith, Jayson Johnson, Imran Karim - Runner-up: Kennebecasis Valley High School - Quispamsis, New Brunsw...
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List of minor planets: 1001–2000
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List of minor planets: 1001–2000 List of minor planets: 1001–2000 # External links. - Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)–(5000) (IAU Minor Planet Center)
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Parilia
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Parilia Parilia In ancient Roman religion, the Parilia is a festival of rural character performed annually on 21 April, aimed at cleansing both sheep and shepherd. It is carried out in acknowledgment to the Roman deity Pales, a deity of uncertain gender who was a patron of shepherds and sheep. Ovid describes the Pari...
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Parilia to be reinterpreted rather than abandoned, as Rome was an intensely traditional society. During the Imperial period, the date was celebrated as the "birthday" of Rome "(dies natalis Romae)". # Ceremony. The pastoral structure of the festival is carried out by the shepherd himself. After the sheep pen had been...
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Parilia jump through this flame, dragging his sheep along with him. Offerings of millet, cakes, and milk were then presented before Pales, marking the second segment of the ceremony. After these offerings, the shepherd would wet his hands with dew, face the east, and repeat a prayer four times. Such prayers requested P...
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Parilia three times, bringing an end to the ceremony. The urban form of the Parilia, on the other hand, is blended with other Roman religious practices and carried out by a priest. Ovid personally participated in this form and describes his experiences in the "Fasti". While the central actions of the rural ceremony ca...
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Parilia year. Together, the ashes of the unborn calf and the blood from the head of the October Horse are mixed by the Vestals and are added to the burning bean straw of the bonfire. Dumézil questioned whether the "Equus October" provided the horse blood, since the two ancient sources that mention the ingredient omit i...
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Parilia defined the boundaries of the new city "(pomerium)". He then prayed to the gods Jupiter, Mars, and Vesta asking for protection of this area. However, his brother Remus, unaware of the boundaries, crossed the line and was struck down by Romulus's henchman Celer. Over time, and under the influence of several Rom...
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Parilia e of the Parilia changed. First, after Julius Caesar heard the news of Roman Victory at Munda in 45 BC (around the date of the Parilia), he added games to the ceremony. At these games, the citizens would wear crowns in Caesar’s honor. Caligula instituted into the celebration a procession of priests, noblemen, b...
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Australia national rugby union team
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Australia national rugby union team Australia national rugby union team The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is controlled by Rugby Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the touring British Isles team. Australia have competed in all eig...
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Australia national rugby union team and South Africa. They have won this championship on four occasions. Australia also plays Test matches against the various rugby-playing nations. More than a dozen former Wallabies players have been inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame. # History. ## Early years. Australia'...
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Australia national rugby union team when playing in Brisbane, but with an Australian Coat of Arms in place of the usual emblems of each colony. The first Test between Australia and was played at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1903, with New Zealand winning 22–3. This tour improved rugby's popularity in Sydney and Brisba...
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Australia national rugby union team when the new "Northern Union" code was still in its infancy in Australia, a match between the Kangaroos and the Wallabies was played before a crowd of around 20,000, with the Rugby League side winning 29–26. The First World War had a very negative effect on rugby union in Australia....
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Australia national rugby union team official Australian team selected through most of the 1920s before the 1929 All Blacks tour. The New South Wales Waratahs were re-formed in 1920, however, and played regularly throughout the decade including series of matches against New Zealand and South Africa before their 1927–28 ...
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Australia national rugby union team following World War Two was played at Carisbrook, Dunedin between Australia and New Zealand in 1946, which New Zealand won 31–8. Australia did not win on the three match tour; beaten 20–0 by New Zealand Maori, and then losing 14–10 to the All Blacks the following week. Australia emba...
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Australia national rugby union team of that year, Australia played the All Blacks twice in New Zealand, winning both games and taking back the Bledisloe Cup for the first time on New Zealand soil. The 'Number 1' All Black side was touring South Africa at the time and the wins by Australia against the B-team have someti...
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Australia national rugby union team Tests against Australia. The following year Australia fell to a three Test whitewash to the All Blacks. Australia won in July 1952, defeating Fiji at the Sydney Cricket Ground – they then lost the second Test to Fiji by two points. Australia managed to beat the All Blacks at Lancaste...
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Australia national rugby union team Elizabeth and Johannesburg. After returning home, they faced France at the SCG, who beat them 15–8. In 1962, Australia played the All Blacks five times and lost all but a 9-all draw at Athletic Park. After defeating England 18–9 in 1963 in Sydney, Australia beat the Springboks in co...
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Australia national rugby union team over a major nation since 1934. The British Isles came the following year, beating Australia 11–8 at the SCG, before hammering them 31–0 in Brisbane. Australia left for Europe in that December where a 14–11 victory over Wales was followed by a slim 11–5 defeat of Scotland. The tour ...
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Australia national rugby union team on tour, Australia hosted Wales who also beat them. ## 1970s. Australia played Scotland in 1970 and won by 20 points. The 1971 South African tour of Australia took place the next season. Protests were held around Australia and in Queensland a state of emergency was issued in advanc...
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Australia national rugby union team their only Test of the year. The following year, Australia hosted Tonga, and after winning the first Test, they lost 11–16 at Ballymore in their second. Australia also had a short tour of the United Kingdom in November 1973 where they lost 24–0 to Wales, and 20–3 to England. In 1974...
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Australia national rugby union team to score a try in either of their losses. The tour of Britain and Ireland continued into 1976, and Australia lost to England at Twickenham, but were able to defeat Ireland at Lansdowne Road. On their way home Australia played one more match—in Los Angeles against the United States. A...
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Australia national rugby union team by a three match series with the All Blacks. Although New Zealand won the first two, Australia defeated them in the last Test at Eden Park with Greg Cornelsen scoring four tries. The following year Ireland visited Australia and defeated Australia in two Tests. Following this Australi...
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Australia national rugby union team for Australia. In 1984 Australia toured the Home nations with a young side and new coach Alan Jones. The 1984 Wallabies became the first team from Australia to achieve a Grand Slam by defeating all four Home Nations: England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland, and a strong Barbarians side....
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Australia national rugby union team in a three match series for the Bledisloe Cup. New Zealand rugby was in turmoil as an unofficial team named The Cavaliers that contained the bulk of the All Blacks players toured South Africa. On return those All Blacks who had toured with The Cavaliers were banned from selection for...
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Australia national rugby union team Park. Australia beat a full strength New Zealand team 22–9 to secure their first series win on New Zealand soil. Australia went into the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1987 confident. However, the semi-final against France at Sydney's Concord Oval, was lost 30–26. Australia then lost ...
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Australia national rugby union team half-back Nick Farr-Jones. Before and during the 1987 World Cup Alan Jones increased his activities outside coaching Australia, including radio broadcasting. Following the World Cup Jones was removed as coach and Bob Dwyer—who had coached Australia in 1982 and 1983—returned to coach ...
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Australia national rugby union team 1986 Bledisloe Cup win in New Zealand and the Rugby World Cup in 1987 and the Rugby World Cup victory in 1991. ## 1990s. The team regrouped and then went into the 1991 World Cup with a renewed attitude. In the pool games they beat Argentina, cruised to a 38–3 win over Wales, and be...
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Australia national rugby union team All Blacks pounded their line. They faced England in the final at Twickenham. England changed their usually forward-dominated game plan and attempted to play more of a running game. It was unsuccessful and Australia battled out a 12–6 win. David Campese was named player of the tourna...
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Australia national rugby union team from the boot of Rob Andrew. This was Australia's worst ever World Cup result, on a par with Australia's unexpected exit from the 2007 campaign at the quarter-final stage, also against England. The Tri-Nations and Super 12 tournaments were established that year, and started in 1996. ...
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Australia national rugby union team by the All Blacks and Springboks. Rod Macqueen was appointed as Smith's successor and in 1998 Australia won both their Tests over the All Blacks to gain the Bledisloe Cup. They retained the Bledisloe in 1999 when they defeated the All Blacks by a record 28–7 in Sydney. In the 1999 W...
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Australia national rugby union team majority of points courtesy of fullback and goal-kicker Matt Burke. In 1999, five Australian players won their second Rugby World Cup: Phil Kearns, John Eales, Tim Horan, Jason Little and Dan Crowley. ## 2000s. In 2000 Australia retained the Bledisloe Cup, and won the Tri Nations ...
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Australia national rugby union team This was a contrast to much of the previous century where many Rugby union players were lured to league with large salaries. After not retaining the Tri-Nations in 2002, and losing the Bledisloe Cup in 2003 Australia made a strong start to their 2003 World Cup campaign with a 24–8 w...
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Australia national rugby union team and were finally beaten after England's Jonny Wilkinson kicked a drop goal in extra time. In 2005 to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the professionalism of rugby union the Wallaby Team of the Decade was announced. John Eales being named captain by a selection panel of 30. Foll...
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Australia national rugby union team in 2006, as well as a subsequent win over Ireland. Australia lost by 20 points in their opening Tri-Nations fixture against the All Blacks. They then beat South Africa in Brisbane by 49–0. They won one of their remaining four matches of the tournament. Following defeat by England in ...
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Australia national rugby union team mixed results in the 2008 Tri Nations Series, defeating New Zealand in Sydney and beating South Africa twice, in both Perth and Durban. However, the Wallabies suffered the worst defeat in their history, going down 53–8 to South Africa in Johannesburg. 2009 was not a good year for th...
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Australia national rugby union team was a 21 – 6 win over the Springboks. In the Autumn Internationals of 2009, they lost to All Blacks 32 – 19, they beat England 18 – 9 on Jonny Wilkinson's return in the English jersey. The Wallabies then drew with Ireland 20-all after Brian O'Driscoll's last minute try to give Ronan ...
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Australia national rugby union team and ensuring they retained second place both in the 2010 Tri-Nations competition as well as the IRB World Rankings. However, they suffered their tenth consecutive defeat at the hands the All Blacks, an all-time record. Later that year however, Australia finally beat New Zealand in a ...
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Australia national rugby union team They however failed the following season in their attempt to win the expanded version of the competition in 2012 called The Rugby Championship. Australia also won their first match against Italy in the 2011 Rugby World Cup, but lost their second 2011 World Cup match, 6–15 against Ir...
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Australia national rugby union team pool match against Russia, 68–22. The Wallabies beat the Springboks 11–9 to progress into the semi-finals. However a week later the Wallabies were knocked out of the 2011 World Cup after being defeated 6–20 by the All Blacks in the second Semi Final match. They then faced Wales in th...
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Australia national rugby union team occasions winning 43 times, losing 29 and drawing twice. He had won just 3 times against their main rivals, the All Blacks, with 1 draw in 2012. However, he left with a good record against the Springboks, with 9 wins from 14. Highlights during his tenure as coach included leading the...
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Australia national rugby union team meant the Bledisloe Cup would stay with New Zealand for the 11th year in a row. In addition to this, McKenzie led to team to a 38–12 loss to South Africa, the biggest ever winning margin by South Africa over Australia in Australia. The 14–13 win over Argentina was McKenzie's first vi...
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Australia national rugby union team and saw them score the most points in either the Rugby Championship / Tri Nations. During the Championship, McKenzie made several bold moves as a coach. He dropped star player Will Genia for Nic White, who at the time had only 3 caps, and named Ben Mowen as captain in his first year ...
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Australia national rugby union team during the tour Australia did retain the Lansdowne Cup, reclaimed the Hopetoun Cup and claimed the James Bevan Trophy for the 6th time in a row. In 2014, their 4 consecutive wins were increased to 7 for the first time since 2000. They earned a 3–0 test series win over France during ...
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Australia national rugby union team the first time since 2002, in addition to ending their 28-year winless run at Eden Park. However, Australia came crashing back to earth, suffering a 51-20 defeat during the second Bledisloe test, staged at the venue, stretching Australia's Bledisloe Cup drought to a 12th year. Austra...
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Australia national rugby union team loss to Argentina, their first loss to Argentina in 17 years. This loss meant that Australia became the first country to lose to Argentina in the Rugby Championship since Argentina's admittance in 2012. For the second consecutive year, Australia finished in third place in the Rugby C...
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Australia national rugby union team However, he left with a poor record against Rugby Championship opponents, failing to win a match against New Zealand and leaving with a 1-3 win-loss record against South Africa. On 22 October 2014, New South Wales Waratahs head coach Michael Cheika was appointed the new head coach o...
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Australia national rugby union team to three, with fly half Bernard Foley slotting a late drop goal and three second-half penalties. The Wallabies lost the other three test matches on the tour against , and which dropped them to sixth place on the world rankings. In 2015 it was time for the Rugby World Cup. Australia ...
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Australia national rugby union team win over Scotland by 35 - 34. They then defeated Argentina in the Semi finals which took them to the Grand Final against New Zealand, which they lost 34 - 17. 2016 went badly for the Wallabies, the beginning of a severe downward trend in their results. In June the Australians hosted...
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Australia national rugby union team their trans-Tasman rivals. In the end of year internationals, Australia managed wins against Wales (32-8), Scotland (23-22) and France (25-23), but lost to Ireland 27-24 before losing a fourth game against England by 37-21. The following year saw little improvement. In the 2017 June...
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Australia national rugby union team Africa. Although they pulled off a surprise 23-18 win in the third Bledisloe test that year, in their autumn test season they only achieved wins against Japan (63-30) and Wales (29-21) before suffering a fifth straight defeat to England 30-6 and a crushing, record-setting loss to Sco...
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Australia national rugby union team New Zealand. Although they secured a hard-fought 23-18 victory against South Africa in Round 2, they subsequently lost to Argentina at home for the first time since 1983, as well as the return fixture to South Africa 23-12. Their third win of the year was against Argentina where, des...
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Australia national rugby union team between the sides 110 years earlier. They defeated Italy 26-7 the following week, before falling to a sixth defeat to England by 37-18 the week after. The Wallabies finished 2018 having won only four games from thirteen tests played, marking that year as their direst run of results i...
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Australia national rugby union team number of matches in the early 1900s. In 1928 governing bodies agreed that "the Australian amateur representative colours of green and yellow, should be adopted". The following year the All Blacks came to Australia, and the jersey worn was emerald green with the Australian Coat of A...
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Australia national rugby union team tan-coloured panel across the chest resembling the shape of a bra. This led the "Sydney Morning Herald's" chief rugby correspondent to include a satirical piece in his column comparing it to Kramer and Frank Costanza's infamous man bra from "Seinfeld". In 2010, KooGa became the appa...
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Australia national rugby union team the BLK logo replacing the KooGa logo on the kit for the 2013 Spring Tour. In October 2013, the ARU announced that Asics would be the apparel sponsor beginning in 2014. In the third 2017 Bledisloe Cup test, for the first time, the Wallabies played with an indigenous jersey. - Note...
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Australia national rugby union team have a nickname, and Rabbits was one of the names suggested by the English newspapers. The Australians rejected this, and did not want the national team to be represented by an imported pest. They opted for the native Wallaby instead. At first it was only touring parties that were ni...
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Australia national rugby union team Australia was the first nation to win two World Cups, with victories in 1991 and 1999. They have progressed to four Rugby Union World Cup finals, a record jointly held with New Zealand. In 1987, Australia co-hosted the inaugural Rugby World Cup with New Zealand. They were grouped wi...
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Australia national rugby union team for the 1991 World Cup in Europe, Australia again finished at the top of their pool, defeating Western Samoa, Wales and Argentina during the group stages. They met Ireland in the quarter finals, beating them by one point to go through to the semi-finals, where they defeated the All B...
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Australia national rugby union team on the story of the 1995 tournament, Australia can be seen playing South Africa in one of the scenes. Rod Macqueen was the Australian head coach for the 1999 World Cup in Wales. The team beat Ireland, Romania and the United States during the group stages and, after defeated hosts Wa...
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Australia national rugby union team defeated Scotland in the quarter finals, and then the All Blacks in what was regarded as an upset in the semi-finals, to go to the final. England won the final in Sydney during extra time with a Jonny Wilkinson drop goal. The 2007 World Cup in France was not a successful tournament ...
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Australia national rugby union team the final where they were beaten by South Africa. ## Rugby Championship. Australia's main annual tournament is The Rugby Championship (formerly the Tri-Nations from 1996 to 2011), competing with New Zealand, South Africa and Argentina who joined in 2012. Australia has won the tourn...
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Australia national rugby union team Cook Cup with England since 1997; the Hopetoun Cup with Scotland since 1998; the Lansdowne Cup with Ireland since 1999; and the James Bevan Trophy with Wales since 2007. Below is a summary of the Test matches played by Australia up until 28 October 2018: # Players. ## Selection po...
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Australia national rugby union team continued to play for a Super Rugby franchise from February to August, making them eligible for Wallaby selection as they would also be still playing in Australia. However, this "flexible contract" would only be given to a select number of players considered by the head coach and the...
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Australia national rugby union team to October, and the end-of-year tour in November. At this point, players playing in Europe were not considered for the flexible contract, as too much of the European season clashes with Wallaby test matches. However, on 22 April 2015, further changes were made to the original selecti...
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Australia national rugby union team if a player does not fit this criteria and plays overseas, but chooses to return to Australia, they become immediately eligible for selection as long as they have signed at least 2 years with the Australian Super Rugby franchise for the following season. Like the flexible contract, W...
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Australia national rugby union team players. , the Wallabies have fourteen former players (and two former coaches) in the World Rugby Hall of Fame, which was previously known as the IRB Hall of Fame prior to 2015. Wallabies in the World Rugby Hall of Fame: The two World Cup-winning captains, John Eales and Nick Farr...
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Australia national rugby union team Macqueen were also inducted in 2011. Six former Wallaby greats with combined playing careers spanning almost nine decades – Tom Lawton Snr, John Thornett, Ken Catchpole, Mark Ella, David Campese and George Gregan – were added to the list of Australians in the IRB Hall of Fame in 201...
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Australia national rugby union team 15 times. During Australia's drawn 1963 Test series against South Africa, in which he served as captain, the Wallabies became the first team in the 20th century to win consecutive Tests over the Springboks. Gregan, a World Cup-winning scrum-half whose Test career spanned the amateur...
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Australia national rugby union team of Fame was merged with the IRB's Hall of Fame. Wallabies and Olympic gold medallists from the 1908 tour of the United Kingdom, Tom Richards and Daniel Carroll, were honoured with inductions in 2015 and 2016. Both of these men went on to become dual internationals in rugby with Rich...
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