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    years the Sydney Female Refuge Society provided a home for women escaping from prostitution and unmarried young girls who fell pregnant. The society operated...
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    responsible for many of the philanthropic activities in Sydney. One of these was the Sydney Female Refuge Society set up to care for prostitutes in 1848. An academy...
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    philanthropic activities in Sydney. One of these was the Sydney Female Refuge Society set up to care for prostitutes in 1848. The first Sydney Royal Easter Show...
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    Commissioner of Inquiry into the colony of NSW. 1822 SYDNEY FEMALE REFUGE SOCIETY. (8 March 1864). Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), p. 5. Retrieved 5 February...
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  • was closed in Ireland in 1996. From 1897 to 1958, Ontario used the Female Refuges Act to incarcerate women felt to be "incorrigible". Following the Industrial...
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    Retrieved 8 June 2014. Penitent Females' Refuge Society (1859). The Penitent Females' Refuge and Bethesda Societies. Boston: T. R. Marvin & Son. p. 16...
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  • describes a whaling voyage from Sydney. 1848 House of the Good Shepherd and Sydney Female Refuge founded as women's refuges. First shipment of Irish Famine...
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    Wildlife Refuge (part) Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge Halfway Lake National Wildlife Refuge National Audubon Society Alkali Lake Wildlife Refuge Alkali...
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    London and Paris. Since they were also not very welcome, La Sape acted as refuge for them to cope with European life. Papa Wemba, a Congolese musician, is...
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    Asylum, a refuge for homeless older men, deserted women and children, and the mentally ill, opened at the corner of Pitt and Devonshire St in Sydney. It was...
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    the wombat, with observations on the female organs of generation". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 98: 304–12. doi:10.1098/rstl.1808.0020...
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  • the country house of librarian Warren Royal Dawson provided a refuge for the society's records.: 110  Fellowship requires nomination by at least one fellow...
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    the Devonshire Street Cemetery, South Sydney Morgue, the Convent of the Good Samaritan, the Sydney Female Refuge, police barracks and superintendent's...
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  • brother's name, Zhu Chongba, and pretends to be a boy in order to find refuge in a Buddhist monastery. Zhu Chongba remains at the monastery for years...
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    Reptiles of Australia. Sydney: Collins. p. 361. ISBN 978-0-7322-0011-4. Royal Society of New South Wales.; Wales, Royal Society of New South (1866). Transactions...
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  • Hunting Ground, surviving Southies, Scavs on a night hunt, and finding refuge in a vehicle called Scuttlebug, but the owners lock them in a cell, intending...
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    October 2023). "Israel bombs Gaza region where civilians were told to seek refuge, as mediators try to unlock aid". Associated Press. Archived from the original...
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    after leaving Hawaii about 8pm on Thursday (Sydney Time). The high flying trio were backed by 12 female cabin crew for the trip across the Pacific into...
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    experiencing homelessness long-term in Australia are found in the large cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. It is estimated that on any given night...
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  • "Tonica Jenkins" September 1, 2024 (2024-09-01) A frantic Ohio woman seeks refuge in a fast-food restaurant after escaping from a deadly assault. Police will...
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  • 1974, the Elsie Refuge, Australia's first women's shelter was established by Jennifer Dakers, Anne Summers, Carol Baker and other Sydney WLM activists,...
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  • philanthropist being involved with the Bible Society, Religious Tract Society, YMCA and the Sydney Female Refuge. By the 1860s he had retired from public...
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    by the ruler of Huahine, he was subsequently forced from Tahiti and took refuge in Moʻorea on 22 December 1808, but returned and defeated his enemies at...
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    Germaine Greer (category University of Sydney alumni)
    friend, someone she knew from her time with the Sydney Push and to whom she later dedicated The Female Eunuch: "Anyone who wants group sex in New York...
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    language spoken by the aboriginal Dharug people, who originally inhabited the Sydney area. It was first recorded in January 1798, when John Price and James Wilson...
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    The Religious Society of Friends began as a proto-evangelical Christian movement in England in the mid-17th century in Ulverston. Members are informally...
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    indiscriminately fired on people attempting to escape. Attendees seeking refuge nearby, in bomb shelters, bushes, and orchards, were killed while in hiding...
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    Zionism (redirect from Kadimah Society)
    1835. In the United States, Mordecai Noah attempted to establish a Jewish refuge opposite Buffalo, New York, on Grand Isle, 1825. These early Jewish nation...
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    A women's shelter, also known as a women's refuge and battered women's shelter, is a place of temporary protection and support for women escaping domestic...
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    were scarce. Between 1788 and 1792 about 3546 male and 766 female convicts were landed at Sydney. Many new arrivals were sick or unfit for work and the condition...
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