• Frank Noel Wilkes AM (16 June 1922 – 20 August 2015) was an Australian politician who served as the Leader of the Labor Opposition in Victoria from 1977...
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    Bundoora. He became shadow Attorney-General under the leadership of Frank Wilkes. After Wilkes narrowly lost the 1979 election to the Liberal premier, Dick Hamer...
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    one continuous city, so while the city of Wilkes-Barre itself is a mid-sized city, the larger Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Urban Area contains half a million...
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    Wilkes University is a private university in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It has over 2,200 undergraduates and over 2,200 graduate students (both full...
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    Wilkes Booth was born in a four-room log house on May 10, 1838, the ninth of ten children. He was named after English radical politician John Wilkes,...
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  • film actress Faas Wilkes (1923–2006), Dutch football (soccer) player Frank Wilkes (1922–2015), Australian politician Frederick Wilkes (1869–after 1892)...
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  • representing Koonung Province. She is the daughter of former state Labor leader Frank Wilkes, and a former teacher and local councillor. Buckingham was born in Melbourne...
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  • of their plan to establish the Parliamentary Friends of Israel group. Frank Wilkes and Holding, who was an informer for the United States, later told diplomatic...
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  • the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre Township, Pennsylvania, just outside the city of Wilkes-Barre. They have won the Macgregor Kilpatrick...
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  • Wilkes Land crater is an informal term that may apply to two separate cases of conjectured giant impact craters hidden beneath the ice cap of Wilkes Land...
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    1973 and 1976 state elections. Frank Wilkes became party leader in 1977. At the 1979 state election, Labor under Wilkes gained eleven seats, the party's...
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    unit's circuits. At the time of his death, Wilkes was an Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge. Wilkes was born in Dudley, Worcestershire, England...
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    mother is Wendy Wilkes. His younger brother, Patrick, was a golf pro and is now a golf coach in Michigan. At the age of four, Wilkes-Krier began learning...
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    mounting a stronger challenge to the Liberals than it had in some time. Frank Wilkes had taken over as ALP leader from Holding in 1977, and took Labor into...
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    Party leader and Premier on 5 June 1981, and John Cain Jr. replaced Frank Wilkes as Labor Party leader in September 1981. The incumbent Liberal government...
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    Cain government through "Movement" linked ministers such as Bill Barry and Frank Scully. Protestant and left-wing ministers strongly opposed the Movement...
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    Premier John Cain (senior). Upon Cain's death in 1957, he was succeeded by Frank Wilkes, who went on to become state Labor leader from 1977 to 1981. Former ABC...
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  • Paul Kibblewhite, New Zealand chemist and engineer (b. 1941) 2015 – Frank Wilkes, Australian soldier and politician (b. 1922) 2017 – Jerry Lewis, American...
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    first Greek-Australian Rhodes Scholar Frank Wilkes – former Leader of the Opposition in Victorian Parliament Frank Wilson – Stage and television actor,...
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  • "Frank Sheptock resigns as Berwick football coach". Times Leader. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Retrieved September 27, 2019. Bloomsburg profile Wilkes profile...
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    author of The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth (1907). In this 309-page book, Bates claimed that John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. president...
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  • lashless look of a rabbit". John Wilkes: is the owner of "Twelve Oaks" and patriarch of the Wilkes family. John Wilkes is educated and gracious. He dies...
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    Savannah River Area (CSRA). Wilkes County, named for British politician and supporter of American independence, John Wilkes, is considered Georgia's first...
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    through weightlifting. In 1964, he received a Bachelor of Science from Wilkes University. For 13 years, he taught mathematics and chemistry while living...
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    resources to deal with backlogs of council plans. The commission recruited Frank Heath from its advisory Architects Panel to deal with these problems but...
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    the Year 2021 – Governor's Award Victorian Male Athlete of the Year – Frank Wilkes Award 2022 – Australian of the Year 2022 – Officer of the Order of Australia...
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    Frank M. Wilkes Power Plant is an 879 megawatt (MW), natural gas power plant located northwest of Jefferson, Texas in Marion County, Texas. The plant...
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  • Paul Stoddart – airline magnate – studied at Preston Technical School Frank Wilkes – politician and Victorian parliamentary Labor leader – student at Preston...
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    she truly desires, however, is her neighbor, Ashley Wilkes—the one man she cannot have. The Wilkes family has a tradition of intermarrying with their cousins...
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      First party Second party Third party   Leader Rupert Hamer Frank Wilkes Peter Ross-Edwards Party Liberal Labor National Leader since 23 August 1972 29...
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