• Poor Fellow My Country is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Xavier Herbert. At 1,463 pages, it is the longest Australian work of...
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    Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning novel Poor Fellow My Country (1975). He was considered one of the elder statesmen of Australian...
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  • My Fellow Americans is a 1996 American political comedy film directed by Peter Segal. It stars Jack Lemmon and James Garner as feuding ex-presidents,...
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  • Empfindung) Thomas Harris – Black Sunday Xavier Herbert – Poor Fellow My Country Georgette Heyer – My Lord John Jack Higgins – The Eagle Has Landed Ruth Prawer...
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    Disturbing Element in 1963. After nearly a decade of preparation, Poor Fellow My Country was published in 1975, winning the Miles Franklin Award that year...
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  • Poor Things is a 2023 film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Tony McNamara, based on the 1992 novel by Alasdair Gray. A co-production between...
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  • art of Paul Gauguin. He was responsible for the dust-jacket for Poor Fellow My Country by Xavier Herbert. During the sixties, the Crooks lived in Sydney...
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    Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick...
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  • Medecine. Robertson & Mullens, Melbourne. Herbert, Xavier (1975). Poor Fellow My Country. Collins, Sydney. Hill, Ernestine (1943). The Great Australian Loneliness...
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  • Okwui Okpokwasili (category MacArthur Fellows)
    her art. Cultural critic Hilton Als praised this piece in a 2017 review of Poor People's TV Room. The piece was commissioned by Danspace Project and Performance...
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  • considered by many a masterpiece, the Miles Franklin Award-winning Poor Fellow My Country, it provides a fictional account of life in 'Capricornia', a place...
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  • Franklin (1879–1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career (1901). She bequeathed her estate to fund this award. As...
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    The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon, mainly known as the Knights Templar, was a French military order of the Catholic faith...
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  • Safe House Frank Hardy – But the Dead Are Many Xavier Herbert – Poor Fellow My Country Thomas Keneally Gossip from the Forest Moses the Lawgiver David...
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  • glorifies Australian tradition and attacks the notion of “a sun burnt country”. Ellen’s story begins with “Once upon a time.” This fairy tale beginning...
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    small a Foot, 1621 1648 A full fed Rose on meals of Tint 1154 1141 A fuzzy fellow, without feet F08.03.010 1929 3.062 6.054 173 171 A great Hope fell 1945...
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    Terri Clark (category Canadian women country singers)
    six Number Ones. "If I Were You", "Poor Poor Pitiful Me", "Emotional Girl" and "In My Next Life" all topped the country charts in Canada (the former three...
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  • Holiday Song Cycle" – Les Murray; 1975 in Australian literature: Poor Fellow My Country – Xavier Herbert; Gossip from the Forest – Thomas Keneally 1974...
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  • 1975 in Australia (category 1975 by country)
    Hon Sir Frank Kitto, KBE. 27 April 1976 – Xavier Herbert's novel Poor Fellow My Country is announced as the winner of the 1975 Miles Franklin Award. October...
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  • especially given that her fellow trainees are mostly models and cheerleaders who have no wrestling experience and thus make poor opponents. Paige also struggles...
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  • Cat-Nappers, Chapter 16 (Orlo Porter speaking): "Potty little lovers' quarrel my left eyeball. She called me a lily-livered poltroon. And a sleekit timorous...
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    Jim Sciutto". Twitter. When my father's relatives came here, many Americans considered Italy a "shithole" country. When my mother's relatives immigrated...
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    up a string of hits on both the pop and country charts, including "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" (Rogers doing lead vocals...
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  • My Kitchen Rules (often abbreviated as MKR) is an Australian competitive cooking game show broadcast on the Seven Network since 2010. The show is currently...
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  • The Story of My Experiments with Truth (, lit. 'Experiments of Truth or Autobiography') is the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, covering his life from...
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    with the Death of my Father, a Misfortune, which tho' I was not then capable of knowing, I shall never be able to forget; for as he, poor Man, stood upon...
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    Johnny Cash (category American country guitarists)
    over, I don't see much reason to change my position ... The old are still neglected, the poor are still poor, the young are still dying before their time...
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    Dolly Parton (category American country singer-songwriters)
    song, a remake of Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind", released in late 1967, reached the country Top 10 in January 1968, launching a six-year streak...
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    a staged reading of My Country, My Country and the music of Fanny Mendelssohn. Weyi was named as an inaugural Playwright Fellow at the Denver Center...
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    Toby Keith (category American country singer-songwriters)
    Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including 20 number one hits and 22 additional top 10 hits. His longest-lasting number one hits are "Beer for My Horses"...
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