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s\) ~ ~ b:c i~ ug h e,\J i z a~r\AJevr 1) Th e Kakapo parrot is found in New Zea land. 2) Lichenostomus melanop s, or Yellow tufted honeyeater. NB: Victoria's official bird emblem is th e helmeted honeyeater, Lichenostomus melanops cassidix. 20) Bru ce Armstrong is better know for his huge 'chainsaw' sculp 3) Dog Monday. tures of animals, such as his huge eaglehawk Bunjil w hi ch over 4) M ari anne Faithful!. looks th e Docklands, M elbourn e. 5) Bridge (th e World Tea m O lympiad). 21) The Golden Sec tion . 6) (i) M ichae l and Patrick Ca nn y. 22) (i) Th e remains are those of Lord Nelson (1758-1805); (ii ) Michae l Ca nny. (ii ) th e ca rdinal was Ca rdinal Wolsey (1473 - 1530); and (iii) 19 (M ichae l) and 22 (Patri ck). (iii) th e artist was Giovann i da M aian o. (iv) John Hines was shot and kil led. 23) Edouard M anet (1832-83) and th e offe nding pain ting was hi s 7) Lazza ro Spallanza ni, in Italy 1765. reclining nude fi gure O lympia (1863). 8) 250 mil es or around 402.33 600 kilometres . 24) If 1+2+ ... +2 n is prime, th en 2n (1+2+ ... +2 n) is perfect. The 9) (i) M onaco-population per sq km- 16,35 0. quote is from Euclid's Elements, IX.36, 300BC (ex tra poin t) . (ii) Mongoli a-population per sq km- 1.8. 25) Robert Record e (c. 1510- 155 8) in hi s treatise Th e whetstone of (iii) Botswa na with 33 .6 dea ths per thousand. witte (London, 1557). (iv) Andorra w ith average life ex pec tancy of 83.5 years. 26) A Balmer edge is a kin d of feature in th e spectra of a ce lestia l 10) (i) Narsil. objec t w hi ch occurs at a specifi c wavelength or ra nge of wave (ii ) The Prancing Pon y, Bree in Th e Fellowship of the Ring. length s. This fea ture is commonl y use d to diag nose th e nature (iii) Anduril, th e Flame of the W es t. of th e surface of th e Sun and other stars, but has never before (iv) A propheti c drea m of his broth er Faramir, in which he was been seen in vi sible light from black holes . told to 'Seek fo r the Sword th at was broken'. 27) Th e Au stralian Security Intell ige nce O rga nisation. 11 ) Pemulwuy was th e leader of a band of about 100 wa rriors who 28) (i) Easil y recogni sa ble or distinguishable; consp icuous. Thi s waged a guerrilla war on the Europea n colony of New South word so unds very interes ting, and is all the more remark able Wales between 179 0 and 1802. because it is etymologica lly unrelated to the similar-sounding 12) Wreck Bay. On th e south coas t of New South Wales, Wreck and sy nonymous conspicuous (Latin con, an intensive, and Bay lands were returned in 1987. specere, to look). Kenspeckl e is mostly use d in Scotland and 13) Jan Carstenz, a Dutch sea farer, described armed confli ct with northern En gland. Abori gin es on th e northern coas t of Australi a in 1623 . (ii) Study or composition lasti ng late into the night. 14) Noboru Wata ya. Th e name is given both to the hero's ca t and (iii) To despise; to make li ght of; to disparage mockingly. hi s brother-in-law, in a cru cial plot twist. Rel ated to vile and vil ifica tion, vilipend is a word th at dispar 15) Art's scree n name is 'trepan' and hi s law yer's name is 'junta'. agement, slander or criticism, but w ith a fairly light to ne. 16) Aunt Saba refuses to consider a divorce beca use of th e inevita 29) In Th e Hitchhiker's Guide to the Ga laxy, by the late lamented ble drop in her social statu s that it would ca use . Douglas Adams, th e mea ning of life is 42, w hi le in the 'rea l li fe' 17) (i) Gustave Flaubert. of theoretica l phys ics, string theory w as va lidated w hen all the (ii) Th e Bac h Ca ntata is lch hatte vie/ Bekummernis. potentiall y anomalous equations were shown to be ca pable of 18) The key's name is 'promise'. reso lution to th e number 496. 19) Th e Wiener Kun st im Hause (Viennese Art at Home) group. She 30) They all won th e 2004 Walkl ey awa rd s in their va ri ous fi elds of first ex hibited her ceramic art at th e 1900 Pari s Exhi bition. journalism. The winners are: Rh onda Lewis, Mt Eli za, VIC; Tyler Saxton, Mill Park, VIC; Pat Pil grim & Co, Randwick, NSW. <)> 0 !: ' > ~() EUREKA STREE Iz> c t::! !: ~ g:: o ;<J-., COMMENT !:"' c" 4 Andrew Hamilton Out of our depth )> ~ ~ n I > "'.., LETTERS g ~ "' _V>"' 5 Gavan Breen, Christopher Fogarty 4 and Noelleen Ward I )> 4 V>"' COLUMNS )>z 0 4 7 Capital letter I m Ja ck Waterford The Right stuff 0 r- 47 Meng Haoran Missing my friend, fi e Xisi 0 9 Archimedes () Tim Thwaites Spicks and specks Cold night, Li Bai Drinking alone with -< the moon, translated by Ouyang Yu 10 By th e way Brian Matthews Plus ~a change 11 Summa theologiae FICTION James McEvoy Violence transformed 36 Mary Manning The third Great Bang 50 Watching Bri ef Juliette Hughes Must grumble IN PRINT 39 An ecumeni ca l spirit THE MONTH'S TRAFFIC Philip Harvey reviews Fresh Words and 8 Mick Sexton Joy and sorrow in Deed : The McCaughey Papers, edited by Sri Lanka, Ben Fra ser Back up to par Peter Matheson and Christiaan Mostert. 40 Tracking a reign of terror FEATURES Ben Fra ser follows Sally Neighbour through In the Shadow of Swords: 12 Th e arc of Europea n reconciliation On the trail of terrorism from Hugh Dillon examines the Afghanistan to Australia. 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