It was on the beach in front of the Compleat Angler Hotel on Bimini Island, where the two old cobbers stripped off their shirts, put up their dukes and went at it.
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"Well cobbers [friends] it's my time, I was elected by saint [Brenton] Tarrant after all," it said, referring to the man charged with the murder of 123 Muslims in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand in March.
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Barry Ross was an experienced stage actor. 100,000 Cobbers was mostly filmed at Liverpool Military camp using national servicemen. There was also location shooting at Luna Park. Shirley Ann Richards plays a chiropractor.
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He grew up in Manildra. Fleeting served in the Australian army during World War II from 1940-46.Claude Fleeting war service accessed 14 March 2015 He was given leave to appear in 100,000 Cobbers.
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100,000 Cobbers is a 1942 dramatised documentary made by director Ken G. Hall for the Australian Department of Information during World War II to boost recruitment into the armed forces. Grant Taylor, Joe Valli and Shirley Ann Richards play fictitious characters.
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Cobbers sculpture Cobbers is a prominent 1998 sculpture by Peter Corlett of Sergeant Simon FraserFraser (born 31 December 1876, Byaduk, Victoria) would rise to the rank of lieutenant. He was killed in action 11 May 1917. rescuing a wounded compatriot from No Man's Land after the battle.. A replica of the sculpture is in the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Victoria.. The title comes from a letter that Fraser, a farmer from Byaduk, Victoria, wrote a few days after the battle and that was widely quoted in Australia's official history of World War I... Several commemorative events have been held at the Memorial Park. On 9 May 2009, a Service of Remembrance was held to mark the 94th anniversary of the Battle of Aubers Ridge.
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The other four go on board while Scotty works in a munitions factory. The final scene is of the four cobbers going into action, Jim, Peter and Bill thinking of their women. The movie ends with a quote from Henry Lawson, "I tell you the star of the south shall rise... in the lurid clouds of war".
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Film production at Cinesound ground to a halt with the advent of World War II, although Hall kept busy during this period producing and directing newsreels, documentaries and short subjects, including Road to Victory (1941) and Anzacs in Overalls (1941). Hall also did shorts with dramatised segments, such as Another Threshold (1942), and short features, 100,000 Cobbers (1942) and South West Pacific (1943).
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Sutton-Smith is also the author of a series of novels about boys growing up in New Zealand in the 1930s, entitled Our Street, Smitty Does a Bunk, and The Cobbers. Initially published in serial form in 1949 in the New Zealand School Journal, the stories created a national furor as Brian Sutton-Smith allegedly endorsed morally unacceptable behavior in them.
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Memorial Auditorium is also home to the offices of Concordia's athletic department. Memorial Auditorium's first sporting event, played on December 2, 1952, was a 69-59 Cobbers victory over North Dakota State University, attended by 5,500 fans. It has hosted concerts by many recording artists over the decades. Memorial Auditorium's roof suffered uneven snowloads, resulting in a basketball hoop being lowered by an inch early in 2013.
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Baynton's husband died on 10 June 1904 and left his entire estate to her. She invested in the stock market, bought and sold antiques, and collected black opals from Lightning Ridge. She also became chairman of the Law Book Company of Australasia. In 1907, her only novel, Human Toll, was published, and in 1917 Cobbers, an edited reprint of Bush Studies with two additional stories, appeared.
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Born in Cape Coast then known as (Gold Coast) and named Kweku, he was said to be the son of Birempong Cudjo. In 1754, Kweku was one of three Fante children taken to England for education by a missionary from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Of the three children, Thomas Cobbers died in 1758, while William Cudjoe suffered a mental breakdown and died in 1766. Kweku fared better.
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These prisoners were sentenced to day labouring near the town and were employed in construction within the localised area. They frequently experienced shortages of food and clothing, which lead many of the men to steal from each other as well as from neighbouring houses.Peter Macfie, ‘Dobbers and Cobbers: Informers and Mateship among Convicts, Officials and Settlers on the Grass Tree Hill Road, Tasmania, 1830-1850,’ Tasmanian Historical Research Association 35 (1988), 117-118.
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Her final Australian feature was Come Up Smiling (1939), supporting Will Mahoney and directed by William Freshman, though produced by Hall. In 1940, she appeared on stage in a production of Charley's Aunt at the Minerva Theatre.Charley's Aunt 1940 production at AusStage She also appeared in stage productions of The Ghost Train and Are You a Mason. The following year, she appeared in her final Australian film, the war-time featurette 100,000 Cobbers (1942), directed by Hall.
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An excellent junior footballer, Marinko played under-18 football for the West Perth Cobbers in the Young Sports Temperance League at the age of 18, and also captained the under-15 side at the same time.Marinko's Sons Show Talent – The Daily News. Published 23 August 1950. Retrieved from Trove, 18 August 2012. In 1953, having begun playing for Mount Hawthorn in the Metropolitan Junior Football Association (MJFA), he was selected in representative side to tour Victoria.
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Zylstra played college football at Augustana University for a year and then Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. In 2013, during his first year at Concordia, he caught 41 passes for 774 yards with seven touchdowns. In 2014, while working a summer job on the grounds crew at Moorhead Country Club, he suffered a foot injury which required surgery which caused him to miss 1 game. He finished his college career with 1,932 receiving yards and 18 touchdowns in 29 games with the Cobbers.
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Paul Edward "Red" Pierce (December 29, 1914 – March 31, 2004) was an American football player and coach. He served two stints as head football coach at Sul Ross State University, from 1946 to 1951 and again from to 1976 to 1977, and one stint at Sam Houston State University, from 1952 to 1967, amassing a career college football record of 143–81–9. His Sam Houston State Bearkats shared the NAIA Football National Championship in 1964 after tying the Concordia Cobbers in the title game.
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In 1991 he joined the Bryndwr YMCA and Crichton Cobbers clubs in Christchurch, where he was trained by Steve Yarbrough. He won gold at the New Zealand national wrestling championship in July 1991 and a bronze medal at the IV Commonwealth Wrestling Championship, in Dunedin, in October 1991, both in the 100 – 130 kg category. He also won the National Tauranga Highland Games in the Open Division in March 1992. He died on 24 March 2006 of bile duct cancer, and was buried at Sydenham Cemetery.
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He went to Australia in 1930 and spent over two years travelling across the country. This prompted him to write his book Cobbers (1934) which the Australian Dictionary of Biography describes as "still the most perceptive and captivating characterization of Australia and its people ever written by a visitor". He continued to compose and wrote several other books, including an autobiography, True Thomas (1936), before his death of a heart attack in 1950. Miss St Osyth Mahala Eustace-Smith(1886 - 1970) of Wormingford married Thomas Wood in 1924 at Wormingford Church.
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She graduated in 1997 from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, with degrees in Communication and French. Saberi also played for the Cobbers soccer team from 1994 to 1996. Chosen as Miss North Dakota in 1997, she was among the top ten finalists in Miss America 1998, winning the Scholar Award. Saberi holds a master's degree in broadcast journalism from Northwestern University and a second master's degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge, where she played for the university soccer team and the King's College, Cambridge, soccer team.
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Memorial Auditorium is a 6,000-seat indoor arena located in Moorhead, Minnesota. It was built in 1952 and dedicated to Moorhead-area residents who fought and served the United States during World War II and the Korean War, and until the Fargodome was built forty years later, was the largest indoor venue in the Fargo-Moorhead area. It remains the largest arena in the area to be used primarily for basketball, and has been the home of the Concordia College Cobbers basketball, volleyball and wrestling teams for decades. The arena contains only 1800 permanent seats, with the remaining seats in bleachers.
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The Sydney Morning Herald called 100,000 Cobbers "a fine film call to the fighting youth of Australia in this grave hour... the best film Ken Hall as made and it will have particularly nostalgic appeal for old diggers... It is often a quietly moving story." The News of Adelaide called it "probably the best documentary film Australia has produced... well acted, neatly produced and its action scenes are authentic and moving." The Mercury of Hobart wrote that Joe Valli was "outstanding". The West Australian wrote that: > It is a film for everybody, a picture everyone should see and one that no > Australian can view without a feeling of pride and genuine emotion... From > the time the recruits reach the enlistment depot every phase of their lives > and training is presented with a realism hitherto lacking in some of our > propaganda films.
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Stephen R. MacKinnon and Oris Friesen, eds. China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1987): 3, 25 (accessed April 7, 2009.. the Corn Cobbers, and the Cowboy Correspondents, the group included Millard, Charles Crow; Edgar Snow; John Benjamin Powell; John W. Powell; Morris J. Harris chief of the Associated Press bureau in China; John Harris of UP; H.S. Jewell; Victor Keene of the New York Herald Tribune; Hollington Kong Tong (董顯光 pinyin: Dong, Xian‘guang) (born November 9, 1887; died January 10, 1971 in New York city), later Ambassador from Nationalist China to the U.S. (April 5, 1956 to 1957);"Missouri Honor Medal Winners: Individuals" (Revised: November 17, 2008). Retrieved April 8, 2009 Henry Francis Misselwitz (born July 24, 1900 in Leavenworth, Kansas), correspondent for The New York Times and the United Press in Japan and China from 1923 to 1936; and Joseph Glenn Babb, chief Associated Press correspondent in China.China Reporting, 25–26.
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407 The French journalist wrote of the same event, relating that some of the hungry townspeople went out to collect shell-fish and were attacked by the English. A little French boy taken on the shore was brought to Grey of Wilton. When asked if they had enough food for a fortnight, the boy said he had heard the captains say the English would not take the town by famine or force for four or five months yet.Dickinson, Gladys, Two Missions (1942), pp. 157-9, as 13 May, he wrote "garses et goujatz: cobbers & trollops," meaning the ordinary people of the town. Raphael Holinshed puts this event on 4 July, saying that Grey first issued a warning to d'Oysel about the cockle-pickers. The 17th century writer John Hayward gave a description of famine in the town based on the account of an English prisoner in Leith called Scattergood. He said the inhabitants and troops were reduced to eating horses, dogs, cats and vermin, with leaves, weeds and grass, "seasoned with hunger".
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