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I Know What You Did Last Summer

Director: Jim GillespieWriter: Kevin WilliamsonDirector of Photography:Denis CrossanEditor:Steve MirkovichMusic:John DebneyProduction Designer:Gary WissnerProducers:Neal H. Moritz, Erik Feig…

For Richer or Poorer

Director: Bryan SpicerWriters: Jana Howington and Steve LukanicDirector of Photography:Buzz Feitshans IVEditor:Russell DenoveMusic:Randy EdelmanProduction Designer:Stephen…

Coburg Peninsula

(Encyclopedia) Coburg or Cobourg PeninsulaCoburg or Cobourg Peninsulaboth: kōˈbûrg [key], c.50 mi (80 km) long and 25 mi (40 km) wide, N Northern Territory, Australia, E of Melville Island. It is a…

Transantarctic Mountains

(Encyclopedia) Transantarctic Mountains, mountain chain stretching across Antarctica from Victoria Land to Coats Land; separating the E Antarctic and W Antarctic subcontinents. Mt. Markham (14,275 ft…

commonwealth

(Encyclopedia) commonwealth, form of administration signifying government by the common consent of the people. To Locke and Hobbes and other 17th-century writers the term meant an organized political…

Howard, John Winston, Australian political leader

(Encyclopedia) Howard, John Winston, 1939–, Australian political leader and prime minister (1996–2007), b. Sydney. A graduate of Sydney Univ., a conservative lawyer, and a member of the Liberal party…

Brisbane, Sir Thomas Makdougall

(Encyclopedia) Brisbane, Sir Thomas MakdougallBrisbane, Sir Thomas Makdougallbrĭzˈbən, –bān [key], 1773–1860, British soldier, astronomer, and colonial administrator in Australia, b. Scotland. From…

Abbott, Tony

(Encyclopedia) Abbott, Tony (Anthony John Abbott), 1957–, Australian political leader, b. London, England. His family moved to Australia in 1960. Educated at the Univ. of Sydney and, as a Rhodes…

coolie labor

(Encyclopedia) coolie labor, term applied to unskilled laborers from Asia, especially from India and China. With the discontinuance of slavery, the use of Chinese and Indian contract labor in British…

Groote Eylandt

(Encyclopedia) Groote EylandtGroote Eylandtgr&oomacr;t īˈlənd [key] [Du.,=large island], 950 sq mi (2,461 sq km), Northern Territory, N Australia. It is the largest island in the Gulf of…