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The species complex was first described by the ornithologist John Latham in 1790 as Psittacus banksii, [4] commemorating English botanist Sir Joseph Banks.The red-tailed black cockatoo also has the distinction of being the first bird from Eastern Australia illustrated by a European, as a female, presumably collected at Endeavour River in north Queensland, was sketched by Banks' draughtsman ...
Bethpage's history as a space and aviation center has left heavy metals, toxic waste, and radioactive [23] [dead link ] byproducts dumped into the surrounding ground and leeching into the water.
Ardrossan is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada, within Strathcona County. [2] It is located on Highway 824, approximately 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) east of Sherwood Park.. The community takes its name from Ardrossan, in Scotland.
Centerton is a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States.Located west of Bentonville on Highway 102, Centerton has grown from a railroad stop and fruit orchard community in the early 20th century into a suburban bedroom community within the rapidly growing Northwest Arkansas (NWA) region.
The OCA–DLR Asteroid Survey (ODAS) was an astronomical survey to search for small Solar System bodies focusing on near-Earth objects in the late 1990s. This European scientific project was a collaboration between the French Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur (OCA) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
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