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Georges Perec underlines the special status of X: "this letter that has become a word, this noun that is unique in the language in having only one letter, unique also in that it is the only one to have the shape of what it designates. [nb 14] In other cases, on the contrary, social norms justify the use of one-letter words.
The name Australia has been applied to two continents. Originally, it was applied to the south polar continent, or sixth continent, now known as Antarctica.The name is a shortened form of Terra Australis which was one of the names given to the imagined (but undiscovered) land mass that was thought to surround the south pole.
Australia has at least 755 species of reptile, more than any other country in the world. [224] Besides Antarctica, Australia is the only continent that developed without feline species. Feral cats may have been introduced in the 17th century by Dutch shipwrecks, and later in the 18th century by European settlers.
South Australia: Coat of arms of South Australia: Badge of South Australia: Sturt's desert pea: Piping shrike: Hairy nosed wombat: Leafy seadragon-Blue, red and gold Opal(State Gemstone) Bornite(State Mineral) Spriggina floundersi [4] South Australian tartan: Symbols of South Australia: Tasmania: Coat of arms of Tasmania: Badge of Tasmania ...
It appeared on buildings and personal goods as a branding device for Australia. These later formed the basis of the arms of New South Wales, Melbourne and Adelaide. [4] Following the federation of Australia, the first official coat of arms of Australia was designed by Wilson Dobbs and granted by King Edward VII on 7 May 1908. [10] [11]
Since 24 October 2005, Australia has issued only biometric passports, called ePassports, which have an embedded RFID microchip that contains the same personal information that is on the colour photo page of the passport, including a digitised photograph. Australia was only the fourth country in the world (after Malaysia, Thailand and Sweden) to ...
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The blue colour has a different hex code for RGB scheme, but when printed -the Pantone number- it is the same: Australia (Pantone 280C, Hex: 00008B) vs. United Kingdom (Pantone 280C, Hex: 012169). The flag is represented as the Unicode emoji sequence U+1F1E6 REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER A , U+1F1FA REGIONAL INDICATOR SYMBOL LETTER U .