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Adelaide is a feminine given name from the English form of a Germanic given name, from the Old High German Adalheidis, meaning "noble natured". The modern German form is Adelheid , famously the first name of Queen Adelaide , for whom many places throughout the former British Empire were named.
[26] or the name Dafydd (David) Tar Heel (US) a person from North Carolina; also the nickname of the athletic teams at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and frequently used as an adjective for students or fans of that school Taswegian, Tassie (Australia) A person from Tasmania. [27] Tapatío (Mexico) A person from Guadalajara ...
This is a list of town and locality names in South Australia outside the metropolitan postal area of Adelaide.. For a list of suburbs in metropolitan areas of Adelaide, see lists inside following individual city council articles: City of Adelaide, City of Burnside, City of Campbelltown, City of Charles Sturt, Town of Gawler, City of Holdfast Bay, City of Marion, City of Mitcham, City of ...
In 2003, the Australian Football League standardised the club mascots into the Mascot Manor theme. [1] Some, however, have since been replaced. [2] Adelaide - Claude "Curls" Crow; Brisbane Lions - Roy the Lion (Former: The Brisbane Bear 1987-96) Carlton - Captain Carlton; Collingwood - Jock "One Eye" McPie; Essendon - Moz "Skeeta" Reynolds
The South Australian Nomenclature Act 1917 authorised the compilation and gazetting of a list of place-names contained in a report of the previous October prepared by a parliamentary "nomenclature committee", and authorised the Governor of South Australia, by proclamation, to "alter any place-name which he deems to be of enemy origin to some ...
This List of Adelaide obsolete suburb names gives suburb names which were officially discontinued before 1994, and their new names or the suburbs into which they were incorporated. Earlier name Named, or part of another suburb, as of 1993 [update]
This is a list of nickname-related list articles on Wikipedia. A nickname is "a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name." [ 1 ] A nickname is often considered desirable, symbolising a form of acceptance, but can sometimes be a form of ridicule.
This name is one of the names used on the widely used Aboriginal Australia Map, David Horton (ed.), 1994 published in The Encyclopedia of Aboriginal Australia by AIATSIS. Early versions of the map also divided Australia into 18 regions (Southwest, Northwest, Desert, Kimberley, Fitzmaurice, North, Arnhem, Gulf, West Cape, Torres Strait, East ...