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Rita Bullwinkel is an American author who is known for her 2024 debut novel Headshot, which was longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize. [1] She is also the author of the 2018 collection of short stories Belly Up , which was awarded a Whiting Award in 2022.
Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Statham, AO, MBE, ARRC, ED (née Bullwinkel; 18 December 1915 – 3 July 2000) was an Australian Army nurse during the Second World War.She was the sole surviving nurse of the Bangka Island Massacre, when the Japanese killed 21 of her fellow nurses on Radji Beach, Bangka Island, in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) on 16 February 1942.
Jay Ward and his business partner Alex Anderson created Bullwinkle for The Frostbite Falls Review, a storyboard idea which was never developed into a series.They gave him the name "Bullwinkle Jay Moose" after Clarence Bullwinkel, who owned a Ford [8] [9] dealership at College and Claremont, in Oakland, California, [10] [11] because they thought it was a funny name. [12]
The seat is named after Vivian Bullwinkel, an Australian Army nurse during the Second World War who was the sole surviving nurse of the Bangka Island Massacre. [4] [5]A number of objections were received to adoption of the name, as Bullwinkel had only a tenuous connection with Western Australia and no association with the area covered by the new division, and a local nurse from the Bangka ...
Jeffrey and Vivian Bullwinkel visited every sizeable hospital in Victoria to raise the money that created the Australian Nurses Memorial Centre. She is noted as a founder together with Edith Hughes-Jones, Wilma Oram and Annie M. Sage. [2] The Melbourne Nurses Memorial Centre opened in 1949 to honour the heroism of nurses. [1]
Capt Bullwinkel was a nurse in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), and was aboard the Vyner Brooke when it was attacked and sunk on 14 February 1942. She made it to shore almost immediately and the following morning she and British soldier, 7654688 Private (Pte) Cecil Gordon Kinsley, survived the massacre of the nurses, soldiers and ...
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Bishop Bullwinkle's real name was Bernard Thomas. The Bullwinkle part of his name came from a childhood nickname; while in school, a classmate of his wrote on the bulletin board, "Bernard Thomas is funny like Bullwinkle the moose". [1]