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No. 3 Communication Unit 30 Jun 1942 28 Feb 1946 New South Wales: No. 4 Communication Unit 7 Sep 1942 16 Apr 1946 Queensland: No. 5 Communication Unit 1 Dec 1942 9 Mar 1946 North Queensland: No. 6 Communication Unit 8 Dec 1942 30 Dec 1945 Northern Territory: No. 7 Communication Unit 24 Dec 1943 31 May 1946 Western Australia: No. 8 Communication ...
In response to the Great Depression, the Subsistence Homesteads Division was created by the federal government in 1933 with the aim to improve the living conditions of individuals moving away from overcrowded urban centers while also giving them the opportunity to experience small-scale farming and home ownership. [6]
No. 9 Operational Group (No. 9 OG) was formed in New Guinea in September 1942, consisting of seven RAAF squadrons attached to the USAAF's Fifth Air Force. [1] [2] Four of the squadrons were based at Milne Bay and three at Port Moresby. [3] On its establishment it was the RAAF's "premier fighting unit" in the South West Pacific Area (SWPA). [4]
Between 1862 and 1934, the federal government granted 1.6 million homesteads and distributed 270,000,000 acres (420,000 sq mi) of federal land for private ownership. This was a total of 10% of all land in the United States. [5] Homesteading was discontinued in 1976, except in Alaska, where it continued until 1986.
In all, more than 160 million acres (650 thousand km 2; 250 thousand sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States, were given away free to 1.6 million homesteaders; most of the homesteads were west of the Mississippi River. These acts were the first sovereign decisions of post-war North–South capitalist ...
The homestead principle is the principle by which one gains ownership of an unowned natural resource by performing an act of original appropriation. Appropriation could be enacted by putting an unowned resource to active use (as with using it to produce some product [ a ] ), joining it with previously acquired property, or by marking it as ...
The Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB), formed in 1974, is a city-wide non-profit housing and tenant advocacy group in New York City. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] : 253, 258, 261–264 [ 5 ] UHAB was originally sponsored by the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine . [ 6 ]
Frontier House is a historical reality television series that originally aired on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States from April 29 to May 3, 2002. The series followed three family groups that agreed to live as homesteaders did in Montana Territory on the American frontier in 1883.