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Shearing the Rams is an 1890 painting by Australian artist Tom Roberts.It depicts sheep shearers plying their trade in a timber shearing shed.Distinctly Australian in character, the painting is a celebration of pastoral life and work, especially "strong, masculine labour", and recognises the role that the wool industry played in the development of the country.
Paintings in the Geelong Gallery (2 P) This page was last edited on 26 August 2024, at 00:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Geelong Gallery, formerly known as Geelong Art Gallery, is a major regional gallery in the city of Geelong in Victoria, Australia.The gallery forms Geelong's Cultural Precinct, along with the adjacent Geelong Library and Heritage Centre (Geelong Regional Library and Geelong Heritage Centre), Geelong Arts Centre, and the Geelong Courthouse (housing Back to Back Theatre and Platform Arts).
As of 2000, the largest Canadian-owned arms-exporters were Canadian Aviation Electronics (aka CAE), the 61st-largest defence corporation in the world, and Dy4 Systems (a division of Curtiss-Wright), the 94th-largest. [citation needed] Foreign-owned companies based in Canada, such as General Motors and Bell Helicopter also contribute significantly.
Geelong West is a commercial and residential suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. When Geelong was founded, the area was known as Kildare but its name was changed to Geelong West in 1875. The main street is Pakington Street. At the 2016 census, Geelong West had a population of 6,966. [1]
The prime minister's portrait gallery dates back to 1890, when John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada, assisted in the unveiling of his own portrait. [3] At first, the works were commissioned by friends and colleagues, made by the artist's own initiative, and then donated to the Crown Collection. A century later ...
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