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Aardklop is an annual South African arts festival held in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Potchefstroom has always been a cultural city and home to several well-known South African writers and artists. The Aardklop National Arts Festival has been in existence from 1998 and has since become a bastion of arts and culture in South Africa.
The North-West University, a merged tertiary institution which was created on 1 January 2004, with campuses in Potchefstroom, Mafikeng and Vanderbijlpark. [8] The Potchefstroom Campus (formerly the Potchefstroomse Universiteit vir Christelike Hoër Onderwys , founded in 1869) is the largest, and the university's head office is located there.
Jane Austen Festival, [7] a three-day event and the largest Jane Austen event in North America, [8] held on the third weekend of July at Locust Grove; Derby City Comic Con, [9] held in late June; Fandom Fest Comic Expo, [10] held in mid-summer; Forecastle Festival, a three-day nationally renowned music, art and environmental activism festival ...
The original railway chartered at the site in 1882 was the Eureka Springs Railway, extending from Seligman, Missouri, to Eureka Springs.In 1899, it became the St. Louis & North Arkansas Railroad Co.; in 1906, the Missouri & North Arkansas Railroad Co.; in 1922, the Missouri & North Arkansas Railway Co.; in 1935, the Missouri & Arkansas Railway Co.; in 1949, the Arkansas & Ozarks - which closed ...
2012 – Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese politician, 1st President of East Timor (b. 1937) 2012 – Donald M. Payne, American businessman and politician (b. 1934) 2012 – Helen Walulik, American baseball player (b. 1929) 2013 – Chorão, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1970)
Business and economy Lehman Brothers emerges from bankruptcy protection. (BBC) Turkish Airlines begins a service to Somalia, the first regular service to the capital Mogadishu except regional East African flights to operate in twenty years. (The Guardian) Disasters Approximately 9,000 residents of the Australian town of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, are evacuated as the Murrumbidgee River ...
August 17, 2012 Bonner Springs: United States Cricket Wireless Amphitheater: The Wreckage August 18, 2012 Little Rock: Arkansas State Fairgrounds (KDJE Radio Show) August 19, 2012 Maryland Heights: Verizon Wireless Amphitheater: August 21, 2012 Grand Rapids: Rock the Rapids (main stage bands only) August 22, 2012 Tinley Park: First Midwest Bank ...
International relations Australia–East Timor relations Australia and East Timor sign a treaty for a permanent maritime border in the Timor Sea, ending a decade-long dispute over rights to the sea's rich oil and gas reserves. (BBC) Law and crime Hate crime in the United Kingdom Paul Golding and Jayda Fransen, leader and deputy of the British far-right organization Britain First, are convicted ...