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Hobart's Funnies is the nickname given to a number of specialist armoured fighting vehicles derived from tanks operated during the Second World War by units of the 79th Armoured Division of the British Army or by specialists from the Royal Engineers.
Queen's Battery in 1908, showing the excellent view of the entrances of the Derwent River. The Hobart coastal defences are a network of now defunct coastal batteries, some of which are inter-linked with tunnels, that were designed and built by British colonial authorities in the nineteenth century to protect the city of Hobart, Tasmania, from attack by enemy warships.
The Outline of the Post-War New World Map was a map completed before the attack on Pearl Harbor [1] and self-published on February 25, 1942 [2] by Maurice Gomberg of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It shows a proposed political division of the world after World War II in the event of an Allied victory in which the United States of America, the ...
Hobart Cenotaph (usually The Cenotaph, also referred to as Hobart War Memorial) is the main commemorative military monument for the Australian state of Tasmania. It is located in the capital Hobart in a prominent position on the Queens Domain , on a small rise overlooking the city and River Derwent .
In 2013, South Australia adopted a logo that omitted Tasmania. [7] In 2016, Woolworths Supermarkets were forced to withdraw Australia Day caps from sale which featured a map of Australia without Tasmania. [8] In 2019 Thins Crisps released a Pie & Sauce flavour crisps which had a map of Australia with Tasmania omitted on the package. [9]
MV Tassie III (S-77) was a 120-ton steel motor vessel, which was requisitioned by the United States Army during the Second World War. She was carrying 80 tons of condemned ammunition when she was wrecked 28°38′20″S 153°36′50″E / 28.638795°S 153.613906°E / -28.638795; 153.613906 while sheltering at the jetty at Byron Bay ...
The British joke is said to have been laid to rest when "peace broke out" at the end of the war, and countries agree to a joke warfare ban at the Geneva Convention. [3] In 1950, the last copy of the joke is sealed under a monument in the Berkshire countryside, bearing the inscription " To the Unknown Joke ".
Ask any red-blooded Aussie guy what the map of Tassie reminds him of, and you'll be told something quite, quite different (more related to cherries than applies). :--) JackofOz 12:40, 12 September 2006 (UTC) [ reply ]