* 31 March – Xavier Herbert wins the Commonwealth 150th anniversary literary award for his novel Capricornia.

Capricornia Cays is both a national park and a scientific national park in Queensland ( Australia ), located 486 km and 472 km north of the state capital Brisbane respectively.

Midnight Oil ’ s albums which peaked in the Australian Top Ten were 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Red Sails in the Sunset, Species Deceases, Diesel and Dust, Blue Sky Mining, Scream in Blue ( Live ), Earth and Sun and Moon, Breathe, 20, 000 Watt R. S. L., Redneck Wonderland, The Real Thing, Capricornia and Flat Chat.

* Capricornia ( album ), an album by Midnight Oil

Kirsten Fiona Livermore ( born 10 November 1969 ), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives since October 1998, representing the Division of Capricornia, Queensland.

Paul Marek, ( born 25 July 1964 in Mount Isa ), Australian politician, was the National Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 2 March 1996 until 3 October 1998, representing the Division of Capricornia, Queensland.

Colin Lawrence Carige, ( 19 July 1938-15 May 2002 ), Australian politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1975 to 1977, representing the Division of Capricornia.

* " Golden Age ", a song by Midnight Oil from Capricornia

The prison was replaced by the Capricornia Correctional Centre in 2001.

He co-produced programmes presented by Andrew Lofthouse and David Anderson as well as presenting the Friday breakfast shift on 4RK ( now re-branded as ABC Capricornia ).

** Division of Capricornia, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives based around the region

In 1922 he resigned and was elected to the Australian House of Representatives for Capricornia.

Category: Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Capricornia

Category: Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Capricornia

The Division of Capricornia is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.

Category: Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Capricornia

Alexander Paterson ( 24 January 1844-23 March 1908 ) was an independent member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Capricornia, Queensland.

Category: Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Capricornia

Category: Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Capricornia

Thomson was a member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Capricornia, Queensland, between 16 December 1903 until 12 December 1906.

Category: Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Capricornia

Archer gained election to the Australian House of Representatives electoral Division of Capricornia on an Anti-Socialist platform on 12 December 1906, serving until 13 April 1910.

Category: Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Capricornia

Henzell was elected to represent the Division of Capricornia in the Australian House of Representatives, and served as the member from 13 March 1993 until 2 March 1996.

Category: Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Capricornia

* Xavier Herbert-although not formally associated with the movement, his Capricornia of 1938, describes the early pioneer movement in the contemporary Northern Territory, Australian values, and white settler relationships positive and negative with the natives, as well as the native culture itself.

Capricornia Cays National Park is noted for its biological diversity, beauty and for provided habitat for a number of endangered plants and animals.

Capricornia is a term sometimes used for northern Australia, derived from the Tropic of Capricorn.

** Capricornia, Queensland, a region of the coast located around Rockhampton, Queensland.

* Birds Australia Capricornia, a regional group of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union.

It is possible that scholarly confusion stems from the geographical region known as Capricornia centred around Rockhampton, which historically encompasses all areas both coastal and inland between Bundaberg and Mackay.

Then there is the Federal Government seat of Capricornia again based in Rockhampton, which also takes in a large section of the same area, and then finally the Capricorn Region, which is a tourism body that promotes all areas within the Capricornia geographical region.

CQUniversity started out as the Queensland Institute of Technology ( Capricornia ) in 1967, and after two years under the name of the University College of Central Queensland, in 1992 became an official university named the University of Central Queensland.

The Capricornia College is located at Rockhampton campus and provides accommodation for up to 320 students.

The eastern half of the island is protected and forms part of the Capricornia Cays National Park, with a permanent ranger's station onsite.

The region is also known as Capricornia.

As this is an unofficial area, the boundary lines remain unclear causing some dispute over Mackay Regional Council as part of Capricornia and Central Queensland, or part of the Tropical North of Queensland.

He was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1910 general election as the member for the Capricornia, Queensland.

* Aliens ( 1902 novel ), by Mary Tappan Wright

* The Atlas ( novel ), by American author William T. Vollmann

The novel begins with the droogs sitting in their favorite hangout ( the Korova Milkbar ), drinking milk-drug cocktails, called " milk-plus ", to hype themselves for the night's mayhem.

In 1950 it was combined with " War of Nerves " ( 1950 ), " Discord in Scarlet " ( 1939 ) and " M33 in Andromeda " ( 1943 ) to form the novel The Voyage of the Space Beagle ( 1950 ).

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

In chapter four of the second Inspector Hanaud novel, The House of the Arrow ( 1924 ), Hanaud declares sanctimoniously to the heroine, " You are wise, Mademoiselle … For, after all, I am Hanaud.

In terms of a rudimentary chronology, Poirot speaks of retiring to grow marrows in Chapter 18 of The Big Four ( 1927 ), which places that novel out of published order before Roger Ackroyd.

Beginning with Three Act Tragedy ( 1934 ), Christie had perfected during the inter-war years a sub-genre of Poirot novel in which the detective himself spent much of the first third of the novel on the periphery of events.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

In 1980, Angela Lansbury played Miss Marple in The Mirror Crack'd ( EMI, directed by Guy Hamilton ), based on Christie's 1962 novel.

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

* Abduction ( novel ), a 2000 novel by novelist Robin Cook

* The Abduction ( novel ), 1987, also called Bortførelsen, written in Norwegian by Mette Newth, translated into English by Steven T. Murray and Tiina Nunnally

The novel covers the entire reign of Alexander III ( 1249 – 1286 ), " almost entirely from Alexander's viewpoint ".

Living in worsening poverty, neglecting his health, and drinking excessively, Jarry went on to write what is often cited as the first cyborg sex novel, Le Surmâle ( The Supermale ), which is partly a satire on the Symbolist ideal of self-transcendence.

*" Antwerp " ( novel ), by Roberto Bolaño