She frequently gave lectures and speeches, wearing elaborate costumes and calling herself a children's Dame Edna Everage.

Over the years many celebrities and performers made guest appearances on the show including John Farnham, Graham Kennedy, Nicole Kidman, Dame Edna Everage, Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Phyllis Diller, Debbie Reynolds, Kylie Minogue, Johnny O ' Keefe, Peter Allen, Lovelace Watkins, Normie Rowe, Russell Morris, Billy Thorpe, Demis Roussos, Jason Donovan, John Paul Young, Kamahl, Renee Geyer, Denise Drysdale, John Williamson, Ian ' Molly ' Meldrum and Denis Walter, and bands including Sherbet, The Mixtures, The Four Kinsmen, Little River Band, The Reels and even The Wombles!

In 2000, Australian actor Barry Humphries won the Special Tony Award for a live theatrical event at the 55th Annual Tony Awards for Dame Edna: The Royal Tour, Dame Edna being his " Melbourne Housewife " alter-ego who was recently on Broadway in the show All About Me.

The term is also used imprecisely by commentators on modern society such as Robin Leach in Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous and parodists such as Dame Edna Everage.

In recent years, Gibb sang the vocals to the opening titles to the British ITV show The Dame Edna Treatment.

Dame Edna Everage, a comic creation of Barry Humphries, debuted in Melbourne in the 1950s and has featured at the West End theatre | West End and Broadway theatre | Broadway.

His satirical stage creations-notably Dame Edna and later Les Patterson-became Australian cultural icons.

Popular international exports have included: Dame Edna Everage, Clive James, Geoffrey Robertson and The Wiggles.

* A recording with Dame Edna Everage as narrator and performed by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Lanchbery ( Naxos Records, 1997 ).

He is best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and " gigastar ", and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to the Court of St. James's.

Humphries ' characters, especially Dame Edna Everage, have brought him international renown, and he has appeared in numerous films, stage productions and television shows.

Originally conceived as a dowdy Moonee Ponds housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Edna has evolved over four decades to become a satire of stardom, the gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, egomaniacal, internationally feted Housewife Gigastar, Dame Edna Everage.

His credits include the UK sex comedy Percy's Progress ( 1974 ), David Baker's The Great Macarthy ( 1975 ) and Bruce Beresford's Barry McKenzie Holds His Own ( 1974 ) in which Edna was made a Dame by then Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

There can be few ( if any ) comedians who can boast the career longevity he has enjoyed with Dame Edna, whose popularity shows no signs of flagging after fifty years.

* A Night with Dame Edna ( 1979 ), for which he won an Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance

* An Evening's Intercourse with Dame Edna ( 1982 )

* Dame Edna Live: The First Last Tour toured the US in 2009

The tour includes appearances by Dame Edna, Sir Les Patterson and Sandy Stone, including a new character ' Gerard Patterson ', Les ' brother and pedophilic Catholic priest.

Dame Edna Everage on a billboard.

Dame Edna Everage is undoubtedly one of the most enduring Australian comic characters of all time, and one of the longest-lived comedic characterisations ever devised.

Dame Edna is notable as one of the few satirical characters to make a successful transition from stage to TV without losing popularity in either genre.

* 1981: An Audience with Dame Edna Everage

* The man behind Dame Edna Everage ( BBC News )

The character shared Dame Edna's voice and style and was explicitly listed in the opening credits as being played by Dame Edna Everage ( although Barry Humphries received a credit in the closing credits ).

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* WITHOUT WALLS: J ' Accuse: Dame Edna Everage ( 1993 )

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lang, Sarah, Duchess of York, Paul Schrader, Peter Sellers, Peter Kay, Paul McCartney, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Clarkson, Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne, Julie Andrews, Dame Edna Everage, Helen Mirren, Tommy Cooper, Judi Dench, Naomi Campbell, Harold Wilson, Tony Blair, Olivia Newton-John, Billie Piper, David Tennant, Denzel Washington, Gillian Anderson, Clint Eastwood, Sandra Bullock, Joan Rivers, Bonnie Tyler and Buddy Rich.

* University of Western Australia and University of Notre Dame Australia – Rural Clinical School of Western Australia

In 1931, Transcontinental & Western Air Flight 599 crashed ten miles south of Cottonwood Falls near the community of Bazaar, killing all eight on board, including Notre Dame University football coach Knute Rockne.

In addition, Chao has received 34 honorary doctorate degrees from the following schools: Villanova University, St. John's University, Sacred Heart University, Drexel University, Niagara University, Thomas More College ( Kentucky ), Bellarmine University, University of Toledo, University of Louisville, Goucher College, Kentucky Wesleyan College, University of Notre Dame, Miami Dade College, University of South Carolina, Campbellsville University, Depauw University, St. Mary's College, Regent University, Northern Alabama University, Centre College, Fu Jen Catholic University, Wingate University, Northern Kentucky University, Catholic University of America, Elmira College, Agnes Scott College, Marquette University, Sweet Briar College, Murray State University, Nyack College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, St. Catharine College, Western Kentucky University

The Juris Doctor is now offered at a number of Australian Universities including: Australian National University, University of Canberra, Bond University, Monash University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, University of Notre Dame Australia, RMIT University, University of Southern Queensland, University of Sydney, University of Technology, Sydney, University of Western Australia, and Murdoch University.

* " Linwood ", written and performed by Jon Chandler on The Grand Dame of the Rockies – Songs of the Hotel Colorado and the Roaring Fork Valley ; winner of the 2009 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Song

The University of Notre Dame Australia ( UNDA ) is a private Roman Catholic university established in 1989 in the Western Australian port city of Fremantle,.

The University of Notre Dame Australia opened in Western Australia in December 1989 and now has over 9000 students on three campuses in Fremantle, Sydney and Broome.

Western explorer Dame Alexandra was said to have created a tulpa of a monk whilst studying in Tibet.

* On March 31, 1931, Notre Dame Coach Knute Rockne was killed on Transcontinental & Western Air Flight 599 from Kansas City to Los Angeles when the Fokker Trimotor broke up in a storm over Bazaar, Kansas.

Dame Raigh Edith Roe DBE ( born 12 December 1922, Western Australia ) has been a member of the Australian Country Women's Association since 1941 ; she became Branch President, Western Australian State President and, eventually, National President of the CWA.

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

The rhythmic modes of Notre Dame Polyphony were the first coherent system of rhythmic notation developed in Western music since antiquity.

In 2004 Weigel wrote an article in Commentary magazine, entitled " The Cathedral and the Cube ", in which he used the contrast between the modernist Grande Arche, and the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, both located in Paris, France, to illustrate what he called a loss of " civilizational morale " in Western Europe, which he tied to the secular tyrannies of the 20th century, along with, more recently, plummeting birthrates and Europe's refusal to recognize the Christian roots of its culture.

In 1968 Tangney was the first woman born in Western Australia to be appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

In addition to its full time degree-seeking students, the University also hosts study-abroad students from select colleges across the United States including: St. Norbert College, Saint Mary's College of California, Cornell University, University of Wisconsin, University of Michigan, Connecticut College, Marquette University, Hiram College, University of Denver, Emory University, Western Michigan University, Grand Valley State University, Michigan State University, Villanova University, American University, University of Portland, University of Alabama, University of Dayton, Saint Joseph's University, St. Mary's University, Bryant University, Stonehill College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Wesley College, Northeastern University, University of the Incarnate Word, and the University of Notre Dame.

The hospital is closely associated with the nearby University of Western Australia as well as Curtin University, Notre Dame University, and Edith Cowan University.

Hanratty attended St. Paul Catholic School and Butler Senior High School in Western Pennsylvania, before attending the University of Notre Dame where he was a three year starter and was twice an All-American, along with being a Heisman Trophy candidate.

Dame Alexandra Hasluck, AD, alternatively named Lady Hasluck ( 26 August 1908 – 18 June 1993 ), was an author and social historian in Western Australia.

Dame Alexandra and Sir Paul Hasluck are joint eponyms of the Western Australian Federal House of Representatives Division of Hasluck.