Australian soldiers, sailors, and airmen take part in an impromptu game of end-to-end Australian rules football in Central Australia in 1944.

:* Central Coast Rays, a rugby union club playing in the Australian Rugby Championship

:* Central Coast Rhinos, an ice hockey club playing in the Australian Ice Hockey League

Originally built for the Central Coast Bears team in the NRL rugby league competition ( to this day, the seats are arranged to say ' Go Bears '), since 2005 it is now the home of the Central Coast Mariners A-League association football team and was the home venue of the Central Coast Rays rugby union Australian Rugby Championship team

* David Fairleigh – Former Rugby League forward, 1994 Rothman's Medal winner, NSW & Australian representative player, North Sydney Bears " Team Of The Century " second-rower, current coach of the Central Coast Bears

Current records at the Australian Museum show that Beazley ’ s wig, described as “ a cap composed of human hair from the headwaters of the U – at River, Central Mountains, Mandated Territory of NG ”, was lodged on 31 January 1930, presumably on his quick visit to Sydney after the first expedition.

In the late 1980s Central TV acquired the Australian soap opera Prisoner, which was produced between 1979 and 1986.

Before 1980, a section of the Commonwealth Railways Central Australian line passed along the western side of the Simpson Desert.

Throughout 2010 and 2011 a number of authorities around the world including the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Bank of Namibia and the Central Bank of Lesotho have declared TVI Express to be a pyramid scheme.

Before its move, ONA had been a sub-tenant in the Central Office building of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation ( ASIO ) in Russell, Canberra.

In Australian Aboriginal mythology, specifically of the Arrernte people of Central Australia, Mangar-kunjer-kunja is a lizard god who created humans.

They believe that their culture has always existed in the Central Australian landscape and was created at the beginning of time by ancestral beings.

While the Central Australian environment may at first seem stark-a barren landscape supporting spectacular rock formations-closer inspection reveals it as a complex ecosystem, full of life.

The three terrestrial species are Nuytsia floribunda-the Western Australian Christmas tree, Atkinsonia ligustrina-a rare shrub of the Blue Mountains of Australia, and the Central to South American species of Gaiadendron punctatum.

Unlike the rest of New South Wales, Broken Hill ( and the surrounding region ) observes Australian Central Standard Time, UTC + 9: 30, a time zone it shares with South Australia and the Northern Territory.

* Central Coast Mariners FC, an Australian professional football ( soccer ) club based on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia

ABC News reported on 17 June 2009 that a study has been carried out by environmental scientist Professor Brendan Mackey of the Australian National University which identified that mountain ash forests in Victoria ’ s Central Highlands as the best in the world at locking up carbon.

* Great Central Mines, a defunct Australian mining company

Most tribes had circumcision and scarification as part of the male initiation rituals, while many Central Australian tribes also practiced subincision.

The site is known as Mparntwe to its original inhabitants, the Arrernte, who have lived in the Central Australian desert in and around what is now Alice Springs for thousands of years.

Tertiary education providers include the Central Gippsland Institute of TAFE which operates several campuses in Morwell as well as Morwell Technical College, College of Australian Training and Kurnai College.

The only other significant non-heritage operator is the tourist oriented Taieri Gorge Railway in Otago, which runs regular passenger trains on part of the former Otago Central Railway and some on the Main South Line.

The indigenous stencil artists of Central Queensland, such as those who created sites such as the Art Gallery and Cathedral Cave in Carnarvon Gorge, are regarded by some researchers as the best in the world.

At around this time, the first plantings of Pinot noir in the Central Otago wine region occurred in the Kawarau Gorge near Bannockburn.

Meadows Canyon-Curran-Wildcat Canyon loop-A 1. 43 mile steady, but not steep, climb from Lone Oak Road which is just off Central Park Dr. At the top, Meadows Canyon connects with Curran trail which meanders downhill to Wildcat Gorge trail.

The Central and Western massifs are separated by the deep Cares Gorge ( Garganta del Cares ), with the village of Caín at its head.

It is the terminus of the Taieri Gorge Railway, and the start of the Otago Central Rail Trail.

It flows through one of the largest and most gorgeous gorges in Central Europe, the Rappenloch Gorge, down to Dornbirn, cuts through the town and the meanders off over a broad meadow landscape, the Lauterach Ried, finally flowing, parallel and quite close to the mouth of the Rhine, into Lake Constance.

The Rindomo Gorge separates the Central Range from Southern Taygetos.

This is known for the Taieri Gorge Railway, which follows a route into Central Otago through it.

The area is largely uninhabited ; the main indication of human activity is the Taieri Gorge Railway, which preserves the route of the former Otago Central Railway that runs along the steep-sided valley of the Taieri River.

Its route was projected to cross the Taieri Plain and follow the Taieri Gorge upstream to the Strath Taieri which it would then traverse from south to north as the main route to Central Otago.

Bouldercombe Gorge is situated near the small town of Bouldercombe, near Rockhampton in Central Queensland, Australia.

The New York Times described Diosso Gorge as " a stunning gorge of plunging, pink cliffs draped with green Central African jungle.

* 1940 – Pennsylvania Central Airlines Trip 19 crashes near Lovettsville, Virginia.

Planned and actual territorial changes in Eastern and Central Europe 1939 – 1940 ( click to enlarge )

Planned and actual territorial changes in Central Europe 1939 – 1940

In 1940 A. N. Tucker published evidence linking five of the six branches of Central Sudanic alongside his more explicit proposal for East Sudanic.

He became a member of the Communist Party in 1939 and was First Secretary of the Central Committee of Komsomol in the Soviet Karelo-Finnish Republic from 1940 to 1944.

Central Places in Southern Germany, 1966 ), soon followed by Tord Palander's ( 1935 ) Beiträge zur Standortstheorie ; August Lösch's Die räumliche Ordnung der Wirtschaft ( Verlag von Gustav Fischer, Jena, 1940 ; 2nd rev.

He returned to active duty July 1, 1940, as a major and assistant district supervisor of the Central Air Corps Procurement District at Indianapolis, Indiana, and Detroit, Michigan, where he worked with large auto manufacturers on the conversion of their plants for production of planes.

He was going to Nivala to his farm after the farewell ceremonies on the evening of December 19, 1940, when he collapsed and died at the Helsinki Central Railway Station, before a guard of honor and in the arms of his adjutant.

* The Land Reform of 1919 – 1940: Lithuania and the Countries of East and Central Europe

Freud briefly studied at the Central School of Art in London, and from 1939 with greater success at Cedric Morris ' East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in Dedham, relocated in 1940 at Benton End near Hadleigh.

As part of the 1935 – 1940 " New Works Programme " of the London Passenger Transport Board the majority of the Woodford to Ilford loop was to be transferred to form the eastern extensions of the Central line.

On the afternoon of August 31, 1940, Lundeen was a passenger on Flight 19 of Pennsylvania Central Airlines, flying from Washington to Detroit.

He was elevated to the Central Committee and its Politburo in 1940, and remained on the Politburo until August 1966.

) Completed by late 1940, the Central Library opened to the public on February 1, 1941.

By 1940, the Security police had proved extremely successful in dismantling the KKE organisation ; not only had it imprisoned the leadership, but it created a fake series of Rizospastis, the Central Committee newspaper.

On 16 November 1940, Zachariadis repudiated the line of his first letter in a second letter where he accused the Greek Army of waging a " fascist " and " imperialistic war " and appealed to the USSR for peaceful intervention, thus aligning his position with that of the " Old Central Committee ".

On 7 December 1940, the " Old Central Committee " issued a manifesto addressed " to all the workers and public servants, to all soldiers, sailors and airmen, to patriot officers, to the mothers, fathers, wives and children of the fighters and the workers of all neighboring countries ", in which it describes the war as a game of the imperialist powers, headed by the British.

In the 20th century many Jews arrived in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Harbin during those cities ' periods of economic expansion in the first decades of the century, as well as for the purpose of seeking refuge from anti-Semitic pogroms in Russian Empire ( the early 1900s ), the communist revolution and civic war in Russia ( 1917 – 1918 ), and anti-Semitic Nazi policy in Central Europe, chiefly in Germany and Austria ( 1937 – 1940 ), and the last wave from Poland and other Eastern European countries ( the early 1940s ).

In the same year, freight traffic through Verney Junction was substantially diminished by the construction on 14 September 1940 of a connecting spur between the LNWR and GCR lines at Calvert which enabled freight from the Oxford-Bletchley route to work south over the Great Central Main Line without having to pass over the Verney Junction-Quainton Road section.

Milton Bearden ( born April, 1940 ) is a retired Central Intelligence Agency officer, author and film consultant.

The Central Railway of Brazil, however, ordered seventeen narrow gauge ( metre gauge ) 2-10-4 locomotives, ten from Baldwin which were delivered in 1940, and another seven from the American Locomotive Company which were delivered in 1947.

Trafficante began to assume control of the Mafia in Tampa, becoming the new boss of the Antinori family in October 1940, and kept control the criminal rackets in the Central Florida area until his death in 1954.

Soviet and German military and political advances in Central and eastern Europe 1939 – 1940

A training establishment for parachute troops was set up at RAF Ringway near Manchester on 21 June 1940 and named the Central Landing Establishment, and the initial 500 volunteers began training for airborne operations.