Early European settlers, unfamiliar with the sights and sounds of the island continent's peculiar fauna, regarded the bunyip as one more strange Australian animal and sometimes attributed unfamiliar animal calls or cries to it.

* Early in his career, he hit 100 runs against the West Indies in 78 minutes, the third fastest Test century of all time ( in terms of minutes at the crease, not balls faced ) and the second fastest by an Australian.

Early in the 21st century, demand outpaced supply and there was a shortage of Chardonnay grapes which prompted Australian winemakers to introduce new blending partners like Sémillon ( known as " SemChard ") and Colombard.

Early British settlers introduced Western culture | Western stock and crops and Australian agriculture now produces an abundance of fresh produce.

Early Australian ballads sing of the harsh ways of life of the epoch and of such people and events as bushrangers, swagmen, drovers, stockmen and shearers.

Early hotel closing times began being wound back from the 1950s, with the last Australian state, South Australia, doing so in 1967.

Early on, trainers began to recognize which breeds produced dogs most appropriate for guide work ; today, Golden Retrievers, Labradors, and German Shepherds are most likely to be chosen by guide dog facilities, although other breeds, such as Yorkshire Terriers, Standard Poodles, Collies, Border Collies, Australian Shepherds, Papillons, Vizslas, Dobermans, Rottweilers, Boxers, and Airedale Terriers, may also be selected.

Early British settlers introduced Western culture | Western stock and crops and Australian agriculture now produces an abundance of fresh produce.

Early British settlers brought familiar meats and crops with them from Europe and these remain important in the Australian diet.

Early in 1989, Muster became the first Austrian to reach the semifinals of the Australian Open and, shortly after that, the first Austrian to be ranked in the world's top 10.

Early concerns arose about the large cost of staging the Games, with projected costs likely to be over 1 billion Australian dollars and a high likelihood the Victorian taxpayer would have to cover the expense.

She is a professor at the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at University of Western Australia, and the UNICEF Australian Ambassador for Early Childhood Development.

Early in August, General Archibald Wavell was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Command, and he sent reinforcements which had been sought by Wilson, initially the Indian 4th Infantry Division and advanced elements of 6th Australian Division and, as the build up at Mersa Matruh continued, Richard O ' Connor and his staff at 7th Infantry Division in Palestine were moved to Egypt to reinforce Wilson's command structure there.

Early molecular research in the late 1980s and early 1990s revealed that the fantails belong to a large group of mainly Australasian birds known as the Corvida parvorder comprising many tropical and Australian passerines.

Finally, several undescribed microbiotheres have been reported from the Early Eocene Tingamarra Local Fauna in Northeastern Australia ; if this is indeed the case, then these Australian fossils have important implications for our understanding of marsupial evolution and biogeography.

Early in 1975, after appearing at the fourth Sunbury Pop Festival, The Dingoes received a phone call from expatriate Australian roadie Billy McCartney, who had seen them when visiting from the United States, where he had established himself as a tour manager for Elvis Presley and Rod Stewart.

Early 1942 he commanded the Combined Striking Force of ABDACOM, American British Dutch Australian Command.

Early to recognise the need for Australian Federation, when he saw that it had really become possible to achieve, he fought strongly for it, at a time when many leading politicians in New South Wales were fearful of its effect on their colony.

Early on 19 April the refueled and now heavily armed Georgette returned and came alongside the whaler, demanding the surrender of the prisoners and attempting to herd the ship back into Australian waters.

The lineage leading to the Australian arowanas diverged from that leading to the Asian arowanas about 140 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous.

Early media reports of the Columbine High School massacre initially associated the perpetrators ( Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold ) with members of the " Trenchcoat Mafia ," a group of outcasts who allegedly wore conspicuous black Australian oilcloth dusters.

Genetic studies have confirmed this hypothesis, showing that the ancestor of the Asian arowanas diverged from the ancestor of the Australian arowanas, S. jardinii and S. leichardti, about 140 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous period.

Another was Tom Vernon Garrett, the grandfather of former Midnight Oil lead singer and current Australian Minister for School Education, Early Childhood and Youth, Peter Garrett.

Early in 2010, Knowles traveled to Australia to work with Australian rock band, Midnight Juggernauts on her third studio album Knowles plans to release the album in summer as revealed on her official Twitter account in 2009 She also revealed on her Twitter account that she rented a house in Santa Barbara, California to get into a certain state of mind while writing and making music On 7 May 2010, Knowles made a guest appearance on the popular children show, Yo Gabba Gabba!

Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian ventured to the west to form alliances to enable for the eventual free movement of Chinese goods to the west ; as early as the first century BC, ivory was moved along the Northern Silk Road for consumption by western nations.

Early Leticia history mentions a Portuguese explorer who, after becoming lost on the Amazon, died of starvation at the present site of Leticia with the rest of his crew.

Early explorer John C. Fremont

* Conceptions of the Afterlife in Early Civilizations: Universalism, Constructivism and Near-Death Experience by Gregory Shushan, New York & London, Continuum, 2009.

Early researchers of clairvoyance included William Gregory ( chemist ), Gustav Pagenstecher, and Rudolf Tischner.

* Dodds, Gregory D. Exploiting Erasmus: The Erasmian Legacy and Religious Change in Early Modern England ( 2009 )

* A. Terian, Patriotism And Piety In Armenian Christianity: The Early Panegyrics On Saint Gregory, St Vladimir ’ s Seminary Press, 2005

* Early Church Fathers: Gregory of Nyssa

* Mann, Horace K., The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages, Volume 1: The Popes Under the Lombard Rule, from St Gregory I ( the Great ) to Leo III, Part 1 ( London, 1912 )

Old historical literature sometimes claims the Basques took control of the whole of Novempopulania in the Early Middle Ages, founding its claims on the testimony of Gregory of Tours, on the etymological link between the words " Basque " and " Gascon " – both derived from " Vascones " or " Wasconia ", the latter being used to name the whole of Novempopulania.

Early in 1953, George Nelson, who had a drinking problem, left the Orioles, and was replaced by John " Gregory " Carroll, formerly of another Baltimore group, the Four Buddies.

Early Muslim sources mention that the army of Gregory had used chains to link together its foot-soldiers, who had all taken an oath of death.

* Nagy, Gregory, " Early Greek Views of Poets and Poetry ," in: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol.

The Early Middle Ages in the West includes the work of Gregory the Great and Bede, as well as developments in Celtic Christianity and Anglo-Saxon Christianity, and comes to fulfillment in the work of Johannes Scotus Eriugena and the Carolingian Renaissance.

Early works by Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Shirley Clarke, Gregory Markopoulos, Jonas Mekas, Willard Maas, Marie Menken, Curtis Harrington and Sidney Peterson followed in a similar vein.

Tall spined vertebrae from the Early Cretaceous of England were once considered to be very similar to those of Acrocanthosaurus, and in 1988 Gregory S. Paul named them as a second species of the genus, A. altispinax.

* John A. Taylor British Empiricism and Early Political Economy: Gregory King's 1696 Estimates of National Wealth and Population, Greenwood Press, 2005.

) Management, including Colonels owners Joseph and Mamie Gregory, ordered coach Gene Rhodes to play Early in a game.

* A. Terian, Patriotism And Piety In Armenian Christianity: The Early Panegyrics On Saint Gregory, St Vladimir ’ s Seminary Press, 2005