A late ( 1890s ) reference to the urban legend of the murdering barber can be found in the poem by the Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson — The Man from Ironbark.

The celebrated horseman and bush poet Lt. Harry " Breaker " Morant and Lt. Peter Handcock were found guilty, sentenced to death, and shot by firing squad at Pietersburg on 27 February 1902.

The lyrics of Australia's best known folk song, " Waltzing Matilda ", were written by the bush poet Banjo Paterson in 1895.

Thomas Henry Kendall ( 18 April 18411 August 1882 ) was a nineteenth century Australian author and bush poet, who was particulary known for his poems and tales set in a natural environment setting.

" The Man from Snowy River " is a poem by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson.

Historian Neville Locker supports this theory, adding that a prior poem had been written about McKeahnie by bush poet Barcroft Boake and that the story had been recounted by a Mrs Hassle to a crowd that included Paterson.

Notable citizens originating from Narrandera include the Governor of New South Wales Marie Bashir ; Australian Rules footballer, Tim Ruffles, who plays for the Fremantle Football Club ; Daniel Christian ( Australian Cricketer ); Prima ballerina Kathleen Gorham ; and Patrick Hartigan ( a Catholic priest, poet and author who used the pen name, " John O ' Brien "): the bush ethos celebrated by Hartigan in his writings is commemorated in the annual John O ' Brien Bush Festival held in the town.

Morant settled in outback Queensland, and over the next 15 years, working in Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia, the charismatic roustabout made a name for himself as a hard-drinking, womanising bush poet and gained renown as a fearless and expert horseman.

* Banjo Paterson ( Andrew Barton " Banjo " Paterson ) ( 1864 – 1941 ), Australian bush poet

The school was named after Henry Lawson, the famous Australian bush poet.

Among the most notable bush lyricists was the poet Banjo Paterson ( 1864 – 1941 ).

Her sister, the poet and author Ada Verdun Howell, lived with her for many years on Stockyard Hill Rd, where they maintained a bush block famous for its kangaroo grass woodland.

Influenced by both the European masters and the Heidelberg School of Australian landscape art, he placed the central characters of the Bible within Australian bush scenery, as in his portrait of Adam and Eve, The Expulsion ( 1948 ).

Although himself an accomplished writer of songs, Dusty had a number of other songwriters, including Mack Cormack, Gordon Parsons, Stan Coster, and Kelly Dixon, who were typically short on formal education but big on personal experience of the Australian bush.

Although himself an accomplished writer of songs, Dusty had a number of other song writers including Mack Cormack, Gordon Parsons, Stan Coster and Kelly Dixon who were typically short on formal education but big on personal experience of the Australian bush.

Their debut single was the bush ballad, " Waltzing Matilda ", which appeared in November and reached the Melbourne top 40 singles chart.

After a stint as a bush governess, she got a job as a waitress at the Winter Garden tearooms in Melbourne.

Perhaps the best known bush band internationally, albeit in their later years with the influence of English folk rock bands like Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span, was the Bushwackers ( spelt without the " h " as in the earlier Bushwhackers Band of the 1950s ), who formed in Melbourne toured around the world and with their larrikin, outgoing style, song books, dance instruction books and records, contributed markedly to the spread of bush music and dancing, especially in Australia.

In recent years the emergence of bands such as The Currency ( Melbourne ), The Handsome Young Strangers ( Sydney ) and Sydney City Trash ( Sydney ) has moved bush music into rock and roll venues and major festival stages, with a blended style that includes rock drums and guitars whilst combining with Celtic influences.

I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.

Finally, however, the arrangements were made and we drove out into the bush in a Land Rover.

And so, after a flight southeast to Savannakhet, we found ourselves bouncing along in a Jeep right behind the Land-Rover of Prince Boun Oum of Champassak, a tall man of Churchillian mien in a bush jacket and a ten-gallon hat from Texas.

Ulyate and Kearton climbed on toward the sound of the barking of the dogs and the sporadic roaring of the lion, till they came, out of breath, to the crest, and peering through the branches of a bush, this is what Ulyate saw: Jones who had apparently ( and actually had ) ridden up the nearly impassable hillside, sitting calmly on his horse within forty feet of a full-grown young lioness, who was crouched on a flat rock and seemed just about to charge him, while the dogs whirled around her.

It was falling over her head when a branch of a bush caught it and it fell in front of her on the rock.

When Jones too drew away, she returned to a thorn bush in the neck of land running into the gully, crouched low and waited as before.

There was room to make a quick dash past the bush and throw as you went.

For a year the boy had lived in the bush in a boxcar.

Plants are adapted to bush fires, which can stimulate flowering.

The climbing plants in the tropical forests are exceedingly luxuriant and the undergrowth or " bush " is extremely dense.

In 2008, psychology professor Benny Shanon published a controversial hypothesis that a brew analogous to Ayahuasca was heavily connected to early Judaism, and that the effects of this brew were responsible for some of the most significant events of Moses ' life, including his vision of the burning bush.

Alaska's bush airlines and air taxis serve many of the smaller and more isolated communities and villages in the regions.

Gardeners in frost-free or light frost areas will find that bay laurel seedlings planted in the ground easily grow into large trees, and taller ; but when kept pruned, it can thrive as a small bush.

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In some areas of Newfoundland, the custom of decorating the May bush, or bough, is also still extant.

* Joshua's vision of the " commander of Yahweh's army " ( 5: 13 – 15 ) is reminiscent of the divine revelation to Moses in the burning bush ( Ex.

During the Mau Mau Uprising in 1952, the poisonous latex of the African milk bush was used to kill cattle.

This makes the bush bean more practical for commercial production.

All American beans at that time were vine plants, " bush beans " having been bred only more recently.

Like many forest ungulates bongos are herbivorous browsers and feed on tree / bush leaves, bushes, vines, bark and pith of rotting trees, grasses / herbs, roots, cereals, shrubs and fruits.

The rhyming songs, poems and tales written in the form of ballads often relate to the itinerant and rebellious spirit of Australia in The Bush, and the authors and performers are often referred to as bush bards.

The 19th century was the golden age of bush ballads.

Bombardier's technological breakthrough in the design of bush vehicles came in the mid-1930s when he developed a drive system that revolutionized travel in snow and swampy conditions.

With the exceptions of the bush dog, raccoon dog and some domestic breeds, canids have relatively long legs and lithe bodies, adapted for chasing prey.

The picture on the photographic plate he developed showed Frances behind a bush in the foreground, on which four fairies appeared to be dancing.