10 October 2016

Brisbane

[briz-beyn, -buh n]

noun

1. a port in E Australia, the capital of Queensland: founded in 1824 as a penal settlement in what was then New South Wales; vast agricultural hinterland. Pop: 1 508 161 (2001). Named after Major General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet, GCB GCH FRS FRSE (23 July 1773 – 27 January 1860), a Scottish soldier, administrator, and astronomer who was appointed by the Duke of Wellington to be the governor of New South Wales from 1821 to 1825. (Dictionary.com, Wikipedia.com)

2. Brisbane Name Meaning – Scottish: breaker of bones. Nickname from Old French bris(er) ‘to break’ + Old English ban ‘bone’. The sense of this hybrid name is not clear; it may have been used for someone crippled by a broken bone or for a violent man who broke other people’s bones. Ironic for a penal settlement to be named after a person whose name has this meaning. (Ancestry.com)

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Today’s quote

Do you think God stays in heaven because he too, lives in fear of what he’s created here on Earth.

– Dr Romero (Steve Buscemi), Spy Kids II – Island of Lost Dreams

On this day

10 October – World Day Against the Death Penalty.

10 October 1963 – death of Roy Cazaly, Australian Rules football legend, known for his high marks and ruck-work. Immortalised in the song, ‘Up there Cazaly‘, by The Two Man Band (Mike Brady & Peter Sullivan). Born 13 January 1893.

10 October 1963 – death of Édith Piaf, French singer. Born Édith Giovanna Gassion, born 19 December 1915.

10 October 1965 – the ‘Vinland Map’, is presented by Yale University, which claims it was the first known map of America, drawn in 1440 and based on Norseman Leif Eriksson’s discovery of the Americas 500 years before Columbus.