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“I did but see her passing by and yet I’ll love her till I die” was reportedly stated by Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies during and Australian visit by the Queen in 1963.
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A ”Pampered Miss Piggy” was the British tabloid press’ description of Queen Elizabeth’s grand-daughter Princess Beatrice in 2008.
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Dennis Lillee, Australian fast bowler during the Centenary test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1977, was refused an autograph by Queen Elizabeth II.
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Altissimo is a musical term that means vey high.
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When Peter Phillips Queen Elizabeth II’s grandson married in 2008 his bride was required to renounce Catholicism.
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Australia’s second oldest city is Hobart, Tasmania established in 1803. The oldest being Sydney established in 1788.
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At dawn on 18 March 1910, famous American escapologist Harry Houdini made the first Australian powered, controlled, sustained flight of an aircraft in Australia at Plumpton Dam, Diggers Rest.
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Irn-Bru is a Scottish carbonated soft drink, long advertised as "Scotland's other national drink".
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The letters AM and PM stand for Ante Meridien and Post Meridien being Latin for before noon or after noon.
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Tenerife, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote are islands in The Canary Islands.
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