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Aileen Palmer, the Glossary

Aileen Palmer (6 April 1915 – 21 December 1988) was a British Australian poet and diarist.^[1]

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Australian LGBT poets
Australian anti-war activists
Australian people of the Spanish Civil War
Australian writers with disabilities
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Amphetamine

Amphetamine (contracted from alpha-methylphenethylamine) is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), narcolepsy, and obesity.

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Anglo-Celtic Australians

Anglo-Celtic Australians is a contested ancestral grouping of Australians whose ancestors originate wholly or partially in the British Isles - predominantly in England (including Cornish), Ireland, Scotland and Wales, as well as the Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Anti-racism

Anti-racism encompasses a range of ideas and political actions which are meant to counter racial prejudice, systemic racism, and the oppression of specific racial groups.

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Aragon

Aragon (Spanish and Aragón; Aragó) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography

The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's history.

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Australian National University

The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university and member of the Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia.

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Ballarat East, Victoria

Ballarat East is a suburb of Ballarat in Victoria, Australia.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain.

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Battle of Brunete

The Battle of Brunete (6–25 July 1937), fought west of Madrid, was a Republican attempt to alleviate the pressure exerted by the Nationalists on the capital and on the north during the Spanish Civil War.

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Bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood that each last from days to weeks.

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British undergraduate degree classification

The British undergraduate degree classification system is a grading structure used for undergraduate degrees or bachelor's degrees and integrated master's degrees in the United Kingdom.

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Caliban

Caliban, son of the witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

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Caloundra

Caloundra is a coastal town in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

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Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia.

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Communist Party of Australia

The Communist Party of Australia (CPA), known as the Australian Communist Party (ACP) from 1944 to 1951, was an Australian communist party founded in 1920.

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Dandenong Ranges

The Dandenong Ranges (commonly just The Dandenongs) are a set of low mountain ranges in Victoria, Australia, approximately east of the state capital Melbourne.

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David Martin (poet)

David Martin (22 December 1915 – 1 July 1997), born Lajos or Ludwig Detsinyi, into a Jewish family in Hungary (then part of Austria-Hungary), was an Australian novelist, poet, playwright, journalist, editor, literary reviewer and lecturer. Aileen Palmer and David Martin (poet) are Australian people of the Spanish Civil War.

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Egon Kisch

Egon Erwin Kisch (29 April 1885 – 31 March 1948) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak writer and journalist, who wrote in German.

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Electroconvulsive therapy

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or electroshock therapy (EST) is a psychiatric treatment where a generalized seizure (without muscular convulsions) is electrically induced to manage refractory mental disorders.

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Extraversion and introversion

Extraversion and introversion are a central trait dimension in human personality theory.

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Field hospital

A field hospital is a temporary hospital or mobile medical unit that takes care of casualties on-site before they can be safely transported to more permanent facilities.

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Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish military general who led the Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and thereafter ruled over Spain from 1939 to 1975 as a dictator, assuming the title Caudillo.

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Glucose

Glucose is a sugar with the molecular formula.

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Hanoi

Hanoi (Hà Nội) is the capital and second-most populous city of Vietnam.

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Hecate (journal)

Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation is an Australian feminist academic journal, founded in 1975.

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Helen Palmer (publisher)

Helen Gwynneth Palmer (9 May 1917 – 6 March 1979) was a prominent Australian socialist publisher after the Khrushchev Secret Speech of 1956 and the USSR's invasion of Hungary of the same year, which caused many leftists to leave the Communist Party of Australia.

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Helene Scheu-Riesz

Helene Scheu-Riesz (18 September 1880 – 8 January 1970) was an Austrian women's rights activist, pacifist, children's writer and publisher.

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High Commission of Australia, London

The High Commission of Australia in London is the diplomatic mission of Australia in the United Kingdom.

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Ho Chi Minh

italic (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), colloquially known as Uncle Ho (Bác Hồ) or just Uncle (Bác), and by other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary, nationalist, and politician.

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Insulin (medication)

As a medication, insulin is any pharmaceutical preparation of the protein hormone insulin that is used to treat high blood glucose.

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Isabel Brown

Isabel Brown (6 December 1894 – 22 October 1984) was a British communist activist.

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Malvern, Victoria

Malvern is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Stonnington local government area.

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Marseille

Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

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Meanjin

Meanjin, formerly Meanjin Papers and Meanjin Quarterly, is an Australian literary magazine with a reputation for democratic left-of-centre politics, as against the right-wing stance of its rival Quadrant.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Mental disorder

A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.

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Modernist poetry

Modernist poetry refers to poetry written between 1890 and 1950 in the tradition of modernist literature, but the dates of the term depend upon a number of factors, including the nation of origin, the particular school in question, and the biases of the critic setting the dates.

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Myopia

Myopia, also known as near-sightedness and short-sightedness, is an eye disease where light from distant objects focuses in front of, instead of on, the retina.

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National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief

The National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief (NJCSR) was a British voluntary association formed at the end of 1936, intended to co-ordinate relief efforts to the victims of the Spanish Civil War.

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National Library of Australia

The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act 1960 for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people", thus functioning as a national library.

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Nettie Palmer

Janet Gertrude "Nettie" Palmer (née Higgins) (18 August 1885 – 19 October 1964) was an Australian poet, essayist and Australia's leading literary critic of her day. Aileen Palmer and Nettie Palmer are 20th-century Australian women writers.

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Non-binary gender

Non-binary and genderqueer are umbrella terms for gender identities that are outside the male/female gender binary.

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Overland (magazine)

Overland is an Australian literary and cultural magazine, established in 1954 and published quarterly in print as well as online.

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Peace movement

A peace movement is a social movement which seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or wars) or minimizing inter-human violence in a particular place or situation.

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People's Olympiad

The People's Olympiad (Catalan: Olimpíada Popular, Spanish: Olimpiada Popular) was a planned international multi-sport event that was intended to take place in 1936 in Barcelona, Catalonia within the Spanish Republic.

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Post-traumatic stress disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental and behavioral disorder that develops from experiencing a traumatic event, such as sexual assault, warfare, traffic collisions, child abuse, domestic violence, or other threats on a person's life or well-being.

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Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne

Presbyterian Ladies' College, Melbourne (PLC), is an independent, private, Presbyterian, day and boarding school for girls, located in Burwood, an eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Reginald Spencer Ellery

Reginald Spencer Ellery (1897–1955), was a pioneer in the practice of psychiatry in Melbourne, Australia.

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Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by reoccurring episodes of psychosis that are correlated with a general misperception of reality.

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Sexual inversion (sexology)

Sexual inversion is a theory of homosexuality popular primarily in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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South East Queensland

South East Queensland (SEQ) is a bio-geographical, metropolitan, political and administrative region of the state of Queensland in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million people out of the state's population of 5.1 million.

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Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil Española) was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.

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Spanish coup of July 1936

The Spanish coup of July 1936(Golpe de Estado de España de julio de 1936 or, among the rebels, Alzamiento Nacional) was a military uprising that was intended to overthrow the Spanish Second Republic but precipitated the Spanish Civil War; Nationalists fought against Republicans for control of Spain.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Palmer

Also known as Aileen Yvonne Palmer.

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See also

Australian LGBT poets

Australian anti-war activists

Australian people of the Spanish Civil War

Australian writers with disabilities

Poets with disabilities

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