Somerton Man, the Glossary
The Somerton Man was an unidentified man whose body was found on 1 December 1948 on the beach at Somerton Park, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.[1]
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175 relations: ABC News (Australia), ABC Television (Australian TV network), Adelaide, Adelaide railway station, Adjournment sine die, Anatomy, Army Club, Attorney-General of South Australia, Australian Army, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Government, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, Australian Story, Australian War Memorial, Autosome, Barbiturate, Barbour (company), Barr Smith Library, BBC News, BBC Radio 4, Biological anthropology, Birth name, Blacktown, Bryant & May, Bute, South Australia, Cardenolide, Cardiac glycoside, Caucasian race, Cedric Stanton Hicks, Christchurch, Cold case, Cold War, Colleen M. Fitzpatrick, Communism, Cryptography, Cuff, Darwin, Northern Territory, Department of Defence (Australia), Derek Abbott, Digoxin, Digoxin toxicity, DNA, Duodenum, Edward FitzGerald (poet), Electrical engineering, Embalming, Encryption, Esophagus, Featherstitch, Federal Bureau of Investigation, ... Expand index (125 more) »
- 1940s in Adelaide
- Crime in Adelaide
- December 1948 events in Australia
- Undeciphered historical codes and ciphers
- Unidentified decedents
ABC News (Australia)
ABC News, also known as ABC News and Current Affairs and overseas as ABC Australia, is a public news service produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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ABC Television (Australian TV network)
ABC Television is the general name for the national television services of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
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Adelaide
Adelaide (Tarntanya) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.
Adelaide railway station
Adelaide railway station is the central terminus of the Adelaide Metro railway system.
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Adjournment sine die
Adjournment sine die (from Latin "without a day") is the conclusion of a meeting by a deliberative assembly, such as a legislature or organizational board, without setting a day to reconvene.
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Anatomy
Anatomy is the branch of morphology concerned with the study of the internal structure of organisms and their parts.
Army Club
Army Club was a British brand of cigarettes, owned and manufactured by Cavanders Ltd of London.
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Attorney-General of South Australia
The attorney-general of South Australia is the Cabinet minister in the Government of South Australia who is responsible for that state's system of law and justice.
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Australian Army
The Australian Army is the principal land warfare force of Australia, a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.
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Australian Government
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or the Federal Government, is the national executive government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.
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Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) is the domestic intelligence and national security agency of the Commonwealth of Australia, responsible for the protection of the country and its citizens from espionage, sabotage, acts of foreign interference, politically motivated violence, terrorism and attacks on the national defence system.
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Australian Story
Australian Story is a national weekly current affairs and documentary style television series which is broadcast on ABC Television.
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Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) is a national war memorial and museum dedicated to all Australians who died during war.
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Autosome
An autosome is any chromosome that is not a sex chromosome.
Barbiturate
Barbiturates are a class of depressant drugs that are chemically derived from barbituric acid.
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Barbour (company)
J.Barbour & Sons,Limited, trading as Barbour, is an English luxury and lifestyle brand founded by John Barbour in 1894 that designs, manufactures and markets waxed cotton outerwear, ready-to-wear, footwear and accessories under the Barbour and Barbour International brands.
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Barr Smith Library
The Barr Smith Library is the main library of the University of Adelaide, situated in the centre of the North Terrace campus.
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC.
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Biological anthropology
Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their extinct hominin ancestors, and related non-human primates, particularly from an evolutionary perspective.
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Birth name
A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth.
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Blacktown
Blacktown is a suburb in the City of Blacktown local government area, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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Bryant & May
Bryant & May was a British match manufacturer, which today only exists as a brand name owned by Swedish Match.
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Bute, South Australia
Bute is a town in the Northern Yorke peninsula of South Australia, approximately east of Wallaroo and 24 kilometres west of Snowtown.
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Cardenolide
A cardenolide is a type of steroid.
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Cardiac glycoside
Cardiac glycosides are a class of organic compounds that increase the output force of the heart and decrease its rate of contractions by inhibiting the cellular sodium-potassium ATPase pump.
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Caucasian race
The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, Europid, or Europoid) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race.
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Cedric Stanton Hicks
Sir Cedric Stanton Hicks (2 June 1892 – 7 February 1976) was an Australian pharmacologist, physiologist and nutritionist.
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Christchurch
Christchurch (Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island and the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand, after Auckland.
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Cold case
A cold case is a crime, or a suspected crime, that has not yet been fully resolved and is not the subject of a current criminal investigation, but for which new information could emerge from new witness testimony, re-examined archives, new or retained material evidence, or fresh activities of a suspect.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Colleen M. Fitzpatrick
Colleen M. Fitzpatrick (born April 25, 1955) is an American forensic scientist, genealogist and entrepreneur.
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Communism
Communism (from Latin label) is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement, whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered around common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in the society based on need.
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Cryptography
Cryptography, or cryptology (from κρυπτός|translit.
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Cuff
A cuff is a layer of fabric at the lower edge of the sleeve of a garment (shirt, coat, jacket, etc.) at the wrist, or at the ankle end of a trouser leg.
Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin (Larrakia) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia.
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Department of Defence (Australia)
Defence Australia is a department of the Government of Australia charged with the responsibility to defend Australia and its national interests.
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Derek Abbott
Derek Abbott (born 3 May 1960) is a British-Australian physicist and electronic engineer.
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Digoxin
Digoxin (better known as Digitalis), sold under the brand name Lanoxin among others, is a medication used to treat various heart conditions.
Digoxin toxicity
Digoxin toxicity, also known as digoxin poisoning, is a type of poisoning that occurs in people who take too much of the medication digoxin or eat plants such as foxglove that contain a similar substance.
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DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.
Duodenum
The duodenum is the first section of the small intestine in most higher vertebrates, including mammals, reptiles, and birds.
Edward FitzGerald (poet)
Edward FitzGerald or Fitzgerald (31 March 180914 June 1883) was an English poet and writer.
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Electrical engineering
Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.
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Embalming
Embalming is the art and science of preserving human remains by treating them (in its modern form with chemicals) to forestall decomposition.
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Encryption
In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming (more specifically, encoding) information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can decode.
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Esophagus
The esophagus (American English) or oesophagus (British English, see spelling differences; both;: (o)esophagi or (o)esophaguses), colloquially known also as the food pipe, food tube, or gullet, is an organ in vertebrates through which food passes, aided by peristaltic contractions, from the pharynx to the stomach.
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Featherstitch
Featherstitch or feather stitch and Cretan stitch or faggoting stitch are embroidery techniques made of open, looped stitches worked alternately to the right and left of a central rib.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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Footscray is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Maribyrnong local government area and its council seat.
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Formaldehyde
Formaldehyde (systematic name methanal) is an organic compound with the chemical formula and structure, more precisely.
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Gastritis
Gastritis is the inflammation of the lining of the stomach.
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Genealogical DNA test
A genealogical DNA test is a DNA-based genetic test used in genetic genealogy that looks at specific locations of a person's genome in order to find or verify ancestral genealogical relationships, or (with lower reliability) to estimate the ethnic mixture of an individual.
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Genetic genealogy
Genetic genealogy is the use of genealogical DNA tests, i.e., DNA profiling and DNA testing, in combination with traditional genealogical methods, to infer genetic relationships between individuals.
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Glenelg, South Australia
Glenelg is a beach-side suburb of the South Australian capital of Adelaide.
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Glucoside
A glucoside is a glycoside that is chemically derived from glucose.
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Goodwood, South Australia
Goodwood is an inner southern suburb of the city of Adelaide, South Australia.
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Gusset
In sewing, a gusset is a triangular or rhomboidal piece of fabric inserted into a seam to add breadth or reduce stress from tight-fitting clothing.
Hamburg
Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.
Henley Beach, South Australia
Henley Beach is a coastal suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Charles Sturt.
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Herald Sun
The Herald Sun is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the Murdoch owned News Corp. The Herald Sun primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia.
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Hypnotic
Hypnotic (from Greek Hypnos, sleep), or soporific drugs, commonly known as sleeping pills, are a class of (and umbrella term for) psychoactive drugs whose primary function is to induce sleep (or surgical anesthesiaWhen used in anesthesia to produce and maintain unconsciousness, "sleep" is metaphorical as there are no regular sleep stages or cyclical natural states; patients rarely recover from anesthesia feeling refreshed and with renewed energy.
Hypodontia
Hypodontia is defined as the developmental absence of one or more teeth excluding the third molars.
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Identity document
An identity document (also called ID or colloquially as papers) is any document that may be used to prove a person's identity.
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Incisor
Incisors (from Latin incidere, "to cut") are the front teeth present in most mammals.
Inquest
An inquest is a judicial inquiry in common law jurisdictions, particularly one held to determine the cause of a person's death.
Investigative genetic genealogy
Investigative genetic genealogy, also known as forensic genetic genealogy, is the emerging practice of utilizing genetic information from direct-to-consumer companies for identifying suspects or victims in criminal cases.
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Isdal Woman
The Isdal Woman (Isdalskvinnen, 1930–1945 – November 1970) is a placeholder name given to an unidentified woman who was found dead at Isdalen ("The Ice Valley") in Bergen, Norway, on 29 November 1970.
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John Burton Cleland
Sir John Burton Cleland CBE (22 June 1878 – 11 August 1971) was a renowned Australian naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist and ornithologist.
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John Harber Phillips
John Harber Phillips, AC, QC (18 October 19337 August 2009) was an Australian lawyer and judge who served as Chief Justice of Victoria from 1991 to 2003.
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John Rau
John Robert Rau SC (born 20 March 1959) is an Australian barrister and politician.
Juicy Fruit
Juicy Fruit is an American brand of chewing gum made by the Wrigley Company, a U.S. company that since 2008 has been a subsidiary of the privately held Mars, Incorporated.
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Kensitas Club (cigarette)
Kensitas Club (commonly shortened to Club), is a Scottish brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by Gallaher Group, a subsidiary of Japan Tobacco.
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Key (cryptography)
A key in cryptography is a piece of information, usually a string of numbers or letters that are stored in a file, which, when processed through a cryptographic algorithm, can encode or decode cryptographic data.
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King William Street, Adelaide
King William Street is the part of a major arterial road that traverses the CBD and centre of Adelaide, continuing as King William Road to the north of North Terrace and south of Greenhill Road; between South Terrace and Greenhill Road it is called Peacock Road.
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Lance corporal
Lance corporal is a military rank, used by many English-speaking armed forces worldwide, and also by some police forces and other uniformed organisations.
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Largs Bay, South Australia
Largs Bay is a suburb in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Lefevre Peninsula in the west of Adelaide about northwest of the Adelaide city centre.
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Largs North, South Australia
Largs North is a suburb in the Australian state of South Australia located on the Lefevre Peninsula in the west of Adelaide about northwest of the Adelaide city centre.
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Lieutenant
A lieutenant (abbreviated Lt., Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a junior commissioned officer rank in the armed forces of many nations, as well as fire services, emergency medical services, security services and police forces.
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List of prisons in New Zealand
There are eighteen adult prisons in New Zealand.
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List of unsolved deaths
This list of unsolved deaths includes well-known cases where.
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Lobe (anatomy)
In anatomy, a lobe is a clear anatomical division or extension of an organ (as seen for example in the brain, lung, liver, or kidney) that can be determined without the use of a microscope at the gross anatomy level.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Lumberjack
Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees.
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Maciej Henneberg
Maciej Henneberg (born 1949) is a Polish-Australian Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
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Manner of death
In many legal jurisdictions, the manner of death is a determination, typically made by the coroner, medical examiner, police, or similar officials, and recorded as a vital statistic.
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Marrickville, New South Wales
Marrickville is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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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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Mentone, Victoria
Mentone is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 21 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area.
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Mucous membrane
A mucous membrane or mucosa is a membrane that lines various cavities in the body of an organism and covers the surface of internal organs.
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Murder of Joseph Augustus Zarelli
Joseph Augustus Zarelli (January 13, 1953 – February 1957), previously known as the "Boy in the Box", "Boy in a Box" or "America's Unknown Child", was an American 4-year-old male whose nude, malnourished, beaten body was found on the side of Susquehanna Road, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 25, 1957.
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National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government within the executive branch, charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records.
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National Archives of Australia
The National Archives of Australia (NAA), formerly known as the Commonwealth Archives Office and Australian Archives, is an Australian Government agency that is the official repository for all federal government documents.
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New Scientist
New Scientist is a popular science magazine covering all aspects of science and technology.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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Nine Network
The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network.
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North Terrace, Adelaide
North Terrace is one of the four terraces that bound the central business and residential district of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia.
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Omar Khayyam
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam (عمر خیّام), was a Persian polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and poetry.
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One-time pad
In cryptography, the one-time pad (OTP) is an encryption technique that cannot be cracked, but requires the use of a single-use pre-shared key that is larger than or equal to the size of the message being sent.
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Ouabain
Ouabain or (from Somali waabaayo, "arrow poison" through French ouabaïo) also known as g-strophanthin, is a plant derived toxic substance that was traditionally used as an arrow poison in eastern Africa for both hunting and warfare.
Pasty
A pasty is a British baked pastry, a traditional variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall, South West England, but has spread all over the British Isles, and elsewhere through the Cornish diaspora.
Pauper's funeral
In the United Kingdom, a pauper's funeral was a funeral for a pauper paid for under the Poor Law.
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Payneham, South Australia
Payneham is an eastern suburb of Adelaide in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters.
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Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.
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Peter Bergmann case
The Peter Bergmann case pertains to the mysterious death of an unidentified man in Sligo, County Sligo, Ireland, on or around 16 June 2009. Somerton Man and Peter Bergmann case are unidentified decedents.
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Pharmacology
Pharmacology is the science of drugs and medications, including a substance's origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, therapeutic use, and toxicology.
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Pharmacy
Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medicines.
Pharynx
The pharynx (pharynges) is the part of the throat behind the mouth and nasal cavity, and above the esophagus and trachea (the tubes going down to the stomach and the lungs respectively).
Physiology
Physiology is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system.
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A pocket is a bag- or envelope-like receptacle either fastened to or inserted in an article of clothing to hold small items.
Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide is a port-side region of Adelaide, approximately northwest of the Adelaide CBD.
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Port Augusta
Port Augusta (Goordnada in the revived indigenous Barngarla language) is a small coastal city in South Australia about by road from the state capital, Adelaide.
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Pseudonym
A pseudonym or alias is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym).
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Public bathing
Public baths originated when most people in population centers did not have access to private bathing facilities.
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Quatrain
A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines.
Queensland
Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.
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RAAF Woomera Range Complex
The RAAF Woomera Range Complex (WRC) is a major Australian military and civil aerospace facility and operation located in South Australia, approximately north-west of Adelaide.
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Radium Hill
Radium Hill is a former minesite in South Australia which operated from 1906 until 1961.
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Randwick, New South Wales
Randwick is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
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Recto and verso
Recto is the "right" or "front" side and verso is the "left" or "back" side when text is written or printed on a leaf of paper in a bound item such as a codex, book, broadsheet, or pamphlet.
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Renmark, South Australia
Renmark is a town in South Australia's rural Riverland area, and is located northeast of Adelaide, on the banks of the River Murray.
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Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes
The partially decomposed body of Ricky McCormick was discovered in a field in St. Charles County, Missouri on June 30, 1999. Somerton Man and Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes are Undeciphered historical codes and ciphers.
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Rigor mortis
Rigor mortis, or postmortem rigidity, is the fourth stage of death.
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Royal Australian Engineers
The Royal Australian Engineers (RAE) is the military engineering corps of the Australian Army (although the word corps does not appear in their name or on their badge).
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Royal North Shore Hospital
The Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) is a major public teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia, located in the suburb of St Leonards.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his 1859 translation from Persian to English of a selection of quatrains (rubāʿiyāt) attributed to Omar Khayyam (1048–1131), dubbed "the Astronomer-Poet of Persia".
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Russian language
Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia.
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Scotland Yard
Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's 32 boroughs.
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Sergeant
Sergeant (Sgt) is a rank in use by the armed forces of many countries.
Smithsonian (magazine)
Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com), and is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization.
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Somerton Park, South Australia
Somerton Park is a seaside suburb of Adelaide in South Australia.
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South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.
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South Australia Police
South Australia Police (SAPOL) is the police force of the Australian state of South Australia.
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South Terrace, Adelaide
South Terrace is one of the four terraces which bound the city centre of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.
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South Yarra
South Yarra is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melbourne and Stonnington local government areas.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Springvale, Victoria
Springvale is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Greater Dandenong local government area.
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State Records of South Australia
State Records of South Australia (SRSA) is the archives and records management authority for the Government of South Australia.
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Stateline (TV program)
Stateline is a brand used by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for some local and state-based news stories.
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Stencil
Stencilling produces an image or pattern on a surface by applying pigment to a surface through an intermediate object, with designed holes in the intermediate object.
Stuart Littlemore
Stuart Littlemore KC is an Australian barrister and former journalist and television presenter.
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Swinburne University of Technology
The Swinburne University of Technology (or simply Swinburne) is a public research university in Melbourne, Australia.
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Talmud
The Talmud (תַּלְמוּד|Talmūḏ|teaching) is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law (halakha) and Jewish theology.
Tamam Shud
Tamam Shud is an Australian psychedelic, progressive and surf rock band, which formed in Newcastle in 1964.
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Tasmania
Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.
The Advertiser (Adelaide)
The Advertiser is a daily tabloid format newspaper based in the city of Adelaide, South Australia.
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The Argus (Melbourne)
The Argus was an Australian daily morning newspaper in Melbourne from 2 June 1846 to 19 January 1957, and was considered to be the general Australian newspaper of record for this period.
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The Australian
The Australian, with its Saturday edition The Weekend Australian, is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.
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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Doe Network
The Doe Network is a non-profit organization of volunteers who work with law enforcement to connect missing persons cases with John/Jane Doe cases. Somerton Man and The Doe Network are unidentified decedents.
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The Gentleman of Heligoland
The Gentleman of Heligoland is the nickname of an unidentified decedent whose body was found in the waters off Heligoland in 1994. Somerton Man and the Gentleman of Heligoland are unidentified decedents.
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The National Archives (United Kingdom)
The National Archives (TNA; Yr Archifau Cenedlaethol) is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
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The News (Adelaide)
The News was an afternoon daily tabloid newspaper in the city of Adelaide, South Australia, that had its origins in 1869, and ceased circulation in 1992.
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Third mate
A third mate (3/M) or third officer is a licensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship.
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Thread (yarn)
A thread is a long strand of material, often composed of several filaments or fibres, used for joining, creating or decorating textiles.
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Trove
Trove is an Australian online library database owned by the National Library of Australia in which it holds partnerships with source providers National and State Libraries Australia, an aggregator and service which includes full text documents, digital images, bibliographic and holdings data of items which are not available digitally, and a free faceted-search engine as a discovery tool.
Ulcer
An ulcer is a discontinuity or break in a bodily membrane that impedes normal function of the affected organ.
Undershirt
An undershirt in American English (vest in British and South African English, banyan in the Indian Subcontinent, or singlet in Australia and New Zealand), is an article of underwear worn underneath a dress shirt so as to protect it from body sweat and odors.
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University of Adelaide
The University of Adelaide is a public research university based in Adelaide, South Australia.
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Uranium
Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92.
Venona project
The Venona project was a United States counterintelligence program initiated during World War II by the United States Army's Signal Intelligence Service and later absorbed by the National Security Agency (NSA), that ran from February 1, 1943, until October 1, 1980.
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Vickie Chapman
Vickie Ann Chapman is a former Australian politician, representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Bragg for the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia between the 2002 election and May 2022.
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Victoria (state)
Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.
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War crime
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.
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Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact (WP), formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (TFCMA), was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955, during the Cold War.
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Waxed cotton
Waxed cotton is cotton impregnated with a paraffin or natural beeswax based wax, woven into or applied to the cloth.
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West Terrace Cemetery
The West Terrace Cemetery, formerly Adelaide Public Cemetery is a cemetery in Adelaide, South Australia.
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Whitcoulls
Whitcoulls is a major New Zealand book, stationery, gift, games & toy retail chain.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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2/1st North Australia Observer Unit
The 2/1st North Australia Observer Unit (2/1 NAOU) was an Australian Army reconnaissance unit of World War II.
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60 Minutes (Australian TV program)
60 Minutes is an Australian version of the United States television newsmagazine show of the same title, airing on the Nine Network since 1979 on Sunday nights.
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See also
1940s in Adelaide
- Somerton Man
Crime in Adelaide
- Crime in South Australia
- Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon
- Disappearance of the Beaumont children
- Somerton Man
- Truro murders
December 1948 events in Australia
- 1948 Boulder state by-election
- Somerton Man
Undeciphered historical codes and ciphers
- Beale ciphers
- D'Agapeyeff cipher
- Dorabella Cipher
- Henry Debosnys
- James Hampton (artist)
- Kryptos
- List of ciphertexts
- Olivier Levasseur
- Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 90
- Ricky McCormick's encrypted notes
- Sator Square
- Shugborough inscription
- Somerton Man
- The Secret (treasure hunt)
- Undeciphered writing systems
- Unfavorable Semicircle
- Voynich manuscript
- YOGTZE case
- Zodiac Killer
Unidentified decedents
- Albert Johnson (criminal)
- Barbara Pit massacre
- DNA Doe Project
- Disaster victim identification
- FBI Victims Identification Project
- Green Boots
- Human Shadow Etched in Stone
- L'Inconnue de la Seine
- Nude in the Nettles
- Othram
- Peter Bergmann case
- Robert Hicks Murray
- Smurfette Jane Doe
- Somerton Man
- The Bolney Torso
- The Doe Network
- The Gentleman of Heligoland
- The Thing (roadside attraction)
- The Younger Lady
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- Trow Ghyll skeleton
- Unidentified decedent
- Unnao dead bodies row
- Unreported missing
- Wheel-well stowaway
- Who Killed Jane Doe?
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerton_Man
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