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• ...that Australian physicist, Sir Kerr Grant studied with Nobel Prize winning chemist and physicist, Irving Langmuir at the University of Gottingen?

• ...that Australia's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century was the sinking of the Koombana (pictured) in a cyclone off Port Hedland, Western Australia?
• ...that the South Australian Register was the first newspaper to be produced and distributed in South Australia?
• ...that John Makepeace Bennett is an Australian computer scientist who was involved in the construction of early computers in England and was a pioneer of computing in Australia?
• ...that Dorothea Mackellar wrote her patriotic Australian poem "My Country", which contains the line I love a sunburnt country, while she was homesick when travelling in Europe?