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  2. Australasia - Wikipedia

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    Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand (overlapping with Polynesia), and sometimes including New Guinea and surrounding islands (overlapping with Melanesia). The term is used in a number of different contexts, including geopolitically , physiogeographically , philologically , and ecologically , where the term ...

  3. Death row - Wikipedia

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    Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death.The term is also used figuratively to describe the state of awaiting execution ("being on death row"), even in places where no special facility or separate unit for condemned inmates exists.

  4. List of death row inmates in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Mosley, who murdered Back, was sentenced to life in prison. Myers became the youngest inmate on death row in Ohio at the time of his sentence. Donna Roberts: Had her ex-husband killed in order to collect his life insurance. 21 years, 230 days [82] Roberts is the only female death row inmate in Ohio. William Kessler Sapp

  5. Brazilian Australians - Wikipedia

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    According to the 2021 Census, 46,720 people in Australian were born in Brazil while 24,377 claimed Brazilian ancestry. [3] According to the Brazilian consulate, almost 60,000 Brazilians are living in Australia as of 2020 (making around 0.25% of the country's population). [citation needed]

  6. Australia - Wikipedia

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    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, [17] is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. [18] Australia has a total area of 7,688,287 km 2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania .

  7. Down Under - Wikipedia

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    Australasia on a map The term Down Under is a colloquialism differently construed to refer to Australia and New Zealand , or the Pacific island countries collectively. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The term originally referred solely to Australia and gradually expanded in scope.

  8. Brazil will not retract Lula's Gaza comments in diplomatic ...

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    Brazil's foreign ministry said it would summon Israel's ambassador to Brazil, Daniel Zonshine, for a meeting in Rio de Janeiro, where Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira is to attend G20 meetings.

  9. Name of Australia - Wikipedia

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    The name Australia was specifically applied to the continent for the first time in 1794, [5] with the botanists George Shaw and Sir James Smith writing of "the vast island, or rather continent, of Australia, Australasia or New Holland" in their 1793 Zoology and Botany of New Holland, [16] and James Wilson including it on a 1799 chart. [17]