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  2. Philippine Standard Time - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] At the time, local mean time was used to set clocks, meaning that every place used its own local time based on its longitude because the time was measured by locally observing the Sun. Philippine Standard Time was instituted through Batas Pambansa Blg. 8 (that defined the metric system ), approved on December 2, 1978, and implemented on ...

  3. List of premiers of Queensland by time in office - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of premiers of Queensland by time in office. The basis of the list is the inclusive number of days between dates. ... Time in office (total) Election ...

  4. ASEAN Common Time - Wikipedia

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    The ASEAN Common Time (ACT) is a proposal to adopt a standard time for all Association of Southeast Asian Nations member states. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was proposed in 1995 by Singapore , and in 2004 and 2015 by Malaysia to make business across countries easier.

  5. Stirling Castle (1829 brig) - Wikipedia

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    Stirling Castle enters Lloyd's Register in 1830 with Fraser, Master, and Abrams & Co., owners, and trade Greenock–Quebec. [2]Before her fateful voyage, Stirling Castle had sailed from Greenock, Scotland, to the colony of Sydney in 1831 with John Dunmore Lang's "mechanics" with the intention of building the Australian College and the founding members of the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts.

  6. South Pacific air ferry route in World War II - Wikipedia

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    The South Pacific air ferry route was initially established in the 1920s to ferry United States Army Air Service aircraft to the Philippines.As the Japanese threat in the Far East increased in 1940, General Douglas MacArthur planned that in the event of war, the United States Army Air Corps would play a major role in defending the Philippines.

  7. Manilla, New South Wales - Wikipedia

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    Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Manilla, NSW. Manilla is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, located on Fossickers Way 45 kilometres northwest of the regional city of Tamworth and 27 kilometres northeast of the historic village Somerton.

  8. List of ambassadors of Australia to the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Manila: Nominator: Prime Minister of Australia: Appointer: Governor General of Australia: Term length: No fixed term: Inaugural holder: Herbert Peterson (as Consul-General) Formation: 4 July 1946: Website: Australian Embassy, Manila

  9. The Manila Times - Wikipedia

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    The Manila Times was founded by Thomas Gowan, an Englishman who had been living in the Philippines. The paper was created to serve mainly the Americans who were sent to Manila to fight in the Spanish–American War. At the time, most of the newspapers in the Philippines were in Spanish and a few others were in the native languages.