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Qiyu Zhou (Chinese: 周齐宇; born January 6, 2000), also known as Nemo Zhou and her online alias akaNemsko, is a Chinese-born Canadian and Finnish chess player who holds the titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and FIDE Master (FM), and is a live streamer on Twitch. She has been an under-14 girls' World Youth Champion, a Canadian women's ...
The name Australia has been applied to two continents. Originally, it was applied to the south polar continent, or sixth continent, now known as Antarctica.The name is a shortened form of Terra Australis which was one of the names given to the imagined (but undiscovered) land mass that was thought to surround the south pole.
The name Australia was popularised by the explorer Matthew Flinders, who circumnavigated the continent in 1803. However, when his account of his voyage was published in 1814, the name Terra Australis was used. [30] New South Wales Governor Lachlan Macquarie officially recommended the name Australia to replace New Holland in December 1817.
The name derives from the Bandjalang word meaning "camping place". Aboriginal names of suburbs of Brisbane , derived from the Turrbal language . Place names in Australia have names originating in the Australian Aboriginal languages for three main reasons: [ citation needed ]
In the 2021 census, people who self-identified on the census form as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin totalled 812,728 out of a total of 25,422,788 Australians, equating to 3.2% of Australia's population [51] and an increase of 163,557 people, or 25.2%, since the previous census in 2016.
This is a list of English words derived from Australian Aboriginal languages. Some are restricted to Australian English as a whole or to certain regions of the country. Others, such as kangaroo and boomerang , have become widely used in other varieties of English , and some have been borrowed into other languages beyond English.
Kwame is an Akan masculine given name among the Akan people (such as the Akuapem, Ashanti, Akyem, Bono and Fante) in Ghana which is given to a boy born on Saturday. [1] Traditionally in Ghana, a child would receive their Akan day name during their Outdooring , eight days after birth.
Bohdan Kaminský (pen name of Karel Bušek) (1859–1929), Czech poet and translator; Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski, (1899–1944), General-Major of Waffen-SS; Dan Kaminsky (1979–2021), American computer security expert; David Kaminsky (born 1938), Israeli basketball player; David Daniel Kaminsky, birth name of American comic Danny Kaye ...