On this date in 1836 the city of Adelaide, South Australia was founded. 10 things you might not know about Adelaide:
Before the British arrived, the area was inhabited by the indigenous Kaurna people. They called the area Tarntanya which means “red Kangaroo rock”. The British named the city after Queen Adelaide, the wife of King William IV.
The city also has a number of nicknames, including City of Churches. There are a lot of churches because it was known as a place of religious freedom and tolerance. It’s also known as the ‘20 minutes city’, because due to its excellent transport links, you can reach anywhere in the city within 20 minutes.
It was the only major city in Australia not to be founded by convicts, but rather was a planned capital for free British settlers. The planners at first thought that since the inhabitants didn’t have criminal records, they wouldn’t need a prison. However, once the criminals in other cities heard about this, they came and took advantage, so in due course a prison had to be built.
The city was designed by the first surveyor-general of South Australia, Colonel William Light. His plan, now known as Light's Vision, arranged Adelaide in a grid, with five squares in the city centre and a ring of parks, known as the Adelaide Parklands, surrounding it.
Adelaide is the opal capital of Australia.
It is the capital of South Australia and the fifth largest city in the country.
Adelaide is the first and only UNESCO City of Music in Australia. The city was given this status in December 2015 and is part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
It is home to the third most expensive building in the world, after the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest and One World Trade Center in New York. The building in question is the 800 bed Royal Adelaide Hospital, which cost more than $2 billion. It was built to be eco-friendly and uses robots to move medicines and food around the building.
Adelaide is also home to the largest single-span conservatory and the oldest glasshouse in the Southern Hemisphere. The Bicentennial Conservatory was built in 1988 to celebrate Australia’s Bicentenary, and is the youngest building to receive a Heritage Listing. The Palm House is a restored Victorian Glasshouse imported from Germany in 1875, thought to be the only glasshouse of its kind still in existence in the world.
In 1881, the University of Adelaide was the first university in Australia to allow women to study. In 1885 Edith Dornwell was the first woman to graduate from the university with a degree in science. In 1894 it became the first city in South Australia to allow women to vote and to stand for parliament.
The first in a new series! It has invading aliens, gladiator-style contests, rivalry and romance.
The six richest people in Britain decide to hold a contest to settle the question of which of them is most successful. It will be a gladiator style contest with each entrant fielding a team of ten super-powered combatants. Entrepreneur Llew Powell sets out to put together his team, which includes his former lover, an employee of his company with a fascinating hobby, two refugees from another dimension (a lonely giant and a drunken sailor), two sisters bound together by a promise, a diminutive doctor, a former Tibetan monk initiate and two androids with a history. As the team train together, alliances form, friendships and more develop, while others find the past is not easy to leave behind.
Meanwhile, a ruthless race of aliens has its eyes on the Earth. Already abducting and enslaving humans, they work towards the final invasion which would destroy life on Earth as we know it. Powell’s group, Combat Team Alpha, stumble upon one of the wormholes the aliens use to travel to Earth and witness for themselves the horrors in store if the aliens aren’t stopped. Barely escaping with their lives, they realise there are more important things to worry about than a fighting competition.
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