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  2. Thumbnail for Convict children taken to Australia grew up taller than their UK peers

    Convict children taken to Australia grew up taller than their UK peers

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/413-convict-children-taken-to-australia-grew-up-taller-than-their-uk-peers
    17 Sep 2017: Male Tasmanian-born prisoners, arrested in the second half of the nineteenth century, were over four centimetres taller, on average, than transported convicts. And they were nearly two centimetres taller than free migrants who were born in Britain
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    How a biography brought me to family history

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1142-how-a-biography-brought-me-to-family-history
    11 Jun 2021: Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this article may contain the names and images of people who are now deceased. Back in the early 2000s, the Australian Dictionary of Biography decided to prepare a supplement
  4. Thumbnail for A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France

    A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1135-a-belgian-farmer-moved-a-rock-and-accidentally-annexed-france
    12 May 2021: This week, a farmer in the Belgian town of Erquelinnes caused an international ruckus when he moved a stone standing in his tractor’s path. This stone marked the boundary between Belgium and France. By moving it 2. 29 metres, he expanded Belgium’s
  5. Thumbnail for Passion for animals takes alumnus around the world

    Passion for animals takes alumnus around the world

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/40-passion-for-animals-takes-alumnus-around-the-world
    3 Feb 2016: It’s impossible to talk to the animals - but if anyone comes close, it’s animal behaviour expert Jade Fountain. Jade, 28, graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Science majoring in Zoology in 2011. From hand-rearing cheetah
  6. Thumbnail for STEM star discovers the art in science

    STEM star discovers the art in science

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/208-stem-star-discovers-the-art-in-science
    19 Dec 2016: Hobart PhD candidate Bianca Deans, 24, had no idea she would end up pursuing a career in science. During Year 11 and 12 at Hobart College, Bianca enjoyed visual arts and studied art at pre-tertiary level, anticipating an arts degree. “I went
  7. Thumbnail for How early Australian settlers drew maps to erase Indigenous people

    How early Australian settlers drew maps to erase Indigenous people

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1138-how-early-australian-settlers-drew-maps-to-erase-indigenous-people
    31 May 2021: The new Netflix series Shadow and Bone opens with cartographer Alina Starkov crammed into the back of a rumbling wagon, sketching a war-torn landscape. A flashback to her childhood in an orphanage shows her looking at a map of a conflict zone. A
  8. Thumbnail for The story of the missing star cluster - and how it was found again

    The story of the missing star cluster - and how it was found again

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/159-the-story-of-the-missing-star-cluster-and-how-it-was-found-again
    16 Sep 2016: In a tiny galaxy, three million light years away, a massive star cluster sat quietly waiting to be discovered - again. Dr Andrew Cole, from the University of Tasmania’s School of Physical Sciences, has rediscovered the star cluster in the Pegasus
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    A home for everyone?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/408-a-home-for-everyone
    12 Sep 2017: While Australia has an egalitarian mythology, where everyone has a chance, the roots of problems with access to housing lie in our history. The first land grants were given to former convicts as a way to control an unfenced prison colony. As free
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    How stars are born

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2016/91-how-stars-are-born
    20 May 2016: Do you ever gaze up at a starry night sky, and wonder where those beautiful twinkling stars began?Stars are born within clouds of dust in space. Gravity coalesces the gas and dust in these clouds into dense clumps over millions of years. The
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    Pioneers reclaimed

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/653-pioneers-reclaimed
    28 Jun 2018: When a Melbourne retiree started the online Diploma of Family History at the University of Tasmania she had no inkling that her own connection to the island state would be revealed. The author with her first book. Former teacher Janeen O’Connell had

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