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Port Arthur
Port Arthur
noun
a former penal settlement (1833–70) in Australia, on the S coast of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania
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Example Sentences
Shootings are relatively rare in Australia, which introduced some of the world's strictest firearm regulations after 35 people were killed in a massacre by a lone gunman at Port Arthur, Tasmania, in 1996.
"To us, it would be no different to having a statue of Martin Bryant," she says, referring to the gunman who massacred 35 people at nearby Port Arthur in 1996.
The next year, though, Port Arthur stayed on eastern time, while Fort William changed back to central time in the fall, which, predictably, “led to all sorts of confusion,” deJong says.
But the delicacy remained confined to Louisiana until AJ Judice, Jr.—the “Crazy Frenchman”—began running crawfish races in 1963 to promote his Cajun food store in southeast Texas’ Port Arthur.
The Arlington left Port Arthur, Ontario, on April 30, 1940, fully loaded with wheat and headed to Owen Sound, Ontario, under the command of Captain Frederick “Tatey Bug” Burke, a veteran of the Great Lakes.
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