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With lyrics covering themes of humanity in the unknown, mortality and divinity, the four songs drive home narratives with building soundtracks of duelling guitars, harmony-riddled vocals and commanding percussion."
Cole said "The strength of Holy Holy can simply be put down to a sheer dedication to craft.
Their songs have a timeless quality, fusing impeccable songwriting, thought-provoking lyrics, near-flawless performances, and lush production."
Oliver Friend from Forte Magazine believes the EP would make many "indie festival fans very happy and excited" and called 'House of Cards' as the standout track.
Alexender Crowden from Beat Magazine said the EP sounded "something like all of the best indie-rock songs of the past two years combined into four tracks" before concluding with ""The Pacific EP" is a creative and enjoyable first step".
The AU review called the EP "brilliant".
Peter Holl
Peter Holl (born 29 January 1955) is a German former professional tennis player.
A native of Cologne, Holl took up the sport of tennis at the age of seven and in 1975 joined the tennis team at Georgia Southern College, where he played for two seasons.
Holl featured in doubles main draws at two editions of the French Open, in 1980 and 1981.
His best performance was a second round appearance in the men's doubles at the 1980 French Open, partnering Tsuyoshi Fukui.
John Llewellyn Jones
John Llewellyn Jones (1866 – 13 December 1927) was an Australian artist and photographer who was associated with the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism.
Born and raised in Melbourne, Jones studied painting at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School under George Folingsby between 1883 and 1889.
He was an early member of both the Box Hill artists' camp, established in 1885, and the Heidelberg camp, where, alongside Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder and others, he painted the Australian landscape "en plein air" using impressionist techniques.
During this time, he was a member of the Buonarotti Club, one of Melbourne's leading bohemian arts clubs of the mid-1880s.
Streeton gifted a number of his Heidelberg works to Jones, including "Impression for Golden Summer" (1888), the basis of his now-iconic landscape "Golden Summer, Eaglemont" (1889).
Jones went on to lend "Impression for Golden Summer" to the landmark 9 by 5 Impression Exhibition of 1889.
The following year, Jones and Streeton submitted a number of their Heidelberg works to the Victorian Artists Society's winter show, which attracted the attention of Art Gallery of New South Wales trustees on visit from Sydney.
Regarding the pair as "most promising young artists", they purchased both Jones' "The Dry Season" and Streeton's "An Australian Gloaming", making them some of the first Heidelberg School works to enter a public collection.
"The Dry Season" was later included in the 1898 Exhibition of Australian Art in London, among other works by Jones.
Living in Sydney towards the end of his life, Jones continued to paint, mostly in watercolour.
He died at North Sydney Hospital on 13 December 1927 after a brief illness.
While Streeton wrote of him as a significant early proponent of "plein-airism" in Australia, Jones has, compared to other members of the Melbourne "artists' camps", languished in relative obscurity.
Art critic James Stuart MacDonald wrote in 1958:
In 1996, a large collection of Jones' oil paintings and watercolours were discovered and exhibited at the Tweed Regional Gallery.
Titled "John Llewellyn Jones: Australia's Forgotten Painter", the exhibition later toured to other regional galleries.
Llewellyn Loop in the Canberra suburb of Conder is named after Jones.
Wulong bohaiensis
Wulong (meaning "dancing dragon") is a genus of microraptorine dromaeosaurid dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Jiufotang Formation of China.
It includes one species, Wulong bohaiensis.
The skeletal remains represent a juvenile.
The holotype specimen of the dinosaur was found by a farmer in the fossil-rich Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning Province, China.
Since then the fossil skeleton has been housed in the collection of the Dalian Natural History Museum in Liaoning.
The skeletal bones were analyzed by Ashley William Poust alongside her former advisor David Varricchio from Montana State University and Dalian paleontologists Chunling Gao, Jianlin Wu, and Fengjiao Zhang.
The long and bony tail of "Wulong bohaiensis" is double its body length.
Its skeleton had hollow bones.
The dinosaur has feathers on its limbs and two long plumes at the end of its tail.
In addition, it has a narrow head that carries thin jaws filled with small and sharp teeth.
It is closely related to "Sinornithosaurus" from the Yixian Formation.
1989 Claxton Shield
The 1989 Claxton Shield was the 50th annual Claxton Shield and the final Shield in its traditional state format before the Australian Baseball League (1989–1999).
The participants were South Australia, New South Wales Patriots, Victoria Aces, Western Australia and Northern Territory with the incumbent back to back champions Queensland absent.
The tournament was held in Sydney over twelve days at Auburn Baseball Club's Oriole Park rather than a home and away series.
The home New South Wales team were champions.
The Helms Award went to Richard Vagg of Victoria.
Stefan Heckmanns
Stefan Heckmanns (born 6 April 1963) is a German former professional tennis player.
A right-handed player from Cologne, Heckmanns began competing professionally in 1987.
Heckmanns featured in the doubles main draw of the 1988 Australian Open, with local player Anthony Spartalis as his partner.
His only Grand Prix/ATP Tour main draw appearance in singles came at the 1988 Bristol Open, as a lucky loser from qualifying.
Van Apshoven family
Van Apshoven or van Apshoven is a Dutch language surname.
It may refer to:
Shakhban Kurbanov
Shakhban Kurbanov is a Russian Paralympic judoka.
He represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Paralympics and at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and he won the bronze medal in the men's 73 kg event in 2012.
He won the silver medal in the men's 70 kg event at the 2015 IBSA World Games.
Hugo Rama
Hugo José Rama Calviño (born 22 November 1996) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for CD Lugo as a central midfielder.
Born in Sigüeiro, Oroso, A Coruña, Galicia, Rama represented Celta de Vigo and ED Xuventude Oroso as a youth.
He made his senior debut with hometown side Sigüeiro FC on 7 September 2014, starting and scoring the equalizer in a 1–2 home loss against Cordeiro FC for the "Primera Autonómica" championship.
Rama subsequently moved to Deportivo de La Coruña; initially assigned to the youth setup, he featured sparingly with the reserves in Tercera División.
In August 2017, he joined Segunda División B side CCD Cerceda.
On 25 January 2018, Rama signed a contract with CD Lugo, effective as of 1 July.
On 7 August, however, he was loaned to third division side CD Mirandés for one year.
Rama was an undisputed starter for the Castilian-Leonese side, scoring a career-best six goals as the club achieved promotion to the second division, but suffering a serious knee injury in the play-offs.
On 24 July, he extended his contract with Lugo until 2022.
Rama was declared fit to play only in January 2020, and made his professional debut on 15 January by coming on as a second-half substitute for Álex López in a 0–1 away loss against Rayo Vallecano.
New Hampshire Library Association
The New Hampshire Library Association (NHLA) is a professional organization for New Hampshire's librarians and library workers; it is the oldest state library association in the United States.
It was founded in 1889 by an act of the legislature with the stated goal "to promote the efficiency of libraries and to cultivate fellowship among its members."
A group of 49 library trustees and one librarian met for the first time on September 12, 1890, at the American Library Association meeting in the White Mountains.
Nathan Hunt, the City Librarian of Manchester, was NHLA's first president, elected in 1891.
NHLA became a state chapter of the American Library Association in 1941.
New Norcia Hotel
The New Norcia Hotel is a historic building in New Norcia, in Western Australia's Wheatbelt region.
Part of the Benedictine Monastery Precinct, it opened in 1927 as a hostel for travellers and families of boarders at the New Norcia colleges, but later opened to the public.
It closed in January 2020.
New Norcia, Australia's only monastic town, was founded by Spanish Benedictine monks in 1847.
Since the early 20th century, there have been boarding colleges associated with the monastery in New Norcia – St Gertrude's opened in 1908 for girls, and St Ildephonsus' opened in 1913 for boys.
By 1926 the existing hostels were barely able to cope with the crowds of visitors coming for Easter reunions.
Construction of a new, more elaborate, hostel began in 1926, and it opened in 1927, along with a modern motor garage.
The two-storey structure was built in a neo-classical architectural style from stone.
A large stairway, several metres wide, leads to a passageway, with guest rooms on both sides.
The windows overlook several hectares of the monastery's farm, while from a colonnaded balcony there are views of St Gertrude's College, St Joseph's Orphanage, and the public chapel.
The verandah is tiled in a traditional Spanish style.
By 1952 the hostel had electricity, but the supply was turned off at 9 pm, with candles provided to guests.
In 1955 the hostel was turned into the New Norcia Hotel, with fifteen rooms, as well as a bar and a restaurant.
The monks were the first religious organisation in Australia to have a hotel licence.
The tourist experience at New Norcia was promoted since the 1980s as a niche-interest, promoting cultural traditions, and historical and spiritual experiences, with the active use of historic buildings a way to maintain them.
There were few changes evident at the hotel by the 1990s.
The hotel received a permanent entry on the Register of the National Estate on 21 October 1980, and was classified by the National Trust on 3 November 1991.
Its condition is described as "good".
In the first week of January 2020, the monks made a sudden announcement that the hotel was closing, as it was "not part of [their] strategic plan".
A letter sent to local residents stated:
The Shire of Victoria Plains' president Pauline Bantock said the closure would have a significant impact on the local community, due to the hotel's popularity with tourists, and because it was the only place within for meals and social contact.
Boulder Ridge
Boulder Ridge is a elevation mountain ridge located in the eastern Olympic Mountains in Jefferson County of Washington state.
It is set within Buckhorn Wilderness on land managed by the Olympic National Forest.