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No 96 Entity
No Age Entity
No Name restaurant Entity
No Room for Dreamers Entity
Noahs Ark Toy Library Entity
Noble, John Sullivan Entity
Nock and Kirby Entity
Nock, Norman Lindfield Entity
Noel Bell Ridley Smith & Partners Entity
Noffs, Ted Entity
Nolan, Sidney Entity
Noller Bridge Entity
Noller, William Peter Entity
Nomura, Naokichi Entity
Noonan, Patrick Entity
Norfolk Entity
Norfolk sloop Entity
Norm and Ahmed Entity
Normal Institution Entity
Norman, Decima Entity
Norman, George Entity
Norman, Lilith Entity
Normanhurst Entity
Normanhurst Girls School Ashfield Entity
Normanhurst Public School Entity
Normanton Entity
Norris, Isaac Entity
Norris, William Entity
Norris, WP Entity
Norst, Marlene Entity
North Avalon Entity
North Balgowlah Entity
North Bondi Entity
North Bondi War Memorial Entity
North Brighton Golf Club Entity
North Curl Curl Entity
North Epping Entity
North Head Entity
North Manly Entity
North Narrabeen Entity
North Narrabeen Rock Pool Entity
North Parramatta Entity
North Richmond Entity
North Rocks Entity
North Ryde Entity
North Ryde Golf Club Entity
North Ryde Golf Course Entity
North Ryde Progress Association Entity
North Ryde Public School Entity
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No 96

Television series based in a Sydney apartment block which ran from 1972 to 1977.

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No Age

American Indy band which toured Australia in 2008.

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No Name restaurant

Italian restaurant opened in 1959 in Stanley St, East Sydney

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No Room for Dreamers

Play based on the life of sex reformer and eccentric William James Chidley.

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Noahs Ark Toy Library

Community resource centre for children with special needs.

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Noble, John Sullivan

American showman and circus owner who toured Australia between 1851 and 1854.

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Nock and Kirby

Retail chain of hardware and general household goods.

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Nock, Norman Lindfield

Retailer and company director Sir Norman Nock worked to improve Sydney's civic amenities and culture. He served as Lord Mayor 1938-39.

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Noel Bell Ridley Smith & Partners

Brisbane architectural practice.

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Noffs, Ted

Methodist minister who reached out to the most marginalised in society through his work at the Wayside Chapel and Lifeline.

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Nolan, Sidney

Artist renowned for his personal interpretations of historical and legendary figures, including Ned Kelly, Burke and Wills, and Eliza Fraser.

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Noller Bridge

Timber truss footbridge across the Parramatta River constructed by Parramatta Park trustees to replace one built in 1887 but destroyed by floods in the 1890s.

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Noller, William Peter

Builder in the Parramatta area.

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Nomura, Naokichi

Japanese sailor who was the captain of the Japanese Polar expedition's ship Kainan Maru.

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Noonan, Patrick

Early landowner at Wahroonga.

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Norfolk

Ship which in 1829 transported seven Greeks convicted of piracy in Malta.

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Norfolk sloop

Longboat used by Matthew Flinders to explore the east coast.

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Norm and Ahmed

The play explores racism in Australian when a middle-aged war veteran, Norm, has an encounter with a Pakistani student Ahmed, at a bus stop one night. It was controversial in having the line 'fucking boong' that resulted in court cases against censorship. It premiered at the Old Tote Theatre.

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Normal Institution

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School established by Henry Carmichael in 1835 in Elizabeth Street.

Norman, Decima

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Champion runner who won 5 gold medals at the 1938 Empire Games in Sydney, and stayed to train in Sydney for the 1940 Olympics, which were cancelled because of World War II.

Norman, George

Sailor who died in the wreck of the Edward Lombe in Sydney Harbour in August 1834. He had been the second mate. He and a passenger, surgeon Thomas Gibbs, died while trying to fix a line from the ship to the shore at Middle Head during the storm.  His remains were found near Chowder Bay, and he was identified an an inquest on 9 September 1834 by the ship's first mate Thomas Marshall. He was buried at Devonshire Street cemetery. 

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Norman, Lilith

Poet and children's author.

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Normanhurst

Northern residential suburb, named for prominent civil engineer Norman Selfe (1839-1911), who had a property there. 'Hurst' is the Old English word for a wooded hill.

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Normanhurst Girls School Ashfield

Anglican girls boarding school which was started in Bland Street in Ashfield. It moved to Orpington St in 1888 and was there until it closed.

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Normanhurst Public School

Public school originally known as Hornsby Public School but renamed when the area was renamed Normanhurst after leading resident Norman Selfe

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Normanton

One of twin terraces built by Norman Selfe in Balmain, and lived in by family members.

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Norris, Isaac

Proprietor of a ginger beer and cordial factory.

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Norris, William

Marine who was sent to South Head as punishment.

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Norris, WP

Director of Quarantine for the Commonwealth in 1912.

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Norst, Marlene

Linguist and academic of Austrian heritage who became a respected multicultural consultant and freelance writer.

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North Avalon

Locality north of the suburb of Avalon.

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North Balgowlah

North-eastern residential suburb, separated from Balgowlah in 1984.

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North Bondi

Eastern residential suburb, bordering Bondi Beach.

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North Bondi War Memorial

Memorial using Australian sandstone, stainless steel and black
granite imported from India. It comprises an S shaped wall, a Victoria Cross wall, Lest We Forget wall and Reg Saunders wall recognising Australia's first Aboriginal commissioned officer.

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North Brighton Golf Club

Golf club established on the site of a sewage farm near the Cooks River.

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North Curl Curl

Northern beaches suburb between Dee Why and Freshwater. Its name may have derived from the Aboriginal phrase 'curial curial', meaning river of life.

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North Epping

Northern residential suburb, surrounded on three sides by bushland. Formerly farmland, it was developed for housing in the 1950s and 1960s and became a separate suburb in 1995.

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North Head

Sandstone headland on the northern edge of Sydney Harbour.

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North Manly

North-eastern residential suburb which straddles Pittwater Road between Manly Vale and Brookvale.

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North Narrabeen

North-eastern residential suburb, on northern shore of Narrabeen Lakes.

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North Narrabeen Rock Pool

Rock pool at the entrance to Narrabeen Lagoon, constructed by Warringah Council.

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North Parramatta

Western suburb chiefly occupied by Lake Parramatta, Cumberland Hospital and The Kings School. It was designated as a separate suburb in 2007.

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North Richmond

North-western semi-rural suburb across Hawkesbury River from Richmond.

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North Rocks

Residential and light industrial suburb north of Parramatta, named for a massive sandstone outcrop in 1789. It is the home of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children.

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North Ryde

Northern residential suburb adjacent to Macquarie Park, which was separated from it in 1999. The area was known for poultry farms and orchards until housing development began in the 1950s.

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North Ryde Golf Club

Originally established by a private company in 1937 and incorporated as a club in its own right in 1949.

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North Ryde Golf Course

Golf course in North Ryde between Lane Cove Road and Twin Road, established in 1935.

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North Ryde Progress Association

Community group formed about 1890 as North West Ryde Progress Association to lobby for improved facilities and infrastructure in the area.

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North Ryde Public School

Local public school in North Ryde. The original school building is now the New South Wales Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education.

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North Ryde School of Arts

School of Arts established in 1891. Its hall, built in 1901, and extended in 1930, was used for meetings, dances, concerts etc for residents of the area.

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