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Lash are an alternative/punk rock band from Perth, Australia. They have had their first 2 singles reaching the top 40 Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart in 2001 (Take Me Away and Beauty Queen), and also a third single making the top 100 in 2002 (Don't Ever Make My Mind Up). Their debut album with these 3 singles is The Beautiful and The Damned, which also made the top 50 ARIAnet Albums Chart in 2002. Their song Beauty Queen was also featured on the Freaky Friday soundtrack in 2003. The term alternative rock or alternative music1 was coined in the early 1980s to describe bands which didnt fit into the mainstream genres of the time. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... For other cities named Perth, see Perth. ... Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is the sixth-largest country in the world, the only country to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia/Oceania. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Freaky Friday is the name of three different movies with similar plots made by the Walt Disney Company where a teenage girl and her mother switch bodies and learn to understand each other better. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ...


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Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Lashing (ropework) (1585 words)
Lashings are most commonly applied to timber poles, and are commonly associated with the scouting movement and with sailors.
Large structures can be built with a combination of square and diagonal lashing, with square lashing generally used on load bearing members and diagonal lashing usually applied to cross bracing.
Diagonal lashing is a type of lashing used to bind spars or poles together, to prevent racking.
UNHCR - Iran: Information on lashing and whipping as corporal punishment, including the types of crimes for which it is ... (628 words)
According to the Shari'ah, the religious law based on the Qor'an and the Sunna (example) of the Prophet Muhammad, lashing and whipping are prescribed punishment (hudud, singular hadd) for crimes against individuals or society (Doi 1984, 223-25).
Information specific to the payment of money to avoid lashing for crimes other than disobeying the dress code is currently unavailable to the DIRB in Ottawa.
However, as noted previously, if the punishment is not prescribed by law, forms of punishment (whether lashing or fine) are at the discretion of the presiding judge (Doi 226, 264; ODR Sept. 1993, 3425).
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