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Whit Sunday

the seventh Sunday after Easter, observed as a feast in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles 50 days after Easter
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But, just like Mount Tabora did in Listowel, Whitsunday Islands might be capable of taking advantage of his initial mark of 75.
in the Whitsunday Anglican School, in North Mackay, Queensland.
It's great for holidaymakers keen to get out to the Great Barrier Reef or tour the Whitsunday Islands.
It also has the name of Whitsunday, because of the white garments worn by those who were baptized during the vigil.
His property is roughly 1500--km north of the state capital, Brisbane, which in turn is 1000-km from Sydney, and 30-km from the Whitsunday Coast, where the beauty of the coastal town, Airlie Beach, and the nearby offshore islands have made it a playground for millions of tourists each year.
Once back on the mainland torrential rain prevented us from taking a trip to possibly the world's most beautiful beach, Whitehaven on Whitsunday Island.
The Sea People: Late Holocene Maritime Specialisation in the Whitsunday Islands, Central Queensland.
A reception was held at the Freshwater Bay Hotel and the honeymoon was spent on Whitsunday Island.
The wind began to blow, the waves began to rise and fall, the ship started to pitch and toss...the rest as they say, is history...and so, having safely returned to terra firma: Tomorrow is Whitsunday.
English worshippers were confronted by this politicoreligious imperative -- whether by design or coincidence is unknown, though it seems too perfect to have been mere chance -- on the very first day of Uniformity, Whitsunday (Pentecost) 1549.
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