Today, December 16 is the feast of St Adelaide, so here's holy shout out to the burghers of the City of Adelaide.
She gets a column in Britannica and her own gallery in Google images.
Catholicism has a pretty colourful collection of characters and this one is a child bride, feminist of her day, a political dynamo as the ever-reliable Wikipedia reminds us: the most prominent European woman of the 10th century.
So, let's have a Coopers for Adelaide!! And here's a link for those wondering about the reference in the heading to the Crows
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