PEASANT farmers in the Sierra da Aire mountains in Portugal began their days with prayer. But their customary quiet toil and devotion at noon on May 13, 1917, when a flash of lightning scared three children, a few kilometres from their homes near Fatima.
NEWSPAPERS and film crews had covered past coronations but George VI’s crowning was the first electronic royal media event.
THIRTY years ago a sensational trial began in Lyon that saw a Nazi butcher finally called to account for his crimes
ONE hundred and eighty years ago today, the US began sliding into a recession thanks to the rash policies of a stubborn president.
Amid grand plans in the 1880s boom years, two ambitious New Zealand engineers proposed building a 2km tunnel under Sydney Harbour. Their vision was a century in the making.
The music may have died almost 60 years back, but this week’s sale of Don McLean’s American Pie manuscript indicates his generation haven’t lost the cash to happily fork out millions for the memorabilia from their prime.
It was 1986 and Hollywood superstardom still a long way away when Russell Crowe donned eye-liner and head-to-toe leather to play Eddie in the cult musical.
Ploughing his way to a triumphant return after retirement, freestyler Grant Hackett joins international greats as Mohammed Ali, Pele and Niki Lauda, along with Australian champions Bob Simpson and Mark Occhilupo, on list of athletic fairy tales.
The first documented case of someone showing wounds similar to those suffered by Jesus came centuries after the crucifixion.
There was nothing basic about the fevered code-writing that led to the registration of Micro-Soft in Albequrque, New Mexico, 40 years ago.
He was a scruffy Teddy Boy who would go on to rock superstardom and she was a shy girl from Hoylake.
The job of taking over from a big star in a high rating program can be fraught with difficulties
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