Korea’s Kim dynasty began from ‘zero’
THE bungled attempts of North Korean hereditary dictator Kim Yong-un to prove his military might at the weekend is a legacy of the peninsula’s 107-year struggle for unity over the meddling of foreign occupiers.
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A Christian mystery: what came first, Easter or the egg?
THE Christian tradition of Easter eggs credits Mary Magdalene, who travelled to Rome to meet Emperor Tiberius Caesar at a banquet, where she declared “Christ is risen.”
Lost Aussie masterpiece is finally home after 150 years
IT was, says Sotheby’s Geoffrey Smith, “a jaw-dropping moment”. A Eugene von Guerard landscape painting whose whereabouts had eluded scholars for almost 150 year, had come back from Mexico.
Daffy Duck turns 80
DAFFY Duck made his debut 80 years ago today in the cartoon Porky’s Duck Hunt, playing a screwball second fiddle to established star Porky, but the foul-tempered fowl developed into a star in his own right.
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‘A good man, not such a good father’
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Acclaimed saga re-opened bitter wounds
THE first feature-length film, released a century ago today, reopened US Civil War wounds by defending the Ku Klux Klan.
Passion for peace forged in violence of the ghetto
HE has been dead for over thirty years but Bob Marley’s music still resonates today.
Author Harper Lee plots her way out of book world’s select club
TO Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee is finally breaking out of literature’s select club.
Sowing seeds of the Cold War
Seventy years ago the leaders of the three main Allied nations met to discuss how the post-war world would look.
Father of the pill became patron of young artists
The late chemist Carl Djerassi was a true renaissance man, a scientist who was also a teacher, writer and great patron of the arts
Canine heroes starred in dash to save frozen town
A gold rush town was saved 90 years ago today by a relay of dog sleds.
Cheers signalled the end of US slavery
THE Thirteenth Amendment to the American Constitution passed the House of Representatives in Washington DC 150 years ago today.
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