MEMORABILIA from the ill-fated Titanic are displayed with items from her equally luxurious sister-ship Olympic, nominated by conspiracy theorists as the vessel that really sunk in mid April, 1912.
OBITUARY: Given his New Zealand birth and long-time Melbourne address, perhaps the greatest testament to satirist John Clarke’s comedic talent is that he was never run out of Sydney.
HOW a petite teen acrobat Rossa Richter pioneered the human cannonball act, aged 14, at the Royal Aquarium at Westminster in London 140 years ago on April 10, 1877.
TRAILBLAZING John Christian Watson was the youngest serving prime minister when he became Australia’s first Labor Prime Minister and first Labor head of a national government in the world in 1904.
Arnold Palmer was pipped at the pin by an outsider from Australia in 1960 who robbed him of his first Open Championship, it was the pinnacle of Kel Nagle’s career.
AN insult ended the creative partnership behind the Disney company’s best loved movies.
Chubby singer Demis Roussos will live forever and ever in the hearts of Australian fans.
AFTER witnessing the worst aspects of war Tom Uren returned to Australia a changed man, determined to fight, but this time in the political arena and for social justice.
Sydney’s first Australia Day was celebrated on July 30, 1915
Welcomed with the words, “You will be free to think, dream and work,” Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci delivered Italian Renassiance elegance to France.
THE late Harry Gordon had a varied career in journalism before turning to writing histories, and a role as official historian to the Australian Olympic Committee.
WHEN summer heat hit the city from the 1920s to the ’60s residents of Western Sydney headed straight for Lake Parramatta.
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