How Henry Ford lost traction
SEVENTY years ago today motoring pioneer Henry Ford’s lost his life. It was the end of a remarkable life, but although the Ford company would continue, he was dissatisfied with the direction.
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Uncovering the Tony of the Tony Awards
SEVENTY years ago today the luminaries of the US theatre world gathered for the first time to honour their best and brightest, thanks to a great female director Antoinette Perry.
Australia’s first Catholic Archbishop Polding won independence for convict colony Catholics
ON April 5, 1842, 175 years ago today, Pope Gregory XVI made Sydney a metropolitan and archiepiscopal see and Bishop Bede Polding Australia’s first archbishop.
Prince of Wales dodged teen assassin’s bullet in Brussels
THE royal train was preparing to pull out of the Gare du Nord in Brussels, on April 4 1900, when a young man fired two shots into the royal compartment narrowly missing the Prince and Princess of Wales inside.
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England’s first parliament was born out of rebellion
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Naked frolic on the stage of decency
This week, New York comedy act the Wau Wau Sisters strip down to bare their own grudges against moral absurdity for the Festival of Sydney in Naked as the Day They Were Born Again.
Garden pyramid dedicated to cabbages and kings
Perhaps the apex isn’t precisely orientated to Earth’s north-south axis, or the base not proportional to its height, but somehow pyramid power eluded the intricate steel and glass greenhouse at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden
The very model of a Gilbert & Sullivan star
Sir Henry Lytton dominated comic opera stage but couldn’t read music
Germans turned gas into deadly advantage at Ypres
Chlorine was first described as a deadly agent in trench warfare a century ago.
Blood in the dust of Broken Hill
A century ago four people died in a gunfight between cameleers and New Year revellers on the dusty plains of far western NSW.
New Year celebrations can last for months
For one billion people around the world, televised images of Sydney’s festive $7 million bonfire exploding over the harbour will herald the start of a new year.
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