Poet spoke with voice of the common man
When Walt Whitman heard his brother was wounded in the Civil War he rushed to his side and saw the suffering that war had brought to many ordinary men
Today In History
Son of a monk became the father of monsters
When a young Japanese student named Ishiro Honda saw his first film at age 10 he became hooked and later went on to become famous as the director of the classic film Godzilla
Star’s father guilty of ‘crime of the century’
When Texas district court judge John Wood was shot dead 40 years ago today it led to the conviction of a man whose son would later become a famous actor
How Aussie pilots took down Hitler’s jet fighter
As Nazi Germany made its last desperate attempts to continue its reign of terror in Europe, brave Queensland airmen risked their lives shooting down a weapon that would change the course of history.
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Sydney’s early markets were far from super
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Martinis have been shaken and stirred for 150 years
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Rescue mission claimed Norway’s Arctic hero
OBSERVERS were surprised when Roald Amundsen joined the 1928 search for his rival, Italian aviator Umberto Nobile.
Horse dispute gave birth to motion pictures
WHEN Edweard Muybridge set up an experiment to settle an argument over what happened with a horse’s legs while it galloped, his innovations had an effect far beyond determining the motion of a horse
Australia’s worst plane crash a 50-year secret
THE crew of the Flying Fortress called their plane, Every Morning Fix’n, because they were constantly repairing it to keep it in the air. But that name had a terrible irony when it crashed killing 40 US servicemen in 1943.
German air ace died in crash on routine flight
GERMAN air ace Helmut Lent survived hundreds of sorties with Allied pilots only to die on a routine flight in Germany.
Hollywood producer started with title before script
Most movie producers like to start with a story but Samuel Z. Arkoff usually started with just a title and the movie followed later
Terrifying reign of Nero ended in assisted suicide
HE is considered one of the most vile Roman emperors in history. For 13 years, Nero terrorised his empire, persecuting Christians and Jews, neglecting his army, draining his treasury and murdering his family.
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