Real Robin Hood lost in legend and ballads
Hollywood loves to remake the legend of Robin Hood, with yet another reimaging due out this week. But for all his popularity the man himself remains surprisingly elusive
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Onassis’ poor little rich girl died of broken heart
When Christina Onassis
US congressman’s fact-finding tour to Jonestown was his last
CONGRESSMAN Leo Ryan was famous for his fact-finding missions, but in Guyana in 1978 he went to investigate a religious cult in Guyana with fatal results
Aussie hero earnt VC at Battle of Sattelberg
A TINY village at the top of a hill became a Japanese stronghold that was captured with the help of the VC winning bravery of Thomas Derrick
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Engineering fashions fit for the space age
IT was the decade when Parisian tailor-architect Pierre Cardin and engineer Andre Courreges put industrial design onto fashion runways, even topping Audrey Hepburn with a white astronaut-style helmet in How To Steal A Million.
No mercy for sons of executed Soviet spies
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Gordon built theatre in a Kirribilli boatshed
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Protesters massacred for freedom of press
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Vertigo perhaps Hitchcock’s finest work
Citizen Kane topped film polls for 50 years until Hitchcock’s Vertigo knocked it off the top spot in 2012
Unarmed Red Cross warriors born of battle
DESCRIBED as unarmed warriors, the only protection for battlefield medics is their “distinctive sign, a white armlet with a red cross”.
King invited observers to witness a royal birth
NITPICKING about the Duchess of Cambridge’s impeccable grooming when she left hospital six hours after the birth of her third child pales in comparison to the public spite hurled at Queen Mary of Modena after the birth of her first surviving son.
Paris opera house accident inspired Leroux’s Phantom
WHEN a counterweight crashed through the roof of a Paris opera house, Gaston Leroux stored the story away to help create the Phantom of the Opera.
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