THERE was a great deal of fanfare as the dusty Rolls Royce rumbled toward Damascus. In the car was British officer Lt-Col Colonel Walter Stirling and another British officer, dressed in bedouin robes — Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence.
WHEN a stocky electrician took charge of a strike at his former workplace in August 1980, it became the national Solidarity union movement and would eventually force the puppet Soviet-run Polish government to hold free elections.
THE Hindenburg line seemed for so long to be an unbreakable barrier, but a century ago that barrier was finally breached.
WHEN King George VI’s wife Queen Elizabeth launched her namesake ocean liner, there were mishaps and it took eight years before she could do the job for which it had been made
A FESTIVE mood on Sydney Harbour turned dark when a ferry loaded with people saying goodbye to a warship capsized
Three-year-old James Bulger vanished 25 years ago from a Merseyside butcher shop as he waited with his mother.
PETITE teen Bernadette Soubirous reported visions of a lady at Lourdes 160 years ago on a chill Thursday, February 11, 1858.
A BRITISH expert called him “mean” and “untrustworthy” but when he died in 1918, former Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid was a very wealthy man.
Slush on a runway thwarted two take off attempts before a third sent the British European Airways plane skidding to a fiery end. The crash robbed Manchester United of some of its best players.
A Tesla car ‘driven’ by a dummy is now on a mission to Mars, is just one of the many unusual things that have been sent into space to test the capability of rockets.
Ninety years ago an Australian aviator took off from a London airfield and flew his way in history
A CROWD of 35,000 watched 600 athletes from 15 nations parade at Sydney Cricket Ground to open the 1938 British Empire Games.
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