Crusading journo stopped rot in US meat industry
When young journalist Upton Sinclair went undercover in 1904 he helped expose shocking secrets about the food Americans were eating
Today In History
Losers turned ugly after Creole woman won first beauty pageant
While we like to think we are far more diverse in what we consider beautiful these days in 1888 a European beauty contest chose a creole woman as the most beautiful girl on the planet
Life was bittersweet for chocolate clan adoptees
UNDER the sugar-coated story of the Darrell Lea confectionery empire lies a bittersweet family saga
UK industrialist Bentley’s cars dominated at Le Mans circuit
WITH support from elite Bentley Boys, Walter Bentley, born 130 years ago, pushed his big saloons across the line.
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Electric razors a cut above flint blades and pumice
American soldier and inventor Jacob Schick, born 140 years ago today patented the first electric razor in 1928.
Wray was Kong’s ‘bride’ to the end of her days
WHEN King Kong first appeared on screen in 1933 he was made all the more terrifying to audiences by the vocal prowess of “scream queen” Fay Wray.
Catchy ’60s pop songs were licensed to Brill
Carole King was one of dozens of composers who created the Brill Building sound.
Milton Hershey and his chocolate factory
Milton Hershey founded a chocolate empire after having success with caramels.
Biko’s death was a cry for freedom
WHEN Steve Biko died of a brain haemorrhage in prison cell it sparked outrage around the world
Victoria’s beloved clerk evicted after her death
Favours bestowed by Queen Victoria on her Indian servant Hafiz Abdul Karim enlivened gossip columns on both sides of the Atlantic, thanks to the syndicated pen of Marquise de Fontenoy.
Taking ice to Lithgow was first step in frozen food trade
FOR those familiar with Lithgow, pastoralist and wool auction entrepreneur Thomas Mort’s picnic train that left Central Station in September 1875, carrying frozen food for 300 people, was perhaps perplexing.
Obscure politician put the rose in Rosehill
THE crowd that had gathered at Rosehill Racecourse on April 27, 1929 heard some good things about the large, New Zealand-born chestnut gelding. They were not disappointed.
Farm killer last to die by France’s guillotine
Forty years ago this week, France conducted its last execution by guillotine. A handsome Tunisian immigrant named Hamida Djandoubi was led to a bladed contraption and his head placed in the stock before the blade dropped quickly and ended his life.
Third-born Alice was haunted by tragedy
WITH news that William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are expecting their third child, British bookies are taking bets on the name with the most likely being Alice, after another famous third-born royal.
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