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Diving ‘child wonder’ kept tragedy to himself

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Diving ‘child wonder’ kept tragedy to himself

From childhood Arthur O’Connor was fearless on the high-diving board but a traumatic family loss was something he rarely spoke about.

Why Maccas catered Aussie menu to local tastes

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Why Maccas catered Aussie menu to local tastes

While many derided the fast food chain for Americanising our food, the original McDonald’s menu was designed to please local palates.

Brazen attempt to rob gravediggers’ pay at cemetery

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Brazen attempt to rob gravediggers’ pay at cemetery

As gravediggers toiled in the mud to exhume the bodies of American servicemen killed during World War II for relocation to the US, a brazen robbery was being plotted.

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Truth behind colonial naming of Manly

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Truth behind colonial naming of Manly

The real meaning of this beachside suburb’s name is often misinterpreted but can be dated back to when Governor Arthur Phillip arrived to Australia in 1788.

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OCTOBER 1999 : Nicole Retzler, curator of exhibitions at the Farmers Museum in Cooperstown, New York, looks over the Cardiff Giant exhibit 10/99. USA

On this day: How farmer pulled off greatest hoax in history

Crowds flocked to see the enormous petrified figure dug out of a Cardiff field even when its veracity was questioned

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Ivan Pavlov demonstrating his experiment with a dog and conditioned responses in the 1890s. Public domain image

Hungry dogs put Pavlov on track for Nobel Prize

When Ivan Pavlov noticed dogs in his laboratory drooled at the expectation of food, it inspired a revolutionary series of experiments which had many implications for modern science

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(L-r) Arnna, Grant and Jane Beaumont. Filed Sep 1966. Supplied family album style pic of The Beaumont children, Jane, 9, Arnna, 7, and Grant, 4, who disappeared from Glenelg, SA, on 26 Jan 1966. (Copyright unknown)

Beaumonts’ mother took heartache to the grave

Shy Adelaide mum Nancy Beaumont lost her children and eventually her marriage to one of Australia’s most intruguing unsolved mysteries

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Scene from the film Dunkirk. Warner Bros Pictures.

The 20 best World War II battle movies ever made

World War War II battle movies were a Hollywood staple that became a joke, then along came Saving Private Ryan. So what films make the list of best 20 WWII battle films ever made?

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Alexander Hamilton portrait by John Trumbull 1806. Public domain

Today in history: Alexander Hamilton appointed to US Treasury

The banknote with his face on it and the hit musical based on his life were still years away but the long association between Alexander Hamilton and the US Treasury began on this day 230 years ago.

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PIRATE: SEPTEMBER 3, 1939 : Prime minister Robert Menzies declares war on Germany during 03/09/39 radio broadcast after Britain had declared war on Germany. Pic courtesy of Australian War Memorial. Australia's First Century Historical P/

Day we went to war against Hitler

When the new prime minister of Australia Robert Menzies walked into a radio studio on September 3, 1939 he had the weight of the nation on his shoulders, declaring war on Germany

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Frank Collin (centre) leaves his Nazi headquarters heading to a rally in a park in Chicago September 1978. UPI Photo

World’s largest village took on neo-Nazi haters

When Neo-Nazis tried to hold a march through the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, the normally quiet village made the news around the world

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**This picture has a scanned reverse - see associated content at the bottom of the details window** Albert Facey aka AB Facey, author.

Extraordinary legacy of an ordinary man

The roughly typed manuscript tied up with string didn’t promise much but it delivered a small publisher a bestseller

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Unsung vaccination hero saved millions of lives

When Dr Maurice Hilleman read about a flu outbreak in Hong Kong in 1957 he sounded the alarm about a coming pandemic

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A photograph of Zulu king Cetshwayo or Cetewayo circa 1875.

Proud Zulu nation ended with fall of defiant king

As long as King Cetshwayo remained at large there was still a chance of resistance from the Zulu nation but the British finally got their man 140 years ago today

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