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Sad truth behind legend of star soprano’s no show

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Sad truth behind legend of star soprano’s no show

Few realised what was really going on behind the scenes the night a brave young chorus girl stepped up to save the night for Sydney opera fans.

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Tricks our first magicians played on the entire world

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Tricks our first magicians played on the entire world

From the Great Levante to Murray the Escapologist and The Amazing Mr Rooklyn, Australia has a daring history of magicians who entranced and entertained.

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The site of the crash of an A89 at Richmond Air Base in 1959 which killed all eight crewmen on board

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Mystery still remains over Richmond Base tragedy

Eight young, brave and dedicated family men lost their lives just minutes into a routine flight in 1959. And to this day, there is no conclusive cause of the crash.

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For Saturday History The Garage Girls and their drivers in 1944

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Honouring our ‘get on with it’ women of service

Dispensing cakes and cracking codes, the Wasbies and the Garage Girls went to war for Australia. Now two new books are shining a light on their stories.

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21Jan99 Top nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs who was sentenced in Britain to 14 years jail for telling Russian agents how to build the atomic bomb. p/ File Photo 9.10.58 b/w /Nuclear /Science

Spies put atomic bomb in hands of the Soviets

When the Soviets successfully tested their first atomic bomb 70 years ago today it sent seismic and political shockwaves around the world

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Journalist and playwright Maurine Dallas Watkins in the 1920s. She is famous for her play Chicago on which the musical is based.

Real-life crime of passion inspired Chicago the musical

When Beulah Annan shot dead her lover in 1924 she could never have imagined the act would make her the basis of a character in a hit musical

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Morris Mini-Minor motor car and the mini-dress are back in fashion as popular as ever, thirty years on. Finesse model Rosemary and a 30-year-old Mini, 06 Sep 1991.

Fuel crisis inspired Mini classic with a big heart

It was a little car designed to appeal to consumers during a fuel crisis, but the Mini Minor went on to be a major force in motoring

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Allan Pinkerton, founder of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency 1861. 1860s historical private eye (Pic: Pinkerton Archives, Library of Congress)

Pioneer private eye had own brush with the law

He changed the way criminals were caught but Allan Pinkerton had his own brushes with the authorities

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FILE- recent photo showing the Kursk nuclear submarine at a harbor at a navy base near Vidyayevo in the Barents Sea near Severomorsk. (AP Photo/ITAR-TASS) shipping ships russian armed forces navy

World waited as Kursk crew drew last breaths

When a torpedo exploded aboard Russian submarine Kursk in 2000 it resulted in an emergency that captured the world’s attention.

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US Naval officer George Washington de Long in 1879 before leaving on his disastrous expedition to the Arctic. Public domain image courtesy US Naval History and Heritage Command

Quest for North Pole doomed before it began

When pack ice sent George Washington de Long’s ship to the bottom of the Arctic sea he made a valiant but ultimately futile attempt to get all of his expedition team back to safety

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Trauma blighted Hollywood’s dream lovers

Trauma blighted Hollywood’s dream lovers

FANS never doubted their love as handsome crooner Bobby Darin and teen beauty Sandra Dee (left) set up house in a Hollywood Hills mansion after a whirlwind romance ended in marriage in December 1960.

Portrait of poet William Henry

Our forgotten bush poet was a great Scot

As a bush balladeer William Ogilvie stood on a par with Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, yet today, in the land that inspired some of his best works, he is relatively little known.

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Aust mannequin Shirleen Manning who was killed during the sinking of the Marchioness ferry after it was stuck by the dredger 'Bowdelle' in the river Thames, London, England.

Aussie hopefuls lost in Thames party tragedy

The Marchioness had survived Dunkirk but on August 20, 1989, met a tragic fate while cruising the Thames

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Horseracing - Undated pic of racehorse Fine Cotton ridden by jockey Mark Strip racing at the Gold Coast. Fine Cotton was involved in the ring-in scandal at Eagle Farm on 18 Aug 1984. (Pic by unidentified staff photographer)

Race stopped nation for all the wrong reasons

The horse was orange but needed to be dark brown to fool the stewards and that was just the start of the Fine Cotton fiasco

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