Home to some of the most colourful stories in the rugby league game, few people know Henson Park in Marrickville is also the site of eight child drownings. The site used to be a brick pit and once it filled with rainwater, became a magnet for young boys. MORE: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
The portrait of a beautiful young French woman, visiting Australia as part of a major exhibition next year, has thrown out many tempting clues for art historians.
Australia’s first NFL recruit Colin Ridgway had a fair share of good luck during his life, but it ran out in tragic circumstances when he was shot dead in his Texas home in a murder that remains unsolved almost three decades later.
As the world lives in dire fear of a global pandemic starting from cases of coronavirus in China, we can still take some lessons from past outbreaks of disease.
It took an Australian inventor to give women a comfortable alternative to the form of fashion torture known as the corset
Baseball star Lou Gehrig had a terrible season in 1938 but when things got worse in 1939 he discovered the reason was that he had contracted an incurable disease
The bottle sniffer in the Sydney soft drink factory did a bit of modelling on the side and it was his habit of taking off his shirt that earned him his big break
Charlotte Speedway was the venue for an exciting new concept in motor racing, designed to find the best driver rather than the best car
Bastard Henry FitzRoy was ultimately denied the throne despite enjoying the favour of his father
In 1846 writers Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer hit upon a recipe for a bestseller about a demonic barber who murders his clients and has them baked into pies
A crowd gathered in front of Saint-Pierre prison in Versailles 80 years ago today to see the last public execution by guillotine
In the early hours of June 13, 1944, a strange sound broke the silence. It was the noise of the first V-1 “buzz bomb” landing in England
When a young Jewish girl living in Amsterdam began keeping a diary on her 13th birthday she could never have suspected the impact it might have
When Paul Simon sang a song about the violent death of singer Johnny Ace he added to the legend of the short-lived rocker
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