Original Charlie’s Angels trio dismissed as ‘jiggle TV’
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Today In History
On this day: Winston Churchill’s great prison escape
The future British PM was an ambitious young journalist caught up in a war zone when he pulled off a breakout worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster
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
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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Author stuck with bad opening to good fantasy
It had an uncompromisingly terrible opening line but the novel A Wrinkle in time by Madeleine L’Engle, born a century ago today, became a bestseller and had a huge impact on its fans
One-eyed pilot soared into the record books
One-eyed pilot Wiley Post not only broke the record for flying around the world, he was the first to do it solo
Real Robin Hood lost in legend and ballads
Hollywood loves to remake the legend of Robin Hood, with yet another reimaging due out this week. But for all his popularity the man himself remains surprisingly elusive
Onassis’ poor little rich girl died of broken heart
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US congressman’s fact-finding tour to Jonestown was his last
CONGRESSMAN Leo Ryan was famous for his fact-finding missions, but in Guyana in 1978 he went to investigate a religious cult in Guyana with fatal results
Aussie hero earnt VC at Battle of Sattelberg
A TINY village at the top of a hill became a Japanese stronghold that was captured with the help of the VC winning bravery of Thomas Derrick
Agent fooled woman into being a Nazi ‘spy’
WHEN two young women in Britain agreed to help recruit people as Nazi spies they never realised that their Gestapo spy handler was actually an MI5 agent
Steele Rudd wrote about his own life in bush yarns
IN his dedication from his first book, author Steele Rudd paid tribute to the people on the land. Far from being myth making, they were his own people and his own stories.
Sandwich relished his role as public servant
WHEN the 4th Earl of Sandwich, found it hard to tear himself away from a game of cards, he asked for some cold meat sandwiched between bread. Although he was not the first person to eat this way, it simply became known as a sandwich.
Air pioneer’s greatest mystery his own death
When an Aero Topografica plane taking off from a Lisbon seaplane base crashed on its way to Madeira it was the sad end to the eventful life of Jim Broadbent, one of Australia’s great lesser-known pioneer aviators.
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