Everest garbage would shock conqueror Hillary
The intrepid was not prepared for the worldwide excitement when he and Tenzing Norgay made it to the summit of Mount Everest
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Crash mystery a shadow over JFK’s lunar legacy
As the world prepared to celebrate one of the greatest visions of his brother’s presidency, US senator Ted Kennedy was embroiled in a tragic controversy
65 hours trapped as wife dies next to him
“I can hear you!” Those four words turned a nation’s collective mourning into hope and joy as ski instructor Stuart Diver was found buried deep in the rubble of the Thredbo landslide that had taken the lives of 18 people, including his wife.
Strike saved locals as fragile city crumbled
Pokie players at the Newcastle Workers Club suddenly saw their world go dark on December 28, 1989 as the building collapsed during a devastating earthquake
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Rocket man dreamt of postal service by rocket
THE eccentric young Austrian Friedrich Schmiedl failed in his attempt to launch a rocket from a balloon high over Graz ninety years ago, but he left his mark on the history of rocketry
Intrepid Canadian seafarer the first to sail world alone
WHEN a small sloop made its way into Newport Harbour, Rhode Island, in 1898 it had to negotiate mines and a warship, but skipper Joshua Slocum and his boat Spray passed through into legend, as they completed the first solo circumnavigation of the globe 120 years ago today.
Sky was no limit for Nazi aircraft designer
WHEN Will Messerschmitt was forced to stop making Nazi planes at the end of World War II he turned to making quirky little three-wheeled cars.
Italian ‘saint’ was first woman to earn a doctorate
WHEN an a mother superior stumbled across the neglected headstone of a 17th century woman she did some research and found that Elena Piscopia had been the first woman to earn a doctorate
Australians helped recover art treasures stolen by Nazis
WHEN Allied troops recovered Michelangelo’s priceless statue of the Madonna and Child from a Nazi cache in Austrian salt mines, an Australian art dealer was among those who first examined it
Tragedy of war seen through eyes of author
WHEN the novel Im Westen Nichts Neues was first published in serial form in a magazine, the World War I story was an unexpected success. However, it would also bring trouble for its author Erich Maria Remarque
Aussie golf legend one of the all-time greats
OBITUARY: The 23 year old Melbourne golfer had tried to crack the British Open, coming runner up twice, but Peter Thomson finally scored his victory in 1954
Ferris became a big wheel as an inventor
PEOPLE say that you shouldn’t try to reinvent the wheel, but that didn’t stop American engineer George Ferris from doing just that.
Sydney’s early markets were far from super
MAJOR supermarkets are ending the era of the plastic bag, which means either a return to the past in the form of reusable bags and baskets or a leap into the online future
Martinis have been shaken and stirred for 150 years
TODAY is World Martini Day when we celebrate the classic cocktail loved by Hemingway, James Bond and Capt ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce.
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