It is the unsolved mystery that has haunted Sydney for 40 years — a father and his two sons, together with four school mates, perished after a fire broke out inside the popular Ghost Train ride at Sydney’s Luna Park on the night of June 9, 1979.
She had packed three dresses and a few pairs of nylon stockings. But it wasn’t until she arrived in Vietnam in August 1966 that Patricia “Little Pattie” Thompson realised it was going to be too hot to wear nylons
Oscar Garden was a complex man but he created aviation history with a great solo flight from England to Australia. His daughter Mary Garden reveals the story of his great adventure and the difficulties of family life with him
Geoffrey Blainey grew up in country Australia and his love for this land and its people is stronger than ever as he approaches his 90th birthday. His memoir Before I Forget is a window into the early years of a remarkable life
OBSERVERS were surprised when Roald Amundsen joined the 1928 search for his rival, Italian aviator Umberto Nobile.
WHEN Edweard Muybridge set up an experiment to settle an argument over what happened with a horse’s legs while it galloped, his innovations had an effect far beyond determining the motion of a horse
THE crew of the Flying Fortress called their plane, Every Morning Fix’n, because they were constantly repairing it to keep it in the air. But that name had a terrible irony when it crashed killing 40 US servicemen in 1943.
GERMAN air ace Helmut Lent survived hundreds of sorties with Allied pilots only to die on a routine flight in Germany.
Most movie producers like to start with a story but Samuel Z. Arkoff usually started with just a title and the movie followed later
HE is considered one of the most vile Roman emperors in history. For 13 years, Nero terrorised his empire, persecuting Christians and Jews, neglecting his army, draining his treasury and murdering his family.
PRESIDENT Gerald Ford thought Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, who pulled a pistol on him in 1975, was “an aberration”.
EVIL portents in the year 793 preceded a seaborne raid of Lindisfarne, an island off the coast of the medieval Kingdom of Northumbria. It would mark the start of the Viking era in England.
WHEN aspiring film director Gilbert Kay heard a gas station attendant tell a story about army buddies robbing Vegas Casinos he thought he might be on a winner
WHEN news of Robert Falcon Scott’s death in the Antarctic filtered out to the world one of the last people to hear was his wife Kathleen.
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