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
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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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Hinkler waited 10 years for first epic solo flight
Ninety years ago an Australian aviator took off from a London airfield and flew his way in history
Thousands saw Empire Games opening at SCG
A CROWD of 35,000 watched 600 athletes from 15 nations parade at Sydney Cricket Ground to open the 1938 British Empire Games.
Pioneering female director was ahead of her time
Actor Ida Lupino, the second woman admitted to the Director’s Guild of America, was born a century ago.
Four chaplains made the ultimate sacrifice
FOUR chaplains met on a troop ship, became friends and madea noble sacrifice when the ship sank in 1943.
Pulitzer picture that defined Vietnam War
Fifty years ago during the heat of the Tet offensive, American snapper Eddie Adams took a Pulitzer Prize winning photo
From Pleasant Island to smallest republic
A crowd gathered in Nauru 50 years ago today to celebrate independence, but many Nauruans were ambivalent.
War hero vanished in Bermuda Triangle
Sir Arthur Coningham might have had some idea that he was undertaking a dangerous flight but he could not have known that he would vanish in a spot later known as the Bermuda Triangle.
Violent enemies killed ‘great soul’ of peace
TO westerners he was a smiling, bespectacled saint, preaching nonviolent civil disobedience to free India from the shackles of the British Empire. But during those independence struggles, it was a political foe who killed Gandhi on January 30, 1948.
Pageant sparked ‘day of mourning’ protest
In 1938 aborigines asked whether consciences were clear in regard to treatment of Australian blacks by Australian whites.
Pollock’s lover survived to tell horror crash tale
Ruth Kligman was Jackson Pollock’s lover in the final months of his life, surviving the car crash that killed the American artist in 1956.
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