Pioneering war painter captured spiritual ruin
ARTIST Evelyn Chapman was forced to give up her successful painting career in 1925 when she married organist/composer George Thalben-Ball.
Today In History
Belgian mystic first woman to visit Lhasa
THE French-Belgian woman dressed as a Tibetan pilgrim might not have passed close inspection, but Alexandra David-Neel was able to sneak her way into Lhasa to become the first western woman to visit the holy city.
UK inventor a pioneer in motoring industry
WHEN he fell on hard times inventor Frederick Lanchester applied for a pension but was knocked back.
Pilot and plane disappeared after seeing ‘metallic object’
ON a fine spring evening 40 years ago a young pilot and his plane vanished near Cape Otway. No trace has ever been found.
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How polio victim lived life to the full despite paralysis
A British man who refused to be confined to hospital after being paralysed is the subject of a new film opening on Boxing Day
Johnson switched us on to Christmas lights
When Edward H. Johnson strung together some coloured bulbs and wrapped them around a pine tree 135 years ago he brought joy to many but frustration to some.
Death of Stooges creator still a mystery
Comedy actor Ted Healy, best known as the man who created the Three Stooges, staggered out of a nightclub 80 years ago and died under mysterious circumstances.
Russian secret police foiled British spy plot
WHEN British intelligence operative Sidney Reilly tried to overthrow the Bolsheviks he didn’t count on their secret police being so effective.
Songs that were never written for Christmas
WHENEVER we hear Jingle Bells it makes us think of Christmas, but the tune was actually written for a Thanksgiving concert
First Aussie Christmas a grim and lonely affair
ELEVEN months after settlement, the makeshift NSW colony at Sydney Cove was a crude and lonely collection of huts as convicts and marines marked their first antipodean Christmas.
Director’s errors sank Titanic a second time
It is one of the world’s favourite films, but Titanic, released 20 years ago this weekend, got some of its history wrong
Hollywood love story better than any movie
From art student to design assistant, how model Elise Kornbrath accidentally became glamorous movie star Elyse Knox.
Success of ‘woebegone yarn’ came too late for soul king
HE “had the audience spinning like a chicken on a spit”, enthused one oberservor after Otis Redding closed the Monterey Pop Festival in California in June 1967.
Speed of sound travel a costly joint-venture
AMONG the destinations desperate for supersonic flight speeds, Australia ranks among prime candidates. But the sleek beak-nosed British-French Concorde jets that cut travel time between and London and New York to less than four hours only twice visited Australia.
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