SHE was the great niece of Queen Victoria and married Victoria’s grandson to become the last Empress of Germany, but Augusta Victoria’s heart was broken by the downfall of her husband and the death of her youngest child.
Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of The State Hermitage Museum in Russia, laments the fact that foreign dignitaries ask him more about the Hermitage’s cats than they do about its Rembrandts.
HOLLYWOOD loves its remakes. But there IS one classic that has been done several times — A Star is Born.
A CONFIDENT sex goddess on screen but a shy girl in home own time, Rita Hayworth hid some secrets.
WHILE Donald Trump causes ructions over recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel a century ago an army cook refused to accept the surrender of the city
TOMMY Wiseau’s film The Room was so bad that it became a cult classic. It has even inspired a new film about the making of one of the great stinkers of all time.
Three floods couldn’t stop William Arnott from baking and he rose from those disasters to found a biscuit making giant
When police officer Constable Ian Harris confronted a driver of a stolen vehicle he had no idea he would soon bring down one of Australia’s most notorious thieves.
South African heart transplant pioneer Christiaan Barnard became as famous for breaking hearts as he did for mending them in the decades after his controversial operation at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town 50 years ago tomorrow.
It is 40 years since the last men walked on the moon, when Apollo 17 launched geologist Jack Schmitt to the orange dirt in Taurus-Littrow Valley.
In 1967 pop star Jimmie Rodgers was found badly injured on a Los Angeles roadside, what happened remains a mystery
When the convict-laden British ship Emu set sail in 1812 it could never have imagined it would fall into the hands of American pirates.
Prince Harry’s engagement to Meghan Markle is not the first romance between an English royal and an actor.
When the RAF Stirling bomber piloted by Australian Ron Middleton took off 75 years ago today, it would fly into VC history.
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