Two men hold hands in one staged photo, and point guns at each other’s hearts in the next. What happened next was a bizarre case that saw one man dead and the other on trial for murder.
Young mum Jean Lee confessed and was hanged at Pentridge Prison for murder, but was she just covering for her lover?
Before Ned Kelly, the bushranger who most struck fear into the hearts of Australia’s lawmen was Dan Morgan.
Redmond Barry sent Ned Kelly to the gallows, but he never would have sat in judgment if not for some poor judgment of his own.
Shipwrecked in violent seas, young Norwegian captain Anders Harboe-Ree mounted a daring rescue bid to save his crew.
Before he became one of the Eureka rebellion leaders, Edward Thonen’s path took him from high-stakes robbery to high-seas adventure.
Just as St Patrick is said to have banished snakes from Ireland, Lady Jane Franklin — the governor’s wife — made an audacious bid to do the same for Tasmania.
Doctor John White had one job: keep as many prisoners alive as possible during the eight-month voyage. And he did, with many having a greater hope of survival than if they stayed at home.
Adelaide Ironside held court with princes and poets, but it was a startling act amid the Crimean War that first made her famous.
Allan Chick not only survived his ship being torpedoed and sunk during WWII and again when an atomic bomb blew him off a roof, but he went on to marry a Japanese teacher and live to 93.
Entrepreneur and inventor Henry Byron Moore had a showman’s instincts and captured the public’s imagination, transforming the Cup into a world-renowned event.
Wearing a patch over one eye, Victorian street fighter Cecilia Curtain made her money robbing men on Melbourne’s seedy city streets.
When Napoleon’s wife declared she wanted wombats, kangaroos and emus roaming her gardens, nothing could get in her way.
A widely held belief that feared gangsters Squizzy Taylor and rival Snowy Cutmore killed each other in a fierce Carlton shootout could be a farce, as evidence of a third man comes to light.
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