Floods couldn’t sink Arnott’s biscuit dream
Three floods couldn’t stop William Arnott from baking and he rose from those disasters to found a biscuit making giant
Today In History
Dramatic last stand of public enemy ‘Jockey’
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.
Heart transplant pioneer practised what he preached
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.
Last Apollo flight put a scientist on the moon
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.
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Comedic chameleon was one of a kind
British comic genius Peter Sellers could change his persona at the drop of a hat, but suffered from an identity problem that would be his downfall
Women fought to tell the stories of war
Australian women have been largely left out of the record of war correspondents but they fought long and hard to tell their stories.
Haynes’ predecessor worked for a tenner and cake
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Vietnamese freedom born in bloodshed
While the world was celebrating the capitulation of the Japanese in 1945. the Vietnamese were preparing to fight their own war
RIP: How Wes Craven re-defined horror
Although he made his name as a horror film director, the late Wes Craven had much more to offer with his celluloid art
White death came with a roar that shook the earth
Fifty years ago the world was shocked by the death of construction workers in a Swiss avalanche
Sixty years of (very) tall tales
The book that inspired the search for superlative facts and the urge to break records was inspired by an argument about birds.
Long and bumpy ride for the Wall Street of the East
When China’s financial markets sneeze the world worries it will catch cold.
Civilisation washed away by wrath of Katrina
Ten years ago today as Hurricane Katrina first hit the mainland of the United States, few could have imagined the horror it would leave in its wake.
Sci-fi queen a mystery in life, tragic in death
The origin of her literary pseudonym was likely the only sweet aspect to the life of sci-fi author Alice Sheldon, born 100 years ago today.
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