Japanese admiral downed by long-range Lightning strike
A MESSAGE intercepted 75 years ago began the US mission to shoot down Imperial Japanese Navy commander Isoroku Yamamoto.
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Body snatchers made a killing for anatomy
WHEN medical schools in the 19th century needed bodies for anatomical studies, there were some ghoulish operators willing to supply them.
Untimely obituary led to Nobel prize legacy
INVENTOR Alfred Nobel is said to have read his own obituary, which spurred him to create the Nobel prize
Kennedy matriarch still stands by her man
WHEN college student Ethel Skakel took a skiing holiday in 1945 she met a handsome naval officer, brother of a school friend. The meeting changed her life and wedded her to a political destiny.
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Evil thoughts ended in Texas massacre
IT took 40 years for the University of Texas to commission a plaque to remember “the tragedy of August 1, 1966”, although it has no details of the first mass shooting on an American college campus, that killed 14 people and injured another 30.
German espionage blasted at heart of the Big Apple
A CENTURY ago a powerful explosion rocked the shores of New York and New Jersey, an act of terrorism by German infiltrators.
Napoleon never lived to see his arch of triumph finished
ONE of the great monuments of Paris turns 180 years old this week
Time’s ghostess with mostess lent her voice to movie stars
SHE was known as the ghost voice. But Marni Nixon, who died on Sunday, was probably the most famous movie star we only ever heard.
Housing athletes has always been an Olympian challenge
RIO has come under fire for the quality of the athletes’ accommodation but it still better than army barracks or tents at past Olympics.
Horror flick is all fright on the night
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No white feather for grocer who went to war in France
As reports reached home of more than 360 Australian casualties at Pozieres in battles on the night of July 28, 1916, a young grocer at Bundaberg had another debate with his mother.
Born to be wild, music guru totally embraced the funk
Singer Prince called George Clinton the “father of this funk mothership.”
Brilliant clerk turned old news into the news of the day
News travelled slowly until Paul Reuter revolutionised its delivery in the 1850s.
Melania Trump latest in a long line of political borrowers
Melania Trump’s suspicious echoing of the words of Michelle Obama are just the latest case of plagiarism in political speech writing
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