Havoc on the harbour
A FESTIVE mood on Sydney Harbour turned dark when a ferry loaded with people saying goodbye to a warship capsized
Today In History
The child killers who broke Britain’s heart
Three-year-old James Bulger vanished 25 years ago from a Merseyside butcher shop as he waited with his mother.
Gendarmes early worshippers at the banned Lourdes grotto
PETITE teen Bernadette Soubirous reported visions of a lady at Lourdes 160 years ago on a chill Thursday, February 11, 1858.
‘Damned’ sultan died before fall of his empire
A BRITISH expert called him “mean” and “untrustworthy” but when he died in 1918, former Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid was a very wealthy man.
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The real story of the Anne Frank diary
HE lost his family in death camps in World War II but Otto Frank had his daughter’s inspirational words to bring some solace.
From Oscar to obscurity
THE Oscars can do wonders for a movie at the box office, they can also do wonders for the career of an up-and-coming actor. But some have that the little gold statuette didn’t always illuminate their way.
Ron Barassi rucks up 80 years
BEFORE his North Melbourne protege Sam Kekovich delivers the guest speech at an 80th birthday lunch for Ron Barassi, the guest of honour will likely have completed a workout and sudoku puzzle.
Who killed PM Olof Palme?
WHEN shots rang out on a Stockholm street 30 years ago it was the start of a murder mystery that remains unsolved today.
The day Krushchev toppled a ‘god’
WHEN Nikita Khrushchev gave a special speech at a closed session of the Congress of Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956, he dropped a bombshell about his predecessor Joseph Stalin.
Pursuit of beauty cuts deep
THE niche body art practice of eyeball tattooing — where ink is injected into the white of the eye — has now been regulated by the state government. But like many extreme procedures, it has ancient origins.
US politics no place for the faint-hearted
THE US presidential race can be a long — and expensive — slog. Jeb Bush joins a long list of presidential hopefuls who couldn’t quite go the distance in the race to the Oval Office.
Lola Montez and ‘war of the whip’
THE performances of Irish dancer Lola Montez, entertained Sydney and Melbourne, but on February 20, 1856, miners in Ballarat woke to news of the “war of the whip”, after Montez horsewhipped newspaper editor Henry Seekamp in a hotel bar the night before.
You say ‘tomato’, I say ‘tomato’
People once thought tomatoes were poisonous. So to prove a point, in 1820 Colonel Robert Johnson consumed an entire basket with no ill effects. The tomato is now a staple of all cuisines.
Dalton Trumbo’s triumph
HE was one of the “Hollywood Ten”, jailed for contempt and barred from work, but screenwriter Dalton Trumbo found a way to defy his black-listing.
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