Pioneering female director was ahead of her time
Actor Ida Lupino, the second woman admitted to the Director’s Guild of America, was born a century ago.
Today In History
Four chaplains made the ultimate sacrifice
FOUR chaplains met on a troop ship, became friends and madea noble sacrifice when the ship sank in 1943.
Pulitzer picture that defined Vietnam War
Fifty years ago during the heat of the Tet offensive, American snapper Eddie Adams took a Pulitzer Prize winning photo
From Pleasant Island to smallest republic
A crowd gathered in Nauru 50 years ago today to celebrate independence, but many Nauruans were ambivalent.
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He was a she who murdered his wife
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‘I had no one waiting for me’
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NASA’S fatal miscalculation
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True blue, Aussie as, and forgotten
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Advance Australia … wait a sec
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Psychic failed to find the Beaumont kids
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Feud behind Barber’s disastrous opening night
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Colditz escapee survived the Nazis to die at Irish hands
Only four POWs had successfully fled the German fortress when English Territorial Army Lieutenant Airey Neave and his Dutch partner Tony Luteyn walked out on January 6, 1942.
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