War hero vanished in Bermuda Triangle
Sir Arthur Coningham might have had some idea that he was undertaking a dangerous flight but he could not have known that he would vanish in a spot later known as the Bermuda Triangle.
Today In History
Violent enemies killed ‘great soul’ of peace
TO westerners he was a smiling, bespectacled saint, preaching nonviolent civil disobedience to free India from the shackles of the British Empire. But during those independence struggles, it was a political foe who killed Gandhi on January 30, 1948.
Pageant sparked ‘day of mourning’ protest
In 1938 aborigines asked whether consciences were clear in regard to treatment of Australian blacks by Australian whites.
Pollock’s lover survived to tell horror crash tale
Ruth Kligman was Jackson Pollock’s lover in the final months of his life, surviving the car crash that killed the American artist in 1956.
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Our Circular Quay turns 60
COMMUTERS had been waiting 30 years but the first passenger train finally arrived at Circular Quay station 60 years ago today, the 5.50am from Mortdale.
True story of the Danish Girl
Was it really possible, Danish artist Einar Wegener asked himself the first time he posed in makeup as a female model for his artist-wife Gerda, “that I could be so good looking?”
Brooklyn train smash left bodies strewn along rail line
While victims’ families, survivors and rescuers gathered this week to remember the rail tragedy that claimed 83 lives at Granville in January 1977, 72 years ago today it was the village of Brooklyn that was in mourning.
Housing fashions come and go on the streets of Sydney
In a city boasting such planning blunders as Blues Point Tower few can disagree with NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes’ desire to confine ugly buildings to the attic.
Court’s young man in a hurry craved fame in rugby league
Although “earning more money than the prime minister” by his mid-20s, left-handed tennis star Tony Roche’s secret ambition was to win fame as a rugby league great.
Harry Potter star Alan Rickman dies at 69
Whether he was tormenting Harry Potter or breaking Emma Thompson’s heart, the late Alan Rickman was the screen villian we loved to love.
Bizet’s pearl failed to shine with the critics
Georges Bizet’s first full opera premiered in Paris in September 1863. But audiences would not see his tale about best friends Nadir and Zurga, who both fall in love at first sight with the beautiful Leila, for another 23 years.
Posthumous hits played on as fans listened through tears
The world was still crying when Buddy Holly’s final recording hit top spot on British charts, earning him the unfortunate distinction of becoming the first artist with a posthumous No. 1 hit in UK chart history.
Bunnies by the billions thanks to one gun-loving Englishman
Opera The Rabbits, which premieres in Sydney this week, parallels Australia’s destructive rabbit plagues with the impact of white settlement on indigenous populations.
2015: Tragedies and tumbles
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