Songs that were never written for Christmas
WHENEVER we hear Jingle Bells it makes us think of Christmas, but the tune was actually written for a Thanksgiving concert
Today In History
First Aussie Christmas a grim and lonely affair
ELEVEN months after settlement, the makeshift NSW colony at Sydney Cove was a crude and lonely collection of huts as convicts and marines marked their first antipodean Christmas.
Director’s errors sank Titanic a second time
It is one of the world’s favourite films, but Titanic, released 20 years ago this weekend, got some of its history wrong
Hollywood love story better than any movie
From art student to design assistant, how model Elise Kornbrath accidentally became glamorous movie star Elyse Knox.
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Greatest maritime mysteries: Ghost ships and disappearances
The loss of the cargo ship El Faro during Hurricane Joaquin is the latest in a long line of maritime mysteries.
George Street’s long road from track to transport hub
The heart of Sydney has been fed by the same major artery for more than two centuries but this week all that changed.
Cowboys’ home town owes its existence to Sydney merchant
Townsville was founded by a Sydney entrepreneur who needed a port for his cowboys
How the Martians invaded Hollywood
Mars has been the flavour of the week — in both the science and movie worlds – but our obsession with the red planet goes back a long way.
Pioneer names live on in Sydney’s dead centre
The residents of St John’s Cemetery Parramatta gave their names to Sydney’s suburbs. Now their burial records are available online for the first time.
Canine sports often tainted by cruelty
Dogs may be man’s best friend but in the sporting world man has not always been very friendly to dogs
Plenty of heat in Typhoon Tyson’s style
Not even a knock on the head from Ray Lindwall could prevent Frank Tyson from living up to his nickname in the 1954-55 Ashes series
Macbeth not the monster of The Bard’s tale
Shakespeare’s Macbeth has entertained audiences for 400 years, but the tale of bloody regicide bears little resemblance to the life of the real Scottish king of almost 1000 years ago.
Annie cycled around world and into the record books
When Annie Kopchovsky took off on her cycle around the world she carried only her clothes and a pearl handled revolver
Mongol leader Kublai Khan a man of war and poetry
Mongol leader was immortalised in a poem composed by a drug addled Englishman
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