Success of ‘woebegone yarn’ came too late for soul king
HE “had the audience spinning like a chicken on a spit”, enthused one oberservor after Otis Redding closed the Monterey Pop Festival in California in June 1967.
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Speed of sound travel a costly joint-venture
AMONG the destinations desperate for supersonic flight speeds, Australia ranks among prime candidates. But the sleek beak-nosed British-French Concorde jets that cut travel time between and London and New York to less than four hours only twice visited Australia.
Holy city surrendered to British army cook
WHILE Donald Trump causes ructions over recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel a century ago an army cook refused to accept the surrender of the city
The bad movies that became cult classics
TOMMY Wiseau’s film The Room was so bad that it became a cult classic. It has even inspired a new film about the making of one of the great stinkers of all time.
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How Henry VIII’s wife became his sister
Half a millennium ago a woman was born who would survive the murderous wrath of Henry VIII
Stonehenge changed hands for bargain price of just £6600
Given it was on the market 16 years earlier for £125,000, English lawyer Cecil Chubb bagged a bargain when he picked up Stonehenge at a 1915 auction for £6600, two years after Druid’s cursed the relic’s owner.
From the little corporal to a life in Sydney
Single mother Lucia Elizabeth Abell called Napoleon “Bony”. He ran off with her ballgown after she accused him of cheating at cards.
First chiropractor made a deaf man hear
Daniel David Palmer believed healing was all a matter of manipulating the spine but the medical fraternity was sceptical.
Women often silent but always a power behind the throne PMs’ wives often silent but always a power behind the throne
Lucy Turnbull has joined of one of Australia’s most elite clubs. But expect her be a lot more active than some of its past members.
Lost In Space went where no family series had gone before
It had space ships, stranded castaways, monsters and a robot. How could this pioneering TV series, which paved the way for the likes of star Trek, not be a hit?
Dahl used power of words to waltz his Matilda
The letters of Roald Dahl are being collected for a new book to celebrate next year’s centenary of the famous writer’s birth
Lascaux’s prehistoric cave of wonders discovered by a dog
When Marcel Ravidat went out hunting for a medieval tunnel he never expected to find a prehistoric art gallery
Even Hitchcock went wild for our zoos
EXOTIC animals have long captured the hearts of Sydneysiders along with some high-profile visitors, including one famed film director.
Elizabeth steered monarchy through tides of change
Although she seems to have coasted to a record-breaking reign Queen Elizabeth II has not always had an easy time of it
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