Gaza could have been like Singapore. It dug tunnels instead
Singapore’s revolution from an impoverished Third World outpost was achieved in not much more than a generation. Gaza had the same opportunity, but chose to pass.
Singapore’s revolution from an impoverished Third World outpost was achieved in not much more than a generation. Gaza had the same opportunity, but chose to pass.
The story of the unlikely global hit is well known. Less well known is that Dolce has worked all his life on two other obsessions: poetry and cooking
Gerry Hand was so respected that the Hawke supporter was included in Paul Keating’s first ministry, despite not voting for him.
Two decades ago the supersonic, delta-winged masterpiece flew for the last time. Its short hop to a Bristol museum could not have been further from the jet’s brief golden age shuffling the newsworthy between London, New York and Paris.
Lee Harvey Oswald was a shiftless, self-pitying, wife-beating, uneducated loser. But he was his mother’s son.
From the moment US president John F. Kennedy was assassinated 60 years ago today, conspiracy theories were rife – and no wonder given the sloppy investigations.
Elinor Otto was one of the first women the US dubbed Rosie the Riveter. She helped win the war, then stayed on until she was 95.
It was Frank Borman’s warning to Richard Nixon’s speechwriter that led William Safire to quickly pen words his boss would never utter.
Germany’s hyperinflation event in 1923 ruined an economy and ripped apart a society – paving the way for the rise of Adolf Hitler.
No doubt many Australians are wondering why those with no ethnic connection to anyone in the Middle East would express sympathy for Hamas and those who support it?
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