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Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, great US athletes excluded: 1936.
Robert Barty grew up as part of the Indigenous Ngarigo tribe in Bowen in rural Nth Queensland. Daughter Ashleigh Barty is therefore a member of the same Ngarigo people who grew up in Ipswich...
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Protecting Ukraine's cultural heritage from destruction in 2022 war.
beautiful Kul Sharif Mosque located within Kazan's Kremlin/historical citadel. Kazan PalaceUNESCO is the United Nations agency overseeing cultural heritage sites across the world. In 2019, Russia was...
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Dr Livingstone, I presume. New medicine and anti-slavery missionaries (by Dr...
Dr Livingstone, back in the UK, 1864Scottish National Portrait Gallery David Livingstone (1813–73) was born into a...
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Walter Sickert's Victorian art - vice, nudity, sex, violence, death.
Jack the Ripper's Bedroom by Walter Sickert, 1906, TateWalter Sickert (1860-1942) was born in Munich and moved to London when young. In 1888, when he was an actor and artist, 5 women were murdered in...
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José Ferrer, Oscars & Senator Joseph McCarthy
Jose Ferrer as Toulouse-lautrec, in knee shoesby Bettmann, 1952Photos.comJoseph McCarthy (1908–57) was a Republican Senator from Wisconsin from 1947. By 1950 everyone in...
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Man Ray: the most expensive art photo at auction ever?
Violon d’Ingres 1924starring Kiki de Montparnasse, Christie'sto be auctioned in New York in May 2022The eldest of 4 children, Emmanuel Radnitzky, was born in Philadelphia in 1890 to East European...
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Dr Marie Stopes: UK scientist who saved women from unwanted pregnancies.
Dr Marie Stopes, 1914Marie Stopes (1880-1958) was born in Scotland, daughter of a leading archaeologist and a literature scholar. In 1902, she graduated with a BSc at the Uni College London in only 2...
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Pierre Laval, proud French prime minister AND close ally of Nazi Germany.
The miltary and ideological issues raised in this post will remind us of Charles Bedaux and Philippe Petain. But Pierre Laval was his own man. Born in Auvergnac France, Laval (1883-1945) graduated in...
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King Edward VII's funeral and every king in Europe - 1910.
coronation of King Edward and Queen Alexandra, 1901WikiKing Edward VII (ruled 1901-10) died on 6 May 1910. After a private lying in state in Buckingham Palace’s Throne Room, the coffin was taken to...
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luxurious German Hindenburg, crashed in New Jersey 1937.
Hindenburg over New Yorkcomplete with swastikas, 1937The first airship was designed by German army officer Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin and made its initial flight from a floating...
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Thank you UK. Australia's bathing boxes are wonderful
Bathing boxes were erected close to each other with doors facing Brighton BeachBayside City CouncilIn the 18th and C19th, morality and public behaviour were strictly policed, especially going to the...
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One of Australia's best novelists, my cousin Judah Waten.
Judah Waten (1911-1985) was born in Odessa Russia/now Ukraine, oldest child of Solomon Waten and Nechama Press. The family first migrated to Palestine and then to Australia, arriving in 1914 in...
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Frans Hals' 17th century influence on modern artists
The renovated Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem staged a special exhibition in 2018-9: Frans Hals and the Moderns. Thank you to the Exhibition Catalogue and The French Life.In 1868 Frans Hals (1582-1666)...
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Tikkun Olam - IsraAID helps distressed people worldwide
IsraAID search-and-rescue crew in blue t-shirts, earthquake Nepal, 2015Give LivelyFirstly two terms to be explained. A] Tzedakah is Hebrew for social justice, in which the donor benefits from giving,...
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Dr John Snow, the brave hero solving cholera epidemics ............. Guest post
In the mid 1800s, Londoners didn’t have deep sewage toilets inside their homes. Citizens in the world’s biggest city used communal wells & pumps to get water needed for drinking, cooking and...
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Kent UK camp that saved 4,000 German Jewish Men: 1939.
During WW1 Richborough Camp was built on the River Stour, the starting point of a ferry service across the Channel for troops and munitions to France and Belgium. A railway was built from the main...
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Famous inventors and scientists whose surnames went into our language
Casanova, attributed to Francesco Narichi1760Many words have been incorporated into our normal vocabulary, to connote the qualities that their namesakes were noted for. In fact there are many names of...
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Protecting beautiful Australian penguins at Phillip Island
Fairy penguins, Phillip Islandphoto credit: rove.meBenjamin Preiss has told the most amazing story of Peter Dann, the penguin protector, who is finishing up at Phillip Island. Dr Peter Dann, Research...
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An excellent Slovak film - The Teacher (2016)
Czech director & writer Jan Hrebejk and Petr Jarchovsky created this very fine Slovak drama, and Zuzana Mauréry rightfully won Best Actress Award at the Karlovy Vary film festival. My husband &...
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Thank goodness for hardworking and successful migrants: Max Factor.
Faktorowicz in the shop door; sign saying Entrance to Barber.Next door was the wig shop, near MoscowIf I hear one more nasty comment telling immigrants to stay in their own countries and leave us...
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