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Alexandria Egypt - dream city for residents & tourists.
Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). It is Egypt’s second city and boasts a thriving port on its 32 ks coastline along the Mediterranean Sea. Even with the high rise...
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Mary Whitehouse's private blasphemy prosecution, UK 1976
Cliff Richards lending support to Mary Whitehouse establishing the National Viewers' Association and the 'Clean-up TV campaign' 1964National Portrait Gallery.Penguin Books faced obscenity charges for...
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Pentridge Prison Melbourne - from inhumane cells to glam hotel
In Dec 1850 prisoners marched with armed warders from Melbourne Gaol ..to The Stockade Coburg which became the new prison. Formally established in 1851 and largely built by 1864, Pentridge Prison...
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Dr William McBride, a heroic specialist
William McBride (1927–2018) grew up near Sydney and did Medicine at Sydney University. Graduating in 1949, he did his residencies and went on to the University of London, sitting for exams at the...
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ethnic exile & genocide of European Roma
Alexander Watson wrote that in 1418, Zurich’s wealthy burghers were startled by the sudden appearance of foreigners camping outside the city's walls. The new arrivals were, according to a later...
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Dubrovnik, pearl of the Adriatic Sea
city walls, forts and bridgeLonely PlanetDubrovnik Croatia (pop 41,000) is the Pearl of the Adriatic and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1979. The city was founded c614 as Rausa by Roman refugees...
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Perfect Strangers, a brilliant Israeli film
Perfect Strangers was originally an Italian film made in 2016, then remade in Russian, French, Mexican and Arabic (2018) etc. With 18 successful remakes sofar, Perfect Strangers clearly used an easily...
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Albert Einstein on the road (1917-55): Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, UK, USA
Albert and his first wife MilevaGerman-born Albert Einstein (1879-1955) became the world’s most famous physicist. I briefly examined his early life and first wife Mileva Marić(1875–1948) whom he...
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Great family holiday, Gundagai New South Wales
Gundagai court house1859Gundagai, a small rural town in NSW, was surprising well known around Australia. The town is located at a crossing place of the Murrumbidgee River. There were several places at...
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Eugenics and migration in USA, 1882-1924
The High Tide of Immigration - A National Menace by Louis Dalrymple in Judge magazine, Aug 1903 The term eugenics came from English scientist Sir Francis Galton. In Hereditary Genius (1869), Galton...
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Crystal Palace: huge success, tragic end.
Crystal Palace was a glass and cast iron structure in Hyde Park, for the Great Exhibition of 1851.Designed by Sir Joseph PaxtonArchDaily The origins of Crystal Palace in Hyde Park lay in the national...
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Rural Cowra WW2: Jewish deportees, Italian & Japanese prisoners
Following Nazi Germany’s enactment of the infamous Nuremberg Laws in 1936, expatriate Jewish organisations sought to help as many potential victims out of Germany and Eastern Europe as possible. The...
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Berthe Morisot, fine French Impressionist
Berthe Morisot,WikiBerthe Morisot (1841–95) was born into a very cultivated, bourgeois Bourges family, dad a government minister and mum the great-niece of the famous Rococo artist Jean-Honoré...
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Australia's gorgeous public library: Adelaide
South Australia differed from other Australian colonies by planning a library for public use, before settlement. Just after the South Australia Act was passed by the British Parliament in Aug 1834, a...
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Frank Lloyd Wright III - the father of architectural modernism in the USA?
Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studioOak Park Chicago, 1889From 1886, 20-year old Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) trained at the Chicago offices of the famous firm of Adler & Sullivan, Louis Sullivan...
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J Edgar Hoover's Gospel: illegal, oppressive
J Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) was born in Washington DC in a religious family. Devout since boyhood, he loved being a Sunday School teacher and prided himself on his Scriptural knowledge. Before his...
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Museo di Capodimonte Naples art in the Louvre Paris
Asserting the importance of collaboration among European museums, Musée du Louvre has formed a fine partnership with Museo di Capodimonte for 2023-4. The royal palace, which once served as a hunting...
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Wealthy visitors "toured" Bedlam asylum
Note the well dressed tourists in BedlamThe Rake’s Progress: Scene 8, by William Hogarth, 1735 Sir John Soane’s Museum. Originally Bethlehem was founded in 1247 as the Priory of St Mary in Bishopsgate...
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Frank Lloyd Wright III: father of architectural modernism in USA?
Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studioOak Park Chicago, 1889From 1886, 20-year old Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) trained at the Chicago offices of the famous firm of Adler & Sullivan, Louis Sullivan...
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Joan of Arc, loved by extreme rightists & feminists
The 100 Years' War (1337-1453) was horrendous. Endless battles continued between English Plantagenets and French Valois, for control of French soil. Late in the 100 Years War, English forces occupied...
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