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As the Wet Season approached in the Northern Territory late in 1929, Stavros Papavassiliou had fallen in love…

History · Journalism

In the sugar cane fields of tropical north Queensland in the early 1930s, men were dropping dead at…

History · People

The birth of Bendigo, and a nominee for Aussie iconography… Christian Asquith began life in one of the…

History · People

A top hat, five tame rabbits and a plank. In another time and place, they’d be a magician’s…

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Grace Vale (1860-1933) was a pioneer Australian female doctor and suffragist who devoted much of her career to…

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In the 1890s, when women cyclists in Melbourne were uncommon, and women doctors very rare, for several years…

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Born Jeanie Lucinda Field (1833-1920), Lady Lucinda Musgrave was a prominent American-born promoter of women’s charitable projects in…

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Robert (Bob) ‘Doc’ Cunningham (1873-1951), was an American illusionist, stunt performer, and showman whose stage names included Zante,…

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Franklin ‘Frank’ Eugene Eliason (1878-1921?), was an American illusionist, magician and shadographer, who used stage names including Dante,…

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Virginia ‘Verge’ Edmunda Hammer (1873–1946), was an American variety performer, whose stage names included Electra the Magic Wonder,…