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History · People

Oscar Eliason (1869–1899), known by the stage name Dante the Great, was an American illusionist and magician who…

History · Objects

This is a heavy, Shorter Oxford English dictionary, comprising 2515 pages, published in 1937. The Oxford is regarded…

History · Photos

The Jaffna fort in northern Sri Lanka was originally built by the Portuguese in 1618. Forces under the…

History · Places

This a sequence of rare audio recordings of eyewitness accounts and news reports from the 1967 Black Tuesday…

History · People

Children as young as four or five were once used as jockeys at the popular Al Shahaniya track,…

History · Journalism

On the humid last day of February in 1951, a young Cypriot carpenter walked out of the Supreme…

History · Objects

This is an axe head made from part of a giant claim shell. It was found on Nendo…

History · People

A rare audio recording from 1967 of 11-year-old Tasmanian boy Bob Elliston, talking about his family’s successful efforts…

Art · History

This drawing depicts the separation of two young lovers, as one leaves to fight in the French Revolutionary…

History · Journalism

Former Chinese seaman Boon Juat Lee served in both the Australian and US armies in WW2, but he…