Post Index

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DISASTERS

• The Iceberg That Sank the Titanic
• Plane Crash on Mount Dandenong
• The Sinking of the SS Casino

FIRSTS and LASTS

• 10 Academy Award Firsts
• 10 Things Invented Earlier Than You Think
• The First Abstract Art
• The First Cannes Film Festival
• The First Cliffhanger Ending
• The First Exhibition at the NGV
• The First Feature Length Film
• The First House Music
• The First Metre
• The First Night Aussie Rules Game
• The First Vaccine
• The Last Thylacine

FORGOTTEN PLACES

• Ball’s Pyramid and the Lost Continent of Zeeland
• Before the Sydney Opera House
• The Chicxulub Crater
• The Meenakshi Temple
• New York’s Lost Buildings
• The Real ‘Back to the Future’ House
• The Real ‘Stand By Me’ Bridge
• The Secret Tunnels at St James Station
• Wendy’s Secret Garden

HOLIDAYS

• The May Day Holiday
• The Origins of Easter
• The Origin of the King’s Birthday Holiday

THE NATURAL WORLD

• A Crocodile Named Sweetheart
• Fox Stories
• The Lyrid Meteor Shower
• Mungo Man (and Lady)
• The Murchison Meteorite
• Pallas’s Cat
• Pando: The World’s Largest Organism
• The Wollemi Pine: A Living Dinosaur
• The Yellow Penguin of South Georgia Island

REMARKABLE CHARACTERS

• Annette Kellerman: The Australian Mermaid
• Errol Flynn: From Tasmania to Hollywood
• The Founder of the Archibald Prize
• Francoise Gilot
• The Man on the $2 Coin
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe
• Trevor ‘Turbo’ Brown
• William Edmonson: God Called His Name

SPORTS

• 8 Discontinued Olympic Sports
• The First Boxing Day Test
• Synthetic Test Cricket: Calling the Ashes by Telegraph

UNSOLVED MYSTERIES

• 8 Everyday Things That Can’t Be Explained
• Aliens in the Dandenongs
• Aliens on the Nullarbor
• The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
• Maree Man
• The Virgin Mary at Coogee Beach
• Who Was the ‘Somerton Man’
• The Wow Signal

WEIRD and WILD

• 8 Amazing Facts About Argentina
• 8 Major Cities That Changed Their Name
• 9 Things You Didn’t Know About the English Language
• Almost World War III
• The Cats of Sydney Harbour Bridge
• The Cat Who Fell from the Ninth Floor
• The Centennial Light: The Lightbulb Burning for 100 Years
• Desert Bus: The Worst Video Game Ever Created
• The History of MDMA
• Jetpack Man (and the History of Jetpacks)
• Kitten Overboard
• The Real Annabelle Doll
• The Rise and Fall of Flares
• The Secret History of Ambien
• Strange Origins of Common Phrases