Husband and wife team Will and Ariel Durant spent forty years writing their celebrated eleven-volume history The Story of Civilization. In the process they made […] Read More
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When a company with an iconic brand like Rolls Royce claims to have the ‘answer’ to the clean energy future, you are inclined to give […] Read More
The holy grail of 100% renewable electricity for Australia finally appears to be within reach after the premier of the Australian state of Queensland recently […] Read More
Western urban dwellers like me take for granted that we can buy whatever food takes our fancy by just popping down to our local shopping […] Read More
The final iconic scene in the 1960s film Planet of the Apes is one of the most memorable in cinema history. Astronaut Charlton Heston discovers […] Read More
Rome was sacked by Gaul invaders in 390 BC, and in the 210s BC the Carthaginian general Hannibal wreaked havoc on the Italian Peninsula. Yet […] Read More
How Australians voted at their federal election on 21st May 2022, made headlines across the country and internationally. On election night as the votes were […] Read More
Watching your novel transform from words on a page to a three dimensional stage performance is akin to magic. It’s like watching your child grow […] Read More
What did the Russian, Ottoman and Chinese empires share in common in the 15th and 20th Centuries? In the 15th century all three shunned the […] Read More
In 1621, the Dutch East Indies Company virtually exterminated the native people of the Bandu Islands in order to seize a monopoly on the lucrative […] Read More