Cinemas Greatest Scenes: When Rocky runs up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
By the late 1990s with the exception of Cop Land (1997) and later Creed (2015), Sylvester Stallone was resigned to crankingContinue Reading
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This is Miroslav Sasek
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Has The Circus Finally Left Town?
No one expected the circus to stay in town for so long! Yesterday, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced thatContinue Reading
The Australian Perspective: Vietnam and The Battle of Long Tan.
The Vietnam War remains to this day, one of the most exhausting and controversial wars Australians have fought in. InContinue Reading
The Australian Perspective: The Fall of Singapore.
When a substantial British fleet failed to materialize in the Far East in late 1941, it was inevitable that SingaporeContinue Reading
The Dance of Death (a brief history of…)
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The Australian perspective: Afghanistan and the War on Terror.
It sometimes seems that ‘enemies’, unlike in traditional warfare fought by two distinct sides not long ago, have changed intoContinue Reading
The Crooked Forest of Gryfino.
The world is an amazing place where sometimes we can find truly beautiful and very strange things. In a smallContinue Reading
A Living, Breathing Lone Pine Monument in Australia.
The following article is a complimentary piece to this bloggers previous post entitled Gallipoli and Battle of Lone Pine (AustraliansContinue Reading
The Australian perspective: Gallipoli and the Battle of Lone Pine.
On the 28th of June 1914, the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne saw the BalkansContinue Reading
Bone Sewing Needles (a brief history of…)
The humble sewing needle needs no introduction. Everyone has likely seen one used or has used one to sew thatContinue Reading
Rearview Mirror 