Deus Ex Machina
Another local award-winning author and creator of the Hellbound Trilogy, Tim Hawken and I recently caught up over a cup of tea. We got onto…
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Bang Shoot
So go the words of the Beatles song, which is close to my favourite and not because I love guns (which I do) but because…
Samuel Colt
Born in Hartford, Connecticut on 19 July 1814, Samuel Colt was only 11 years old when he became indentured to a farm in Glastonbury, Connecticut….
Rolly Polly Sales
Salesman Mike Dreschler has his motorised roller skates refuelled at a petrol station near Hartford, Connecticut. He has a single horsepower air-cooled engine strapped to…
Napoleon’s Chef
He was the first ‘celebrity chef.’ Emperors and Kings, the elite of Europe in the age of romantacism paid homage to Carême’s amazing culinary creations…
Irving Penn
Irving Penn began his career with Vogue in 1943, and over fifty years 150 of his photographs appeared on the cover of Vogue. Lisa Fonssagrives,…
Fab Faberge
Alexei, the long-awaited heir to the Romanov dynasty was born to Emperor Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra Fedorovna in 1904. Unfortunately in 1911 the…
Don’t Tell Mum
“Don’t tell my mother I work on the rigs she thinks I am a piano player in a whorehouse.” At my cafe, often the earliest…
The Dook
The ways in which Aboriginal people have been portrayed by non-Aboriginal people reflect Euro-centric values and have been largely negative. Strong representations of Aboriginal people…
The Swan News
From ‘The Aboriginal People of Alice Springs’ by Dan White This and many more amazing pictures of Indigenous people of Central Australia can be viewed…