Who were we fighting at Gallipoli?
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes In the annual discussion of the Gallipoli campaign Australians...
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In 1989, a policy wonk in the US State Department wrote a paper for the right-leaning international relations magazine The National Interest entitled âThe End of History?â. His name was Francis Fukuyama, and the paper stirred such interest â and caused such controversy â that he was soon contracted to expand his 18-page article into a book. He did so in 1992:Â The End of History and the Last Man. The rest, they say, is (the end of) history.
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This government-funded paramilitary force operated from 1849 (prior to Queenslandâs separation from New South Wales) until 1904. It grew to have an expansive reach throughout the state, with camps established in strategic locations along the ever-expanding frontier, first in the southeast and then west and north. While staffed with non-Indigenous senior officers, the bulk of the force was made up of Aboriginal men and, sometimes, boys.
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The ancient world of the Mediterranean has long permeated American society, in everything from museum collections to home furnishings. The design of the nationâs public monuments, buildings and universities, as well as its legal system and form of government, show the enduring influence of Mediterranean antiquity on American culture.
Until the late 19th century, Americans encountered the ancient world almost exclusively through reproductions â in books, artwork and even popular plays. Very few could afford to travel abroad to encounter Mediterranean artifacts firsthand.
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ACROSS THE REEF: THE MARINE ASSAULT OF TARAWA – AUDIOBOOK By Joseph H. Alexander (1938...
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If youâve been paying attention to how Russian President Vladimir Putin talks about the war in Ukraine, you may have noticed a pattern. Putin often uses words to mean exactly the opposite of what they normally do.
He labels acts of war âpeacekeeping duties.â
He claims to be engaging in âdenazificationâ of Ukraine while seeking to overthrow or even kill Ukraineâs Jewish president, who is the grandson of a Holocaust survivor.
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With howling westerly winds and in freezing rain, the unforgiving waves push ships closer to the treacherous rocks of the merciless Cornish coastline. The crew has travelled miles with precious cargo, desperately trying to right their course with no modern navigation. In an attempt to save the vessel and themselves, they begin to throw goods overboard.
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Reading time: 7 minutes A tank on its way to port for the Normandy landings in 1944. PA...
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The idea of hanging up decorations in the middle of winter is older than Christmas itself. Decorations are mentioned in ancient descriptions of the Roman feast of Saturnalia, which is thought to have originated in the 5th century BC.
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The export of German and US tanks to Ukraine is not without risk, both real and symbolic. In purely military terms, well-trained, well-led and motivated Ukrainian tank crews operating the Leopard 2 or M1 Abrams will be better protected, have better firepower and be more manoeuvrable than their Russian counterparts. Provided the Ukrainians can cope with the fact that they will need different ammunition, spare parts and possibly fuel they can make a difference, significantly enhancing Ukraineâs capability to defend its territory.
Reading time: 9 minutes Eminent Australian anthropologist Peter Sutton and respected field...
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In December 1792, detachments of the 2nd Dragoon Guards across the Southwest of England staged spectacles of hate. A dummy was paraded through the towns on an âassâ led by a hangman, the crowd of soldiers and residents encouraged to subject it to âevery possible mark of indignityâ. At the customary place of execution, it was burned amidst repeated exclamations of ââGod Save the Kingâ, and constant cheering and huzzahringâ. The dummy was an effigy, of the radical writer Thomas Paine.