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Read more about the article Climb to a better world on a rope of ideas

Climb to a better world on a rope of ideas

Imagine. Imagine a Utopia. Imagine the best world that humans can make here on Earth. Don’t be afraid of imagining a beautiful society. Don’t be inhibited by habit. Try. Consider: everything that humans have ever created had to be imagined before it could be made. Imagination is a mighty force: one of the mightiest in the world and perhaps in the Universe. In a way, we exist in a contest of visions for the future. For a long time, it seems to me, some of the most dominant and pervasive visions for our future have been…

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Read more about the article Accidents, prangs and crashes: Part 2
Burnt-out tram after a fatal crash at Jesmond on October 11, 1943

Accidents, prangs and crashes: Part 2

. As a career fireman, transport collector Ken Magor naturally accumulated many photographs of accidents and disasters. Here are some more tales of vehicular tragedy and misadventure from our Ken Magor archive. . Fatal wartime tram-truck smash at Jesmond The burnt-out tramThe late Fred Quayle . Thanks to Jack Nyman for this account. . At 11.30 am on 11th October,1943, tram driver Fred Quayle, 41, of Wallsend, was taking a two-car tram set bound from Newcastle to Plattsburg and Wallsend. He left Howe Street, Lambton, and began the 1 in 30 ascent over the Lambton range.…

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Read more about the article Bridging the Hawkesbury River: Part 3

Bridging the Hawkesbury River: Part 3

In the early days of European settlement in the colony of New South Wales, the only way to travel from Sydney to the "Coal River" - later to be Newcastle - was by sea. And that was fine by the colonial government, since the northern settlement was chiefly valued as a remote prison camp for the worst of the colony's convicts. Escaping overland from the Coal River was at first dangerous and often fatal. Newcastle was a punishment camp for the worst prisoners Over the years some convicts did manage to find their way back to…

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