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Read more about the article Tales of the uncanny, from my own life
Redback spider, photo by Toby Hudson, via Wikimedia commons

Tales of the uncanny, from my own life

Every day, when I drove my old Hillman Minx home from school or wherever I'd been, I used to love hitting a right-hand corner not far from home. The road wasn't kerbed, and there was plenty of loose gravel on the outside of the corner, so if I drove into the corner just right I could let the tail of the car slide sideways before I headed up the straight to home. They were quieter days in our suburb then. I'd be horrified if my kids drove like I used to, but it honestly didn't seem…

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Read more about the article Three ship pile-up in Newcastle Harbour
The entangled ships Ditton, Port Crawford and Peeblesshire in Newcastle Harbour, April 1902.

Three ship pile-up in Newcastle Harbour

It was just on dark, April 4, 1902; the weather was taking a turn for the worse, and among the fleet of ships that appeared off Newcastle, NSW, hoping to enter harbour, was one of the world's biggest three-masters, the 311-foot-long (95m) Ditton. The harbour, apparently, was already reasonably crowded, and there were two fully laden ships - The Port Crawford and the Peeblesshire - tied up at the so-called "farewell buoys" in the channel, ready to leave next day. It was a situation fraught with danger and, unfortunately, the danger was not avoided. The Ditton…

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Read more about the article Slow-motion assassination of Julian Assange
Julian Assange. Photo courtesy of Cancilleria del Ecuador via Wikimedia Commons. https://www.flickr.com/photos/dgcomsoc/14953880621/

Slow-motion assassination of Julian Assange

The slow-motion state-sponsored assassination of Julian Assange, the award-winning Australian journalist who helped expose, through his outlet Wikileaks, some of the ugly truth about the powers that run the western world, appears to be gathering pace. Ever since he was charged by Sweden on conveniently timed rape charges (just as conveniently dropped once he was securely trapped in the UK), Assange has been more or less a dead man standing. With the entire security establishment of the United States baying for his blood, no country’s government has been willing to risk defending him. Not Sweden, where…

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