But this tough galloper kept on winning Warren Nunn The wonderful achievements of the brilliant racehorse Winx was given an amusing twist recently when my former Courier-Mail colleague Rob Craddock wrote a lovely article that mentioned the achievements of the...
Warren Nunn Some really interesting data has emerged that shows there are ‘upside down’ canyons below the Antarctic ice. That should slow you down to picture what that looks like. Driven by currents created as the earth rotates, water from below is eating away at the...
Warren Nunn Religion? Science? Science or religion? Which one requires most faith? Back in March 1900, about 20 men gathered in the English county of Hertfordshire—probably at St Albans about 40 km (25 miles) from London—for a debate on the topic “Has science or...
Great progenitor – Aberdeen Press and Journal 11 November 1799: Died, at Newton-Stewart, on the 16th ult. Thomas McRoberts, aged about 100 years. His great-grandchildren by the first marriage are above 12 years of age, and he has left a daughter by the third...
Dreadful stupidity – Aberdeen Press and Journal 11 November 1799: A dreadful accident happened at Coalport, near the Iron Bridge, Shropshire, on the evening of the 30th ult. As a considerable number of the work people, men and women, belonging to Messrs Rofe and...
No impediment to love – Aberdeen Press and Journal 01 July 1799: A marriage was on Tuesday celebrated at Wells, which excited a considerable degree of curiosity and entertainment. The bride, Mary Evans, was born without arms, but enjoyed the use of her feet in...
Horror of horrors – Aberdeen Press and Journal 19 November 1798: Letters from Rathangan relate an outrage committed near that place, scarcely paralleled even in the atrocities of the present rebellion: The house of a respectable clergyman in that neighbourhood...
Bravery at sea – Aberdeen Press and Journal 11 November 1799: This is at present in the Middlesex Hospital a young and delicate female, who calls herself Miss T-lb-t, and who is said to be related to some families of distinction: her story is very singular. At...
Penny post man – Aberdeen Press and Journal 28 January 1799: On Saturday last died here, Mr Peter Williamson, well known for his various adventures through life. He was kidnapped when a boy at Aberdeen, and sent to America, for which he afterwards recovered...
Dogmatism is real. We can all have it. Back more than a century ago, when civil debate graced our newspapers, it was refreshing to read reasoned essays such as that that follows. Titled “The dogmatism of science” it appeared in the Spectator of 17 December...
Schoolboy snub Warren Nunn Over the Christmas holiday period in 1972, about 100 primary school boys from eight regions gathered in Rockhampton for an intra-state cricket carnival. As an 18-year-old journalist who attended every day of the carnival and reported on it...
An improbable adventure First published Saturday 20 Jan 1973 Warren Nunn A family of five will leave on today’s high tide from the Fitzroy River to travel to Thursday Island in North Queensland in an inflatable dinghy. Mr and Mrs John Horne will set out with...
Back after hectic 10-day journey First published Saturday, December 2, 1972 Warren Nunn Hans Tholstrup, the Danish-born adventurer, was in Rockhampton yesterday after a hectic 10-day motor-cycle journey across Australia. Tholstrup left Rockhampton on November 6 and...
Reporting then and now … Warren Nunn A railway accident at Tungamull more than a century ago and the matter-of-fact way in which it was reported highlight how both the media and society have dramatically changed. The historical image tells more of the story than...
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