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Fish and chips, wrapped in newspaper Eaten with mayonnaise, salt and pepper, lemonBritainThe development of the steam powered trawler brought fish from all over the North Atlantic and Iceland, then the steam railways ensured fast distribution of produce around Britain. The earliest purpose-built fishing vessels were made in Leith in 1875 when they converted a drifter to steam…
Enrico Caruso as The Duke in Rigoletto, 1904. WikiBorn in Naples, Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) was said to be one of many babies of a poverty-ridden machinist. Caruso’s father thought his son should adopt the same trade, so at 11 the boy was apprenticed to a mechanical engineer. But at his mother’s wish, he also attended…
John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, and CarolinetownandcountryNeil Diamond’s interest in music began at 16, when he got his first guitar. He studied at New York Uni, apparently intending to do medicine after.…
16.8.2022
Old Parliament House, CanberraThe need for a national capital city arose when the colonies united to form the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901. The new Australian capital city of Canberra would soon grow, but Parliament couldn’t relocate from Melbourne until the provisional building in Canberra was ready. Scottish John Smith Murdoch (1862–1945), first Commonwealth Government architect…
Felix Werder with music score, date?Arts Centre MelbourneFelix Bischofswerder (1922-2012) was born in Berlin. He received his first music lessons from his father, the Jewish cantor Boas Bischofswerder in a leading Berlin synagogue. Felix's German heritage also greatly impacted his music. His father had also been a composer in Schoenberg's musical circle, and from primary school…
15.7.2022
Jan Hendrik Scheltema (1861–1941) was the youngest child of Lieut-Col Nicolaas Scheltema and his wife Anna Maria, who had 4 surviving children. This patrician family lived in Haarlem and Rotterdam, then moved to Gouda when Jan was 15. Brother Petrus Herman became an architect, then editor of an architectural magazine, and overseer of the Hague’s…
5.7.2022
Leonard Warwick and his daughter on a hunting trip, c1982Guns in Australia were not illegal back then, but they were not a good look.In a progressive programme of the Whitlam Federal Government, the Australian Family Court started in Jan 1976. But despite the high idealism of the court's creators, they failed to realise one truth: that…
Fairy penguins, Phillip Islandphoto credit: rove.meBenjamin Preiss has told the most amazing story of Dr Peter Dann, Research Director at Phillip Island Nature Parks, is to retire after 40+ years in research and conservation. Penguin colony has expanded significantly in the time Dann has worked at Phillip Island. A property buy back in the 1980s helped consolidate the colony’s…
Many herders, especailly in the Sub-Arctic, are threatened by the increased number of wolves, eating entire reindeer herds. In Australia they go the opposite way now: they try to revive a species of wolf that went extinct in the early 20th century, the last one from Tasmania in 1936. It’s a genetics lab experiment that…
15.12.2017
Olen väitöskirjassani tutkinut, kuinka tiettyjen brittitoimijoiden ryhmät osallistuivat Australian mannerta koskevan tiedon tuottamiseen 1800-luvun keskivaiheilla. Tutkimukseni näkökulma on ajankohtainen ja nykyhetken kannalta kiinnostava, sillä kysymykset siitä, kuinka ymmärrykset globaalisti tunnustetuista ”tosiasioista” ovat syntyneet, ovat läsnä monien nykypäivän ilmiöiden kohdalla.