Police sources have described the conditions that former Australian cricketer Michael Slater experienced in a Sunshine Coast jail cell awaiting his court appearance.
A good memoir should be more than an autobiography and less than a confessional but contain elements of both. As a reader, I am less interested in being overwhelmed with family trauma and pathos except when it informs the greater tale being told. Quite often, it is the memoirs that feature an excess of pathos More
Glen Powell won the crowd over in New York City last night with a story about one of the film’s characters they nicknamed “Meth-hew McConaughey.”
Funny StoryDaphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s...
To Gaze Upon Wicked GodsDaughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen.Blessed by Death, born with the ability to pull the life right out of mortal bodies, Ruying shouldn’t have to fear these foreign invaders, but she does. Especially because she wants to keep herself and her family safe.When Ruying’s Gift is discovered by an enemy...
It is the show’s second visit to the theatre anf for this tour Wakefield-born Laura Pick plays Elphaba. Sarah O’Connor steps into the role of Glinda, Carl Man is Fiyero, Donna Berlin is Madame Morrible, Simeon Truby is the Wizard and Doctor Dillamond and Leeds born Jed Berry plays Boq. The West End and Broadway musical, that tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz, continues an open-ended run at London’s Apollo Victoria Theatre where it is now flying into its landmark 18th year. Wicked...
The 184-tonnes section - the second of three - has been lifted into place for the lead-cooled fast neutron reactor under construction at the Siberian Chemical Combine site in Russia.
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Stories are one of the most common threads that bind all of humanity together. Regardless of who you are, there are stories that define your childhood and possibly your adulthood.
This week, for the first time in its 75-plus year history, a new
Jacob Chansley, also known as the ‘QAnon Shaman’, was a prominent figure during the January 6 insurrection (Picture: Win McNamee/Getty)The possibility of a second US civil war is becoming ‘increasingly plausible’ according to a new study – with additional insurrections even more likely.There are also ‘striking similarities’ between the 1850s – the decade before the first civil war – and today, according to the team from California State University, San Bernardino.The American Civil War broke out...
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