Dick's Blog

During the nineteenth century, before the time of organised weather forecast and warning services, shipwreck was an all too frequent occurre...

The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defence and is the largest office building in the world in terms of floo...

The volcanic eruption at the Cordon Caulle complex in Chile during June 2011 ejected volcanic ash some 15,000 metres up into the atmosphere,...

One of the iconic songs of the 1960’s “Do You Wanna Dance?” was in fact written in 1958 by the African American songwriter Bobby Freeman and...

There have been more than 250 recorded shark attacks along the NSW coast since European settlement in 1788, with nearly 30% of these...

Following the outbreak of war in June 1914, the British and German armies dug in across France and Belgium and faced each other in a long s...

The First World War began in June 1914, and in a patriotic fervour, British troops from all parts of the world flocked to the colours – Engl...