Dick's Blog

In any top-notch athletics meeting, one of the blue riband events has always been the high jump and the world record for this event has bee...

The Australian Football League Grand Final: Weather has played a big part in some of the great finals matches of the past. In the amazin...

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...