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"From Gods to Gigabytes - A Brief History of Weather Forecasting" - is now available in book form. For more details, and to order,...

In the afternoon of 2 nd February 1918, severe thunderstorm activity associated with a low -pressure trough spawned a tornadic ...

Late in 1916 the Germans had planned to engage in unrestricted submarine warfare in an effort to cut most sea borne supplies to Great Brita...

The Battle of Mons was the baptism of fire of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War. The BEF had arrived in France b...

During 1928 and 1929, in a period just 9 months apart, two terrible shark attacks occurred at Bondi Beach, sending shock waves through the S...

Traffic jams are one of the major social blights in the big cities of the developed - and developing - world. The obvious issues are the r...

The Red Cross in Australia began on 13 th August 1914 – just 9 days after the start of the First World War. It was begun as a branch of th...