Month: February 2015
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Three Days with Tyson
This story is about James Tyson, my 2nd great-grand uncle. It’s from The Queenslander newspaper dated 1894. It’s written by an anonymous drover who claimed to have spent three days travelling with James Tyson on the Steamship Arawatta in about 1889 when Tyson was 70. I’m guessing from the context they were going from Brisbane to Rockhampton in Queensland.…
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Thomas Aquinas: Philosopher and a Holy Saint
For about a year I’ve been reading an online experiment in journalism called The Philosophers’ Mail. I always found it a sanctuary from traditional news outlets; it looked at the news of the day from a different, thoughtful perspective. Sadly the experiment has ended, but it’s been replaced by an online evolving book: The Book of Life. A…
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The new Ghost Busters and sexual equality
The original Ghost Busters (1984) was a great success, so of course Hollywood did what it does best: it capitalised on the success by releasing a sequel, Ghostbusters II, in 1989. Time passed. Lots of it. In fact 25 years or so before Hollywood had another great idea. What about Ghostbusters 3? But this time they’ll make it…