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First step to Panguna Mine Legacy Impact Assessment

A Kiaps Chronicle BILL BROWN MBE INTRODUCTION Bill (William Thomas) Brown was born on 6 December 1929 and educated at Sydney Technical High School. He was selected to attend the Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA) before being transferred to...

For the first time in history the Via Dolorosa is accessible: "This is excellent."

Type keyword(s) to search Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Whats Inside the Recently Uncovered Private Letters of Queen Victoria? The unearthed correspondence of Empress Augusta Victoria—including notes from her godmother—might shed light on previously private royal history. By Wendy Kaur Hulton DeutschGetty Images In 2018, The Neues Palais—the last palace built by Frederick the Great in...

American flamethrower tanks provided a horrific edge during island fighting in the Pacific. U.S. portable flamethrowers were first used in combat during the Guadalcanal campaign in January 1943. It quickly became apparent that the exposed flamethrower operator was vulnerable to Japanese small arms fire. So the idea arose to mount the portable flamethrowers in a tank as a means to reach Japanese bunkers without excessive casualties. After some experimentation in New Caledonia in the autumn of 19...