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"B" is for Ball, William Watts [1868-1952]. Newspaper Editor.

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Around the year 2000, journalists and academics were busy forecasting what the future of the internet might hold for us.

Strong personalities and dairy industry politics lead to a brouhaha in 1910, writes Russell Poole.

On an early May Monday morning in 1768, George Washington—36 years old, war veteran, elected official—set out to spend the day pursuing one of his favored hobbies, angling in the Potomac River that ran along the lands and farms of Mount Vernon. He may have enjoyed the quiet of a pleasant spring day, but he went home empty-handed. Later he wrote in his diary: “Fishing for Sturgeon from Breakfast to Dinner but catchd none.”

From wind strong enough to toss two train carriages, to seven-storey waves ripping buoys out of the Southern Ocean, New Zealand's weather is wildly changeable. And it's only going to get wilder.

Akiko Ota spent much of her later life building a better relationship between Japan and New Zealand

Sixty years ago, a Post article highlighted the concerns over radio frequency interference. Today, with the proliferation of electromagnetic radiation sources — including its weaponization — fears persist.

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Here's a look at some of the stories that were making the headlines back in 1999: