April 30th, 2021
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Melbourne, April 30: Australia’s snowsport community gathered at the Snow Australia Awards in Melbourne last night to celebrate the remarkable performances produced by Australian athletes and coaches over the last 12 months.
The outstanding success achieved by Australian athletes on the World Cup circuit and at the World Championships meant it was extremely difficult to single out an individual performance. World Championship gold medalist and back-to-back FIS Aerials Crystal Globe winner Laura Peel won the coveted Athlete of the Year awards (Olympic disciplines) alongside Snowboard Cross Team event World Champions Belle Brockhoff and Jarryd Hughes. The three edged other finalists Matt Graham, Tess Coady and Scotty James for the award.
The story of Halford s flute boy , and what it tells us about the European trade in human remains
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AprApril 2021 at 7:00pm
This skeleton came to Melbourne with the University of Melbourne s first professor of medicine . and an incredible backstory.
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At the height of the French Revolution in the late 1700s, a boy sat on the steps of the Notre-Dame cathedral playing a lilting tune on his wooden recorder.
Parisians hurried by, occasionally casting a glance towards the child, perhaps throwing a few coins his way.
But what may have caused them to stop mid-stride was the sight of his legs or, rather, leg. The boy s two thighs were fused at his knee and his leg ended in a single foot.
This is no ordinary set of bones.
Seated on a pedestal, and posing with a recorder, legend has it this is the skeleton of a boy with a rare condition and who led an extraordinary life in French Revolution Paris.
But is Halford s flute boy for real?
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The shocking depths of disgraced fake school principal Neil Lennie s fraudulence has been laid bare - with revelations he also masqueraded as a doctor and even tried to launch his own exclusive private school.
The now 72-year old narrowly avoided being jailed in March for a scam which started in 1976 - 44 years ago - when he scored his first job in a school by lying that he had a degree in teaching.
Lennie was in fact a serial university drop-out who had only finished Year 12.
He was sentenced in the County Court of Victoria to a suspended jail term and community corrections order after pleading guilty to four counts of obtaining a financial advantage by deception over the life-long scam.