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On 2 July 1937, Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, took off from Lae, Papua New Guinea for Howland Island, some 2,556 statute miles away in the Pacific Ocean.  They were on the last legs of their attempt to make a world flight. T...

In 1956, Yukio Mihsima had achieved his lifelong ambition to become a writer. He had to overcome various obstacles to do so, not the least of which was his father’s strenuous objections. Two years later, he would marry and eventually have t...

In 1971, Francis Ford Coppola, the director, often clashed with Gordon Willis, the director of photography, during the shooting of the movie,“The Godfather”. During one such clash, the veteran actor, Marlon Brando, was present and he...

On 9 April 1992, the leader of the Conservative Party, John Major became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom when his party defeated the Labour Party at the general elections by a wide margin of some 14 million votes. But by 1 May 1997, the tide...

The US presidential election is scheduled to be held in November 2012. The world will be watching with bated breath. Will President Obama survive another term? Will he be given another chance to lead the US economy out of its recession? But th...

The American debt ceiling has just got worse. After President Obama and John Boehner, the Speaker of the House, revealed their debt ceiling deal on 2 August 2011 to resuscitate the American economy, the rating agency Standard & Poor resp...

No. 1 Safdarjung Road, New Delhi, was the official residence of the Prime Minister of India. At about 9-08 am, on 31-10-1984, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, strolled out of her residence to grant an interview with the British actor/director Peter ...

What kind of mother was Enid Blyton? When the Chinese New Year celebrations commence on 3 February this year, Chinese families worldwide will be having their annual family reunions. Perhaps this would be an appropriate time for us to look at r...

How about writing yourself a multimillion check?   In 1983, a depressed Canadian comic actor was struggling to make ends meet. He had been trying hard to make a name for himself for the past six years to no avail. He was so unhappy wit...

“The winter of our discontent” In the winter of 1993, a recently divorced mother sat at  Nicolson’s Café in Edinburgh, Scotland, feverishly writing a book while her one year old baby daughter slept quietly in a pr...