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8 years ago+17 17 0Dogs that saved Macquarie Island from rodents honoured on postage stamps
The dogs that rid Macquarie Island of rats are honoured in a set of Australia Post stamps.
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8 years ago+26 26 0 x 1Chiara Vigo: The last woman who makes sea silk
Silk is usually made from the cocoons spun by silkworms - but there is another, much rarer, cloth known as sea silk or byssus, which comes from a clam. Chiara Vigo is thought to be the only person left who can harvest it, spin it and make it shine li ...
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8 years ago+2 2 0Extremely Rare Cars: 8 Extremely Rare Cars You Won't Believe Exist
Depending on the city you live in, it is easy to grow accustomed to seeing cars as common as Honda Accords and as high-end as the Bentley Mulsanne or Ferrari 458 Spider, but there are a handful of vehicles that are so limited that you’d never know th ...
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8 years ago+12 12 0Two Victorian new media artists awarded National Portrait Gallery's digital portrait prize
They use pixels instead of paint and screens instead of canvas, but a new wave of portrait artists are making their mark on the National Portrait Gallery's walls in Canberra.
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8 years ago+25 25 0Japanese railway station replaces much-loved station master cat
A Japanese railway station famous for its stationmaster cat has appointed another feline as its replacement.
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8 years ago+12 12 0'Great Escape' airman Paul Royle dies in Perth hospital, aged 101
One of two remaining survivors of World War II's most famous prison break, known as The Great Escape has died in a Perth hospital.
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8 years ago+14 14 0Eureka Prizes: From corals to crocodiles, photographers zoom in on nature
From the intricate insides of micro-crustaceans, to a saltwater croc gliding through the water, the world of Australian science has been captured on camera for the annual Eureka Prizes.
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8 years ago+13 13 0 x 1Top 10 Mercedes-Benz Cars of All Time
Mercedes-Benz is one of the oldest automobile manufacturers in the world. In fact, many credit Karl Benz with creating the world’s first proper automobile in 1886. Suffice to say, if a company can trace its roots back 129 years, you can bet that it ...
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8 years ago+2 2 0Fearless koala chases South Australian woman on quad bike
A South Australian woman has filmed the moment she was chased by a seemingly fearless koala while she was riding a quad bike. Ebony Churchill caught the strange experience on camera posted it to her Facebook page. "Far out, it's coming!&q ...
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8 years ago+32 32 0 x 2The Art of the Book Cover- Turn of the 19th Century [OC]
My father collected books for much of his life. Searching through old book shops, second hand stores, garage sales, he was always happiest when he had "found one!". He eventually built up a collection of approximately 5,000 books. The colou ...
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8 years ago+1 1 0Brett Whiteley's The American Dream on display in Perth after painstaking three-month restoration
Brett Whiteley's vast 1968 painting The American Dream is about to go on show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), following a painstaking three-month restoration last year. The American Dream consists of 18 adjoining panels, 2.44 me ...
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8 years ago+17 17 0 x 1Photographers net thousands in compensation after spike in copyright infringement cases
The explosion of the internet has made it a simple task for individuals and companies to find and download photos online and upload them to their own sites, without paying. At the same time, reverse image search engines such as Google or Tin Eye mak ...
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8 years ago+13 13 0Stunning Feather Art.
Chris Maynard is a Washington based artist who specialises in working with feathers. His work is detailed, exacting and beautiful. Enjoy :)
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8 years ago+2 2 0Targa West Car Rally
The Targa West car rally is an annual event held in Western Australia, and here are a couple of the contestants going past my place
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8 years ago+42 43 1What makes you decide to follow someone on Snapzu?
I am curious as to what determines people's choices to follow a Snapzu user. A few reasons for me are : Same interests- so I can see content that is in line with my interests Very different interests/opinions-so I can expand my interests, discover content that I may not have seen otherwise, avoid shutting myself into an echo chamber. Humour
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8 years ago+11 11 050 Mesmerising Designs That Make The Most Of Negative Space
Less is more? Arguably, you could both agree and disagree, depending on what the situation is pertaining to. If you’re talking about cheese on your pizza versus interest on your credit card, the answer is obvious (unless you’re lactose intolerant, w ...
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8 years ago+2 2 0CIAF aims to make the Indigenous art market fair and ethicalRachel Robinson
The sixth annual Cairns Indigenous Art Fair opens this week. Rachel Robinson talks to curator Hetti Perkins and artist Gordon Hookey about the balancing act of the commercial, ethical and political.
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8 years ago+5 5 0Neil deGrasse Tyson: 10 key moments from Q&A
American cosmologist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is in Australia for a speaking tour, joined ABC's Q&A panel on Monday. The charismatic scientist was asked a range of questions about everything from predictions for the future to how the media ...
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8 years ago+19 19 0What is the first song you can remember playing on the radio?
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8 years ago+30 30 0 x 1Pollen turns bumblebees into jumbo jets
Flying bumblebees trade off fighter-jet-like manoeuvrability for jumbo-jet-like stability when they shift their load from nectar to pollen, researchers have found. The findings, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scien ...