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JAPANS PRINCESS MAKO turns her back on Royal Status

  Princess Mako of Japan turns her back on her royal status, to marry a commoner. It can be a high price to pay when you fall in love, just ask Princess Mako of Japan. Under Japan’s controversial law, if a female royal family member chooses...

MZURI – MELBOURNES AND THE WORLDS FIRST IVF GORILLA

  Mzuri - Melbourne’s first ever IVF Gorilla to be born in captivity has passed away, just shy of his 33rd birthday.   Mzuri was born on 3rd June, 1984, a son to both Rigo and Yuska. His name meaning “beautiful” was chosen out of tens of thousands, after...

ADRIANA XENIDES

A Australian television show hostess Adriana Xenides was born 9 January 1956, and is best known for her role as ‘television show hostess’ alongside game show hosts, Ernie Sigley, Tony Barber, John Burgess and Rob Elliott on the successful show ‘Wheel of Fortune”.   Born to a Greek...

SEA WORLD’S NEWEST EDITIONS – Twin Polar Cubs

  It was celebrations all round at Sea World on the Gold Coast, as two rat-sized polar bear cubs made their debut in the early hours of Wednesday morning.   The twins are the third and fourth cubs to be born at the park’s Polar Bear Shores...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE aka John Cave

  John Stanley Cave better known under his stage name of “William Shakespeare” was born 19 November 1948 in Sydney, New South Wales. Fame that comes out of nowhere and disappears just as fast may be the cruelest of all. A star at 26, finished...

SIMPSON’S DONKEY Anzac Heroes

A THIS IS THE STORY OF JACK AND HIS DONKEY John “Jack” Simpson Kirkpatrick (6 July 1892 – 19 May 1915) was born at South Shields, in the north of England but later moved to Australia. He came from a large family being one of eight...

ANZAC DAY “Lest we forget”

  THE SHRINE OF REMEMBRANCE The Shrine of Remembrance located in the Kings Domain on St Kilda Road, is one of Melbourne’s most recognized landmarks and is also the most visited war memorial in Australia. It was designed and built as a memorial to the men...

ERIN MORAN

ERIN MORAN - dead at 56   Child star Erin Moran who shot to fame as the daughter of Howard and Marion Cunningham on “Happy Days” and its spinoff “Joanie Loves Chachi" has died overnight.   911 dispatchers got the frantic call just after 4pm from someone reporting...

APPLE & BERRY CRUMBLE

  Ingredients The Crumble Topping 2 cups plain flour 1 cup brown sugar 2 cups oats 1 cup macadamia, Almond, or Cashew nuts, chopped 250g unsalted butter, cold & Cubed Filling 1kg Granny Smith apples, peeled & chopped 1kg fresh blueberries, raspberries and boysenberries (any Berries) zest of 1 lemon, 1 orange or 1 lime ¼...

CHRISTOPHER REEVE

a Best known for his lead role in four of the Superman Movies, Christopher Reeve was a fictional character with superhuman characteristics and abilities, which were used to benefit mankind. But in 1995, sadly Reeve’s fictional powers, couldn’t save him from his greatest challenge ahead,...