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Council backs calls for new memorial to honour 1941 victims
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (691+ words) The fatalities were Matilda Lillian Grattan, aged 54, killed at her home at 40 Ashley Gardens with her...
Isle of Dogs wartime victims remembered through memorial plaque
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (394+ words) Leonard Moss, The fatalities also include Mobile First Aid Unit and Nursing staff Mary Bridget Cooke, Lillian...
Tributes pour in for fearless D-Day WW2 hero after his death at 101
2+ week, 23+ hour ago (760+ words) A D-Day hero who feared he would not survive the war has died aged 101. Braveheart Don Turrell was a Corporal with The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) when he sailed across the Channel as part of the liberating Allied armada in June…...
Think you know Austin? The truth about Barton Springs, bats and breakfast tacos
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1387+ words) How much do you really know about the Live Music Capital of the World and so-called birthplace of breakfast tacos? Is Barton Springs actually 68 degrees all the time? And where did all those bats come from? There's a lot of…...
This week in local history
3+ week, 6+ day ago (1595+ words) NATIONAL SECRETARY—18-year-old Craig Johnson of Shell Rock was elected national secretary of the American Junior Quarter Horse Association (from Aug. 19, 1976). RESIDENTIAL LEADERS—“These four women who live in different quadrants of the city of Waverly have been named residential…...
Yes, Skin From Wyoming Wild West Outlaw "Big Nose George" Was Used To Make Shoes
4+ week, 1+ day ago (1717+ words) This is the macabre story of a once-common practice of binding books with human skin — and how Wyoming did that one better by skinning notorious Wild West outlaw "Big Nose George" and making him into a pair of shoes. His…...