History
The Puckle Gun: Repeating Firepower in 1718
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Sneering at the Land That Pays Them
Poor lefties. They were cheated out of indulging in their annual orgy of bashing all things male and white when ANZAC Day services were cancelled this year. Even worse, ordinary Australians and New Zealanders still got to show their patriotism and respect, as millions of candles flickered at dawn from
The World’s Oldest Aborigine
One Nation NSW leader Mark Latham has taken to Facebook to ask, “Who says Indigenous life expectancy has fallen?” Latham is referring to an ABC story which, if taken seriously, would suggest that some Aboriginal Australians live for a century or more. The story was, of course, about the upcoming
More People Come to New Zealand
Jean Francois Marie de Surville is a French explorer (all French explorers have long names). He is looking for a fabled rich Pacific Island in 1769 (Tahiti), when he goes south from the Solomon Islands, becomes caught in a storm, and decides to try to find Tasman’s squiggly line
The BFD Video: The V-2 Missile Heist
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The BFD Video: The Cold War Episode 13
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Brace for the New World Order
When Great Britain emerged blinking from the rubble of the Second World War it was a nation hugely in debt and on the brink of a silent social revolution. The country’s war debt to the United States was in the order of $3.7 billion, and despite Harold Macmillan’
The BFD Face of the Day
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ANZAC Day Speech
This is a speech that Peter Brown MBE gave about 26 years ago in his capacity as Mayor of the Kaipara District Council. It was made at the ANZAC Day service in Dargaville. The Patriotic Fund mentioned was used to fund aide for servicemen and returned servicemen. Peter Brown MBE,
Satirical Image of the Day
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Trooper Tom
Trooper Tom, 50060, from West Melton had a vision; it was his brother Jim, his younger by three years and 364 days. Jim was in uniform, he was soaking wet, he didn’t say, or do, anything, he simply vanished almost as instantly as he’d appeared, leaving Tom with
More People Come to New Zealand
Sailing east from there, Tasman sights the west coast of yet another unknown land on 13 December 1642. It’s the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand, somewhere in the vicinity of Hokitika and Perpendicular Point (“a large, high-flying land” 171oE, 42oS). Tasman sails north along the
The Return of the Rusted Metal Rat
For an officially atheist nation, the Chinese seem to be about the most superstitious folk on the face of the planet. Maybe it’s not the “sorcerers stole our penises” craziness that periodically leads to dozens of lynchings by angry (presumably penis-less – or did they get better?) mobs in Africa,