Like any other player, Robinson needed to earn his spot on the Montreal Royals’ roster.
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Much has been written about Robinson’s first major league game. Far less is known about the first integrated spring training game in Florida.
Some have criticised the government’s fresh attempt at media reform as benefiting big media companies such as News Corp.
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If the word “reform” implies genuine public benefit, then real reform has been in short supply for all of the 106 years of electronic media regulation in Australia.
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The US’s seventh president was a populist the establishment tried to lock out of the White House. Sound familiar?
Inspired by the French strike, sex workers around the world continue to protest for better rights and conditions.
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It’s been more than 40 years since a French sex workers strike kicked off a lively global human rights movement, but their legacy lives on.
The dreaded CSS Alabama.
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If Liverpool hadn’t supplied it with warships, the South might not have been able to put up much of a fight against the Union.
Australia’s beauty is haunted by the unmarked sites of massacres and battles.
Ben Quilty, Fairy Bower Rorschach, 2012. Image courtesy of AGNSW, © Ben Quilty.
Australia has a lesson to learn from Germany when it comes to reconciling with a shameful past. Artists are taking the lead in ‘When silence falls’, a formidable exhibition.
A plebiscite on legalising same-sex marriage is bad policy that ought to be revisited.
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Australian parliaments routinely legislate in respect of socially contentious issues without resorting to plebiscites or referenda.
Australian basketballer Alice Kunek (left) attracted the ire of a team-mate for this Instagram post where she had painted her face brown.
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Debates around blackface and Indigenous health share similar characteristics that reveal aspects of Australian society when it comes to race.
Like 1066 all over again: William had his work cut out to subdue the Saxons.
Lucien Musset
Anglo-Saxon opposition to the Norman conquest lasted for years after the Battle of Hastings.
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The tiltyard – like the football pitch – was an important arena in which men could demonstrate their prowess in front of a vast audience.
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In 1942 a man called Walter White travelled to Hollywood to try and persuade filmmakers to cut the negative stereotypes of African Americans in movies.
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It is 2016 but, when it comes to housing, in many ways it could actually be 1891.
A strange day.
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Without them, June would soon fall in winter.
The Crusades evoke a romantic image of medieval knights, chivalry, romance and religious high-mindedness.
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Representing even the Crusades as wars between Christians and Muslims is a gross oversimplification and a misreading of history.
Secular Meat, 2016, Sajan Mani.
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Faced with fake history, Indian artists are digging up the past.
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It’s been a long, slow decline, so can anyone solve the Great British cuppa crisis?
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With Vikings on trend, it’s high time for a masterclass on the bizarre world of their names.
A Harper’s Weekly cartoon of German emigrants boarding a steamer in Hamburg, Germany, 1874.
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Anti-migrant rhetoric is running high in the US – but its star proponent would do well to think about his German roots.
Topsy-turvy, inside-out.
© Sarah Nicholls
Is this the future of the piano?
New York Fashion Week has grown from its humble second world war roots into a cultural juggernaut.
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New York Fashion week starts today and the world will watch outrageous designs strut down the runway. How did New York become one of the great fashion centres of the modern world?