
Debt of Honour, a feature exhibition at the Museum of Western Australia on the 2nd World War commando operation by 2nd/2nd Independent Company in East Timor
Microbes, infectious diseases and the causal relationship that links them

book review on Explorers; the Royal Geographical Society’s introduction to the adventurers who first opened the door on remote places, with links to the RGS, Palin and Fiennes home pages

Tweet Fever. How malaria has ruled humankind for 500,000 years. Sonia Shah. Allen & Unwin. Australia 2010. ISBN 978 1 74237 048 4 If you want to read a book on malaria critically, there can’t be a better way than at bedtime sweating under the protection of a mosquito net. I was overseas, germ hunting again [...]

Apart from the memorials, the quiet fields of Western Pennsylvania bear little evidence of the monumental struggle that swept over this landscape from 1st to 3rd July, 1863. The battle of Gettysburg was a key turning point in the American Civil War, and came to be recognised as the high point of the Confederate army’s fortunes.
Keep in touch with your inner gnome

MASH fans will be familiar with Trapper and Hawkeye. Their present-day counterparts have been busy fighting arbovirus vectors in the … [More...]

The MicroGnome's been busy lately. While engaged in environmental health assessment field work at a location 'somewhere to the south of … [More...]

It is the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin during the Second World War. More bombs rained down on Darwin Harbour that during the … [More...]

When the wind blows .. the cradle will rock. So the rhyme goes, reminding us that the elements are indiscriminate in their destructive … [More...]
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