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 Gandhi's "Quit India" speech by The Ovi Team
08 August 2019
The Quit India speech is a speech made by Mahatma Gandhi on August 8th 1942, on the eve of the Quit India movement. You can read it in full here... (1 comment) |  Keats returns by The Ovi Team
08 August 2019
August 8th 1818; on this day, 22-year-old John Keats returns from a strenuous walking tour of the Lake Districts and Scotland with friends. On the tour, he begins to show symptoms of the tuberculosis that will kill him within three years. (1 comment) |  The Great Australian Tourist Visa Scam by Murray Hunter
07 August 2019
International tourism is one of the bright lights of the Australian economy with almost 10 million international visitors to Australia last year and growing around 9% per annum. (Add a comment) |  Contemplating the world by Nikos Laios
07 August 2019
Sunday,
Six am and dogs
Were barking outside,
And the birds started
Chirping and the sun (Add a comment) |  Go to your room... by Katerina Charisi
07 August 2019
There comes a day when you realize that your child is actually a human with real personality and not just ...decorative. (Add a comment) |  Berserk Alert! #223 by Tony Zuvela
07 August 2019
Tony Zuvela and his view of the world around us in a constant berserk alert! (Add a comment) |  Henry Fielding leaves London for Lisbon by The Ovi Team
07 August 2019
August 7th; on this day in 1754, novelist Henry Fielding leaves London for Lisbon seeking a healthier climate. Fielding had suffered from ill health for some time, but his trip to Lisbon fails to ease his condition. He dies there two months later. Fieldin (Add a comment) |  Arthur Miller cleared of contempt by The Ovi Team
07 August 2019
August 7th 1958; Washington's Court of Appeals has quashed playwright Arthur Miller's conviction for contempt of Congress after a two-year legal battle. In May the year before, a judge convicted Mr Miller for refusing to tell the House of Un-American Ac (Add a comment) |  Hiroshima Anniversary Day: Developing a Nuclear-weapon Abolition Strategy by Rene Wadlow
06 August 2019
Thus governments and civil society groups, often at odds on other questions, might be able to set out a strategy for progress toward a nuclear-weapon-free world. There has always been an ebb and flow... (Add a comment) |  Young Couple - @ Heart Attack Greasy Grill by Michael Lee Johnson
06 August 2019
I was a little boy,
tad hillbilly son,
patterned then in
present tense,
hardly old enough
tall enough to work (Add a comment) |  The Retainer Solution: The European Union, Libya and Irregular Migration by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
06 August 2019
There is a venom in international refugee policy that refuses to go away: officials charged with their tasks, passing on their labours to those who might see the UN Refugee Convention as empty wording... (Add a comment) |  Sharks Theme Tune by Paul Woods
06 August 2019
Originally from Port Macquarie, Australia, Paul Woods is a Cartoonist and Illustrator based in South London who also plays drums, works as a Cameraman and likes bad horror films. (Add a comment) |  Enola Gay by The Ovi Team
06 August 2019
August 6th 1945; the American B-29 bomber, known as the Enola Gay, dropped the first atomic bomb on an inhabited area. The bomb named "Little Boy" was dropped over the centre of Hiroshima, Japan. An estimated 140,000 people were killed. And nobody knows (Add a comment) |  Isaac Hayes by The Ovi Team
06 August 2019
August 6th 1942; on this day Isaac Hayes born. A significant force in popular culture from the mid-1960s until his death in 2008, Isaac Hayes was born in Covington, Tennessee on this day in 1942. (Add a comment) | | newer 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 older |
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