“Kaputt…” (Translation:  Broken...  or  Smashed ) -           Manfred von Richtofen Manfred Albrecht  Freiherr  von Ri...

  Gas Lane in Millers Point, 1909-1913, paved with woodblocks. (Click on photos to enlarge) Gas Lane in Millers Point was paved with ...

  “...in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” -        Anne Frank A few days ago I posted a sto...

  The following report is from the yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald .   It should be an “In case you missed it. . .” Bytes item but i...

  It’s funny where looking up things takes you, in the present case, kilts.   Not that I was looking up kilts but that I was led there....

  1903   "Senator McCarthy, you are not going to call me Alice. The trashman and the policeman on my block call me Alice, bu...

  Ship #1: On 1 March 2008 the USS New York, an American warship, was christened in a ceremony at Avondale Shipyard in New Orlea...

  Ernest Miller Hemingway  (1899 –1961) was an American author and journalist whose economical and understated style had a stron...

      The Funny Friday items below were posted too late to make the email send to those Byters who subscribe.   By way of explan...

  I won’t be at my computer for the next few days so there won’t be a Bytes on Sunday.   To all the Byter mums, have a very happy M...

(Caution: risqué language) In 1990 John Hewson (above) became leader of the Liberal Party of Australia following Andrew Peacock’s ...