Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia’s “greatest short story writer”.
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The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the world’s most recognisable landmarks. Not only is it the largest steel arch
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For 400 years, the Ottoman Empire had held sway across the Middle East. However, as World War I approached, and the empire of the Turks, who were allied with the Germans, was fraying at the edges, regarded as the sick man of Europe.
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Remembrance Day in the United Kingdom commemorates the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts.
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