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... I am Tracey. I am an Australian, born and raised, living in Texas with my husband, Michael and our four year old son, Clancy, a.k.a. 'Squeelin' the Wrecker'. It's going on five years since I set foot on Australian soil. I love it here when I'm not homesick

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Arts & Humanities > Ancient History The life and death of King Tut: 1 of 3

The Life and Death of Tutankhamun. (1342 1323 BC. The New Kingdom. 18th Dynasty) He was born Tutankhaten to the Pharaoh Akhenaten (pron. Ark-en-are-ten) and his secondary wife, Kiya, in the new capital city of Akhetaten (now known as Amarna). He was born into a world where his father and step mother, Nefertiti, were consider...
Arts & Humanities > The World Wars World War II: Espionage: 1 of 2

Nancy Wake The Allie's Most Decorated Servicewoman of World War II The Gestapo dubbed her 'The White Mouse' and placed a five million franc price on her head, dead or alive. Nancy Wake was born in Wellington, New Zealand (August 30th, 1912) but raised in Sydney, Australia. The youngest of six children and far younger than he...
Arts & Humanities > Artists & Artwork Biography: Vincent Van Gogh: 12 of 17

Vincent Willem Van Gogh was born on March 30th, 1853 in Groot-Zundert, the Netherlands. He was the eldest of six children (three sisters and two brothers) and while showing no artistic talent growing up, his sister had said that he was a 'serious and introspective child'. Details of Vincent's early childhood are extremely sk...
Arts & Humanities > Middle Ages History of the Knights Templar: 8 of 9

Friday the 13th and the Knights Templar. Is Friday the 13th considered unlucky? Jacques de Molay, last (known) Grand Master of the Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, known more commonly as the Knights Templar, certainly thought so. The Order of the Knights Templar was founded in 1118 to protect Christians on p...
Arts & Humanities > European History Biography: Howard Carter, the man who found Tutankhamun: 2 of 2

Howard Carter The Man Who Found Tutankhamun Howard Carter was born on March 9th, 1874 in London, the youngest of eight children. He received little formal education but studied art at his father's knee, developing a real talent but not the interest to continue the family business of portrait painting. He found a deep and abi...