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Nov 5, 2024 | 
onthewater.com | John Skinner
Some falls, when the sand eels move in, the fishing is so simple, anyone who could hit the ocean with an A27 diamond jig with a green tube was set to catch. No sleep needs to be lost, as almost all of the publicized fishing takes place during the day. It is easy to catch some fish, but getting the most out of the fishery can be challenging and demands close attention to the details of what you threw where, when, and under what conditions, and how you retrieved it.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
warwicktoday.com.au | John Skinner |Jin Hui
The very first official recorded buckjump competition was held in conjunction with the Warwick Show of 1906 - not a […]
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
warwicktoday.com.au | John Skinner |Jin Hui
By John Skinner
The earliest fully documented buckjump contest in Australia was a competition held at Canning Downs, Warwick, in 1857, and recorded for posterity by an unknown scribe. Competitions were often held on the large grazing properties at the end of mustering or at other times when the men needed to ‘let off some steam’ and there was a tough horse to be broken-in or ridden.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
christiantoday.com.au | John Skinner
Three different sets of ancient cave paintings have continued to throw the theory of evolution on its head. The Altamira Cave in Spain was discovered in 1868. France’s Lascaux and Chauvet caves came to light in 1940 and 1994, respectively. PicasoAfter viewing paintings in Altamira, Pablo Picasso cried in despair, “We have discovered nothing.
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Aug 13, 2023 | 
warwicktoday.com.au | John Skinner |Jin Hui
By John Skinner
Many of Warwick’s veterans of the Vietnam War paraded at the Warwick War Graves on thursday 3 August to honour one of their own. The gathering was to pay respects to Lionel James Baxter who was killed in action in Vietnam in 1965. Lance Corporal Baxter is the only soldier killed in Vietnam who is buried in Warwick while two other Warwick men, Ronald James ‘Butch’ Swanton and Thomas Suter, also killed in action, are both buried in Brisbane.
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Aug 12, 2023 | 
salon.com | John Skinner
Last week, The Atlantic published a plan to reverse Christianity's decline in popularity. But there is a problem with what Christian author Jake Meador proposes: is that it is the same old conservative Christian patriarchy that caused the decline — only in disguise. Meador starts by observing:"Nearly everyone I grew up with in my childhood church in Lincoln, Nebraska, is no longer Christian."I also spent most of my life in Lincoln, and I also know a lot of people there who are no longer Christian.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
warwicktoday.com.au | John Skinner |Jin Hui
By John Skinner
The graves of all soldiers, sailors and airmen killed during the Vietnam war will be visited by veterans on 3 August at 11am. This is an Australia-wide initiative by the veterans themselves and will include those graves of some veterans in Malaysia. In Warwick, the grave of Private Lionel James Baxter from Allora will be attended at the Warwick War Graves Cemetery, as he is the only one killed in Vietnam from this area who is buried here.
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Jul 16, 2023 | 
christiantoday.com.au | John Skinner
Few creatures capture the imagination of both young and old as much as the large dinosaurs. We know they existed, the fossil records reveal many different types, both land and aquatic, different sizes from tiny ones to giants larger than anything on earth today but they no longer exist as such.
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May 17, 2023 | 
christiantoday.com.au | John Skinner
There has been a chain letter that has been circulating for many years in e-mail boxes, and more recently in social media, which claims to be the contents of an interview of Billy Graham's daughter Anne Graham Lotz on CBS’s The Early Show. While the premise does exist (As one would be able to read in the original transcript of the interview), there were many contents that were added – as one would expect for a chain letter.
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Apr 13, 2023 | 
christiantoday.com.au | John Skinner
In 1871, Welsh-American adventurer Henry Morton Stanley succeeded in his well-publicised search for ‘missing’ Scottish missionary/explorer David Livingstone. After their famous encounter in what is now Tanzania, Stanley accepted a commission from the notorious King Leopold II of Belgium to explore the Congo region.
