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Welcome to the History Group of Inspector Rex's website at Townsville, Queensland, Australia

• Notices

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  • History notice 3
    
  • History notice 4
    
  • History notice 5
    
  • History notice 6
    

• Books, Papers etc

  • Early History of Townsville, Qld
  • History of the Old Quarantine-Station Pallarenda
    Contributed by Catherine Smith
  • Cape Pallarenda Quarantine Station showing buildings
  • Contributed by Nanette Grace -->
    • The Greeks
    • The Romans

• Quotations on History

  • Quotations on History

• Historical old photos

  • Early Hollywood pictures
    Contributed by Catherine Smith
  • Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein
    Contributed by Inspector Rex
  • Jawaharlal Nehru meeting with Albert Einstein at Princeton, USA, 1949
    Contributed by Inspector Rex
  • Subash Chandra Bose, Indian nationalist hero, meeting with Hitler
    Contributed by Inspector Rex

• Photo and Text Funnies

  • Two feet of snow
    
  • Gallows Humour
    
  • For those of us with a little stress
    
  • Photos to make you smile
    

• Internet History sources

  • General History Resources
  • history.com
  • Internet History Sourcebooks Project, Fordham Universiy, New York - Very useful!
    • Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
    • Internet Medieval Sourcebook
    • Internet Modern History Sourcebook

• Videos, Text and Pictures List

  • Videos, Text and Pictures List

• Power Point/Video Presentations

  • The silent age of Hollywood
    Contributed by Kloudya Pollard
  • The Islamic conquest of Persia
    Contributed by Inspector Rex
  • Etruscan sketches
    Contributed by Kloudya Pollard

• Podcasts, Text Presentations

  • Podcast from the BBC
    Contributed by Michele Cloonan
  • Timeline of Australian history
    Contributed by Ray Hatton

• Ancient History

  • Ancient History
  • Famous Battles
  • Languages, Religion and Maps

• Inspector Rex's History Snippets

  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #1
    Who was Pheidippides (or Philippides)?
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #2
    The Five Secret Societies
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #3
    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to All
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #4
    Babylonian New Year 2000BC
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #5
    Was 1 January 2020 the start of a new decade?
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #6
    The First English Prince of Wales - 1301.
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #7
    St. Louis, Missouri - Gateway to the West
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #8
    The Queen in the Quran
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #9
    The iron pillar of Delhi
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #10
    David and Goliath

• Inspector Rex's History Snippets

  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #11
    What was the most brutal military tactic in history?
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #12
    The Catalhoyuk community
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #13
    Where is Genghis Khan buried? No one knows
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #14
    Groom of the Stool
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #15
    Seth
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #16
    The Silk Road
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #17
    The Djinn
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #18
    Can King Leopold II be compared to Hitler?
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #19
    The Reichs
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #20
    Did Hitler snub Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics?

• Inspector Rex's History Snippets

  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #21
    Why didn't Jews organize and rebel against the Nazi rule?
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #22
    Vercingetorix
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #23
    What did Kaiser Wilhelm do after World War 1?
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #24
    Greenland’s Vikings
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #25
    John Monash (1865-1931)
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #26
    Who are some famous Brits of Jewish origin?
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #27
    Derinkuyu
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #28
    Caffa 1346 to 1347 to 1348
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #29
    The Greatest Exterminators
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #30
    Which was the most “peaceful” war in history in terms of destruction and casualties?

• Inspector Rex's History Snippets

  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #31
    The Star Spangled Banner meaning
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #32
    The Marines Hymn
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #33
    The Gerrymander
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #34
    The WWI Origins of the Poppy as a Remembrance Symbol
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #35
    Why is Genghis Khan called Khan?
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #36
    Why do they call Germany Fatherland and Russia Motherland?
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #37
    Himalayan Hunza Tribe
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #38
    Vlad the Impaler
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #39
    The Battle of Kohima and Imphal
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #40
    Germanic and Slavic Tribes in Early Europe

• Inspector Rex's History Snippets

  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #41
    Great Pictures from the Past
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #42
    Names of Indian cities ending with 'abad'
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #43
    Female Russian snipers of WWII
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #44
    Famous people
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #45
    Soviet secret-police organisations
  • Inspector Rex's History Snippet #46
    St. Petersburg - Petrograd - Leningrad - St. Petersburg