*Ø* Ned Kelly's Last Stand
Oops!
I'm a day late to post here about Ned Kelly's Last Stand, because it happened on June 28, 1880. But it was only today that I found time to write up a bit of a chronology about the amazing siege at the Glenrowan Inn, when Ned and his famous bushranger gang made their own heavy iron armour but were still brought down in a hail of bullets from 30 state troopers.
There's a few other snippets there as well, such as this:
Ned in film
One of the world's first feature length films was The Story of the Kelly Gang released in 1906, with a then-unprecedented running time of 70 minutes, of which all that remain are a few minutes of film, a synopsis and a program. Mick Jagger starred in a poorly reviewed 1970 film, Ned Kelly, directed by Tony Richardson.
In 2003, Ned Kelly, a $30 million budget movie about Kelly's life was released. Directed by Gregor Jordan, it starred Heath Ledger (as Kelly), Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, and Naomi Watts.
Read more at the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days, every day. Click June 28 when you're there.
Also, if you click February 15 there, today I've added a lot more to the bit about the John Frum cult in Vanuatu, whose tribal members believe that an American messiah will come for them one day.
Oops!
I'm a day late to post here about Ned Kelly's Last Stand, because it happened on June 28, 1880. But it was only today that I found time to write up a bit of a chronology about the amazing siege at the Glenrowan Inn, when Ned and his famous bushranger gang made their own heavy iron armour but were still brought down in a hail of bullets from 30 state troopers.
There's a few other snippets there as well, such as this:
Ned in film
One of the world's first feature length films was The Story of the Kelly Gang released in 1906, with a then-unprecedented running time of 70 minutes, of which all that remain are a few minutes of film, a synopsis and a program. Mick Jagger starred in a poorly reviewed 1970 film, Ned Kelly, directed by Tony Richardson.
In 2003, Ned Kelly, a $30 million budget movie about Kelly's life was released. Directed by Gregor Jordan, it starred Heath Ledger (as Kelly), Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, and Naomi Watts.
Read more at the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days, every day. Click June 28 when you're there.
Also, if you click February 15 there, today I've added a lot more to the bit about the John Frum cult in Vanuatu, whose tribal members believe that an American messiah will come for them one day.
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