Crimes are a reflection of the period and society in which they occur. What happened, the objects and people involved, the location, how it was recorded – or even if it was recorded – all tell us something about the values, attitudes, and power structures of the day.
This data visualisation looks at the almost 20 million words that were written in the New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime from the beginning of 1860 up until the end of 1900* to see what it shows about how the people, places, and things, changed in NSW over that period.

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“Reed felt a strong sense of urgency. Here, he thought, is a guy who can drive or fly just about any vehicle, with ties to foreign governments, who is known to use satellite phones and pay in cash, and who deals with foreign corporations that would give him funding outside U.S. jurisdiction. He wanted to get T. R. into custody before he fled the country, never to be seen again.””I got to the point where I was probably too arrogant and cocky for my own good,” T. R. said. “I thought that I would never be arrested, or that I could buy my way out of it. That’s how things work in the rest of the world.” SL TM
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Phantom of the WAPera (ft. Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, hosted on his own official TikTok channel); Anaconda of the Opera; Phantom of the Dark Horse; and the Phantom meets Carmen (on ukelele) and Bach (on piano).
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Variety reports the actor was 42 years old. The Black Panther star has battled colon cancer since 2016, Variety said, linking to a tweet on the actor’s account. “It was the honor of his life to bring King T’Challa to life in Black Panther.”
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Patrick Cashin worked as the MTA’s official photographer, documenting the ins and outs of one of the world’s busiest transit systems.
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JS Bach on a wooden xylophone in the forest A small youtube video of the sinple, yet complex musical instrument.

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A film from 1902 of the oldest electric elevated railway in the world.
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In 1908, the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society purchased two five-story brownstones and a church in Brooklyn, New York. This collection of buildings (along with numerous other neighboring properties purchased over the years) would serve as the headquarters for the Jehovah’s Witnesses for over a century. Brownstoner has a history of the headquarters written at the time of the massive property’s sale in 2016 to everyone’s least favorite son-in-law (the Jehovah’s Witnesses moved their operation upstate to Warwick). Earlier this year, as part of the effort to transform this secretive compound into an office and retail complex, walls that once locked the property up tight were torn down and eleven elaborate gardens were planted facing out to the street.
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Alexander Larman on why Oxfam charity bookshops, “as tremendous as they are, may be the end of the second-hand bookseller.” posted by adrianhon (0 comments total)