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West Coast: Digging into the past on the wild West Coast
A new venture in Denniston allows visitors to step back 100 years to experience life in the coal mines, complete with ghostly visions and echoes of another era, writes Jim Eagles.

Jim Hopkins: Move over, Don - today it's love and who's wearing what
"We have a lot more to remember than you people will ever have." A World War II veteran, speaking on radio last Tuesday.

No love lost between Turkey and Armenia
A monument built to celebrate friendship between Turkey and Armenia is being dismantled.

American beauties up for auction
Six striking American cars from a period spanning 40 years are among 27 classic vehicles that will go under the hammer in Sydney on May 2.

Anzac Day: World War II
With flames spreading rapidly though his bomber aircraft, 22-year-old Sergeant Jimmy Ward tied a rope around his waist and crawled out on to the wing to douse the flames.

Anzac Day: World War I
It makes Alfrieda Thompson smile wryly that her war-hero father named her after a girlfriend he had during World War I.

Editorial: We must keep honouring all who serve
It has been easy to honour service in World War II. No other war, including World War I, has had such just cause.

Life and death in Flanders fields
The history of New Zealand at war is largely one of ordinary people called upon in extraordinary times - men and women who left their day jobs when their country called them. In Kiwi Battlefields, Ron Palenski tells how one such man

Memories more sweet than bitter
The firefight between a nine-strong patrol and up to 80 Viet Cong was one of the New Zealand Army's bravest battles, facing almost insurmountable odds. Nearly 43 years later, the men of Victor 3 One platoon met again for the first time.

Melbourne: Raiding the lost ark of the boy pharaoh
Greg Dixon visits a new exhibition of King Tutankhamun's precious treasures in Melbourne.

TV Pick of the week: Anzac Day coverage
While many will be up early on Monday for dawn services, for those who prefer to stay in their pyjamas, but still pay their respects, Maori Television's Anzac Day coverage starts at 5.50am.

Past still present for African Americans
When Confederate forces fired the first shots at Fort Sumter on April 12, 150 years ago, triggering the American Civil War, almost four million African Americans were slaves.