History you should know!!

Suitcases of people sent to concentration camps. Poland, Gdańsk, World War II Museum. Each suitcase is a family, a life. It looks like a monument to the crime of humanity.😢


1918 spanish flu...




*** Unprecedented Сomfort in the Air by 1939

Not bad a location for the Unknown Planet TV-series, indeed.
Such a plane was made by Boeing, as many as 12 were released, not a single one survived until 2020, though, unfortunately.

The passenger compartment had one general layout. All passengers were served as VIP. On Transatlantic flights, the plane could be in the air for more than 12 hours, but comfort was unprecedented. Chairs were laid out in sleeping shelves (36 pcs.).

There was a lounge and a restaurant served by stewards. The menu contained 6 dishes served on porcelain dishes with silver cutlery. Male and female restrooms were separate.

A ticket cost $675 round-trip New York-England and $760 one-way San Francisco-Hong Kong.

The first such Boeing 314 flew from San Francisco to Hong Kong in January 1939: one way (with landings) took 6 days. And so regularly for 3 years, until Pearl Harbor struck, and the United States did entered WW2 (Dec. 1941).

The all-metal wing of this flying boat was from a Boeing bomber.

Crew: 11 + 2 stewards. 
Passenger capacity: daytime - 74, nighttime - 36.
Payload (mail and cargo) - 4,500 kg
Length: 32 m, wingspan: 46 m, height: 6 m.
Weight (empty): 21,900 kg, loaded - 38,000 kg

Maximum speed: 340 km/ph, cruising speed: 302 km/ph at an altitude of 3,400 m. Range 5,896 km, practical ceiling: 5,980 m.

There is a video [link in a comment]: wonderful times - 1939! Children sleeping on their sofa high in the air under the warm blankets, while flying to Hong Kong.

Peacefully, indeed... :)




The real Peaky Blinders.
1890’s Birmingham gang mugshots

They have blade sewn into peaks of their caps so they could use them as weapons.


Dicranurus monstrosus, one of the most recognizable trilobites out there from Atchana, Morocco, lower Devonian. The recurving occipital horns might have served as frame for algae and sponges to camouflage the trilobite.

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip at the horse races, 1968.







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