Music: Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
World War I (initialized as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Wars, was a global military conflict (28 June 1914 – 11 November 1918) that embroiled most of the world’s great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: [...]
Giant listening horns used to listen for approaching aircraft during WWI. Image on display at the Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington DC. Credit
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Desert Village by Essence
Egypt as you probably haven’t seen it, free of tourism.
Photos are dated (aprox.) from 1857 to 1923. So photos about Abu Simbel are from the original place.
Thank you to Brooklyn Museum and National Galleries of Scotland and people that comment and enrich available data.
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After our previous trip in the past Photochroms of Norway from 1890s to 1900s, today we are going to travel to the last years of 19th century in Scotland thank you to the Library of the US Congress (LOC).
The Photochrom Print Collection has almost 6,000 views of Europe and the Middle East and 500 views [...]
Princess (i.e. Princes) Street, the castle, and Scott Monument, Edinburgh, Scotland. Credit
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
The American 1912 = Electrical engineers Allen and Meckler would have beaten everyone across the Atlantic with their $5,000 monster “Hydro-Biplane” if everything worked as planned; however, their trail faded soon after completion of a 104′ flying ship with a 76′ wingspan and we don’t know its ultimate fate. A small article in the New [...]
Meckler-Allen Aeroplane. Credit
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
We have reached the era of cheap flights thank you to many people.
I have found some of them thank you to the Library of US Congress.
It is remarkable that they dared to fly with those artifacts.
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
At least sometimes it seemed funnier.
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