First “take a trip with The History Guy” starts today! In the Uber on my way to Lambert St Louis International Airport.
Did you know that the precursor to Lambert Field hosted the first International Air Meet in 1910, attended by both the Wright Brothers and US President Theodore Roosevelt?
Absent a few coincidences, and "fortunate blunders" on December 5, 1941 the history of December 7th could have different.
Who doesn't want to start their day feeling minty fresh? That question goes back farther than you might imagine.
On November 26, 1914 the battleship HMS Bulwark was moored in the river Medway, part of a fleet assembled in anticipation of a possible raid against London by the Imperial German fleet when, without any warning, as one witness reported, “there was a flash, a cloud of smoke, and the ship vanished.”