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Commercial passenger aviation was new enough that, when, in July 1948, the first attempt was made to hijack a commercial passenger plane in flight occurred, the word “hijacking” hadn’t yet been coined. Instead they called the criminals “Air pirates.”
In 1906, a famed explorer saw something on the horizon that would lead an expedition of men to search for a magnificent land they hoped would be full of new and undiscovered treasures for science.
One famous dolphin lived near the shores of New Zealand in the late 1800s, and swam alongside hundreds of ships, becoming a beloved figure to locals and foreigners alike, and described as ”the best known fish in the world.”
It was relatively common in the middle ages for Kings, royals, and various other titled men to die in combat, and they were at least usually expected to fight personally. Despite the dangers of medieval combat and the expectations of nobility, however, many at the highest levels of aristocracy died in less than noble mundane accidents, and even in embarrassing circumstances.
Just two days ago the world got to see an extraordinary bit of buried history. The contents of a time capsule laid by Princess Diana in 1991 at the Great Ormond Street hospital were announced. The announcement prompted this lover of forgotten history think about time capsules, repositories of history that are, actually, history themselves.
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U-570, captured on August 27, 1941, was the only submarine to see active combat service with both the British Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine. But U-570 was not the only submarine whose capture served an enemy in the Second World War.
