#historytrivia — Public Fediverse posts
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You are looking at a photo by John Gilpin, taken on 22 Februari, 1970, of Keith Sapford, a "wheel-well stowaway"
Keith, only 14 years old, hid inside the wheel-well of a douglas dc 8, on a Japan Air Lines flight from Sydney to Japan.(flight number unknown)
Keith is said to have snuck in the wheel-well because he wanted to see the world. -
🔮✨ Dive into the riveting world of grocery lists and political angst with Orwell's "unpublished" diaries, brought to you 70 years late for absolutely no reason! 🕰️ Don't worry, the gripping updates on Syria from 1942 will totally give you the edge at your next history trivia night. 🙄📜
https://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/page/2/ #OrwellDiaries #PoliticalAngst #GroceryLists #HistoryTrivia #SyriaUpdates #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Ah yes, the groundbreaking #cartography of ancient coins and inscriptions, because everyone’s been desperately needing a treasure map to the trivia nobody asked for. 🗺️ Just follow the #Hesperia breadcrumbs, and maybe you’ll find a lost civilization—or just your way to a history lecture no one wanted. 😂
http://hesperia.ucm.es/consulta_hesperia/mapas.php #ancientcoins #historytrivia #lostcivilizations #HackerNews #ngated