A Brief History On July 29, 1973, British race car driver Roger Williamson met his death when his Formula 1race car crashed at the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort Circuit in the Netherlands. The 25 year old 2 time British Formula 3 champion was trapped under his flipped car, not seriously hurt from the crash, but was burned to death as the car was engulfed in flames. We wrote about that crash in our July 29 article, “10 Famous Car Wrecks”. Today we look at another 5 famous/infamous car crashes that you may find interesting. Digging Deeper 1. Tiger Woods, November…
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A Brief History On July 28, 1935, the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress made its initial flight. Called the Flying Fortress because of its unprecedented heavy armament of 12 (later13) .50 caliber machine guns, this mighty bomber would be eclipsed by other planes in future years. Here we list 10 of the Most Heavily Armed Warplanes, meaning armed with machine guns and cannons. (No significance to the order listed.) Obviously, World War II was the golden age of gun armament, with modern fighters using missiles as primary armament. Still, some modern planes have impressive guns nonetheless. Digging Deeper 1. Convair B-36 Peacemaker…
A Brief History Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1, 1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia joined to form the semi-autonomous federal Dominion of Canada, which began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. Fairmont.com commissioned 10 hand-drawn GIFs in the style of Canadian Pacific’s vintage travel posters, each of which represents a fun fact about Canada. Digging Deeper 10. Apology Act 9. Polar Bears 8. Coins 7. Mac and Cheese 6. Ogopogo 5. Sunshine Village 4. Maple…
A Brief History Thomas Parker, described by Lord Kelvin as “the Edison of Europe”, built the first practical production electric car in London in 1884, using his own specially designed high-capacity rechargeable batteries. Today, over 130 years later, data from WeBuyAnyCar.com in the UK reveals that owning an electric car will make perfect sense for the average driver by 2022. This year is the tipping point for when it will become cheaper to power a car with a battery rather than gas. Digging Deeper If you liked this article and would like to receive notification of new articles, please feel welcome to subscribe…
A Brief History Bingo may not seem like the most exciting activity, but it has been around for hundreds of years and still exists to this day. Although it is a bit more wacky now with live bingo games at sites such as umbingo, as well as musical bingo and drag queen bingo. Regular readers will know that we like to look into the history of most obscure things, in this article we are taking you back in time with bingo! Digging Deeper – Where Did Bingo Get its Start? So where did it all begin? There is no one answer…
