Author: Adventures in History

Known for his numerous skills, Jonny Kim today recorded another milestone in his career: he piloted an airplane for the first time. The professional story of Jonny Kim, an American born in Los Angeles, but from a South Korean family, really begins in his childhood. He, who is now a Harvard Doctor of Medicine and Lieutenant Commander (equivalent to a Corvette Captain), suffered domestic abuse from his father during his childhood. The situation at home was so critical that Kim even pulled out a gun and pointed it at his own father when he was a child. Later, this same weapon was used…

A team of archaeologists has discovered a Mittani Empire-era city (about 3400 years old), located on the Tigris River. The settlement emerged from the waters of the Mosul reservoir earlier this year after water levels dropped due to extreme drought in Iraq The sprawling city, with a palace and several buildings, may be ancient Zakhiku, believed to have been an important center of the Mittani Empire (1550-1350 BC). Currently, Iraq is one of the countries most affected by climate change in the world. The south of the country, in particular, has suffered from extreme drought for months. To prevent crops…

The boy in the photo “Surrender of the Jewish Boy in Warsaw” is one of thousands of Jews held in the Warsaw Ghetto, a neighborhood rife with hunger and death. In 1942, the Nazis began sending local residents to concentration camps — 5,000 at a time. Resistance groups began to form in the neighborhood. “We saw ourselves as a Jewish underworld whose fate was tragic. Our time has come without any sign of hope or rescue,” said the leader of one of the groups, Mordecai Anielewicz. In 1943, the year the image was taken by an unknown author, Hitler ‘s troops came to Warsaw to take the rest…

The founding myth of Rome features twins Romulus and Remus. Abandoned in the waters of the River Tiber, they were rescued by a she-wolf who cared for them and watched them grow. Some episodes are sparsely documented, such as the archives of the Queen of Poland (1664-1688), which tells the story of a boy raised by a brown bear in a Lithuanian forest. The boy was discovered in the spring of 1663 and later taken to the Polish capital, so there is no further news. Wolf Girl of Devils River was featured in some local newspapers. Arrested in Texas in…

Due to traumatic episodes that occurred in our childhood, we are prone to carry marks for the rest of our lives. That’s the case of Beth Thomas, the six-year-old girl who wanted to murder her parents and shocked the world with her documentary about her life, entitled The Wrath of an Angel. Beth was adopted in 1984 with her younger brother Jonathan by Christian couple Tim and Nancy Thomas, who dreamed of having children. However, the children came from an abusive and dysfunctional home. When she was just one year old, Beth was orphaned by her mother and left in the care of her biological…

At the beginning of April, Embraer sent an E190 E2 model jet painted with a technological shark to tour Vietnam. Not least, with one of the fastest growing aviation markets in the world and with two companies looking to upgrade their fleet – state-owned Vietnam Airlines and Bamboo Airways – there are many opportunities there. But it will not be easy, as the competitor will, as always, be Airbus, with its best-selling A220. If in May Bamboo Airways signaled an upcoming opportunity to acquire new aircraft, now it was Vietnam Airlines’ turn to confirm what it had also indicated before: it will replace its…

The management of Gatwick Airport, in the London region, has apologized to a quadriplegic passenger who was left for more than an hour on a plane after landing while awaiting assistance. It is the second case of its kind to have repercussions in the country in less than two weeks. Victoria Brignell, 45, was returning home on a British Airways flight from Malta on Saturday 4 June. After landing, the passenger waited for 90 minutes for airport agents to bring a wheelchair to help her get around. In England, airport staff have a responsibility to help people with disabilities on and off planes.…

An incident that occurred a few months ago revealed, this week, a video taken by a passenger in which the moment in which the plane scraped its tail on the runway during takeoff was recorded. The occurrence, called a “tail strike”, involved the Boeing 737 MAX-9 registered under the registration TF-ICB, operated by the Icelandic company Icelandair. According to data obtained by The Aviation Herald , the jet was departing on flight FI-681 from Keflavik, Iceland, to Seattle, United States, on February 26, when the lower rear part of the fuselage made contact with the ground in take-off from runway 19 from…

The opening of the 1986 (and also 2021) film begins by talking about the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School. At the end of the description, the narrator states: “pilots call it Top Gun” . However, the name Top Gun was not created by pilots, but by a journalist, in reference to the “best weapon” available on the market, in this case the fighter pilots of the Navy and Marines. The name came from Ehud Yonay, who in 1983 wrote an article about the military school for California Magazine. The term ended up catching on and was enshrined by the first film, from 1986, and…