Category: BP Geographic History
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Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld, the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, died in a plane crash in 1961 in Northern Rhodesia, nowadays Zambia. Now there are people claiming it was not an accident but an assassination. Evidence is pointing to the conclusion that it was what is called a controlled flight into…
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In The Footsteps Of Karl May
Here an original photo of the author Karl May at the grave of Seneca Indian chief Sagoyewatha or Red Jacket at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York. This visit was after he had written the famous novels about his fictional identity Old Shatterhand and his fictional Apache chief friend…
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Colonising America
Queen Elizabeth sent Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh to colonise America. Gilbert was unable to establish military posts in Newfoundland, but Raleigh landed on a territory he named Virginia after the “Virgin Queen” Elizabeth. In the 17th century England was leading in establishing colonies along the Atlantic coast…
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The Enlightenment
An important person of the time of the Enlightenment who shouldn’t be forgotten was the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. He said the sentence which probably best describes the Enlightenment as a whole: “Dare to use your own mind”. Furthermore he wrote about something which is fundamental for science, and that’s…
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What Is Worth More
“’Is money so important for your people?’ [Winnetou] asked after the pause. ‘Yes, everything turns around money,’ I admitted. ‘Is it… why you joined the land-grabbers [railway construction]?’ he asked with long pauses as if every word had caused him pain. ‘In our world everybody says that happiness is about…
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Arrival in North America
France sent out an explorer named Giovanni da Verrazano as early as 1524 to locate a northwest passage around North America to find a way to India. Jaques Cartier followed in 1534 and explored the St Lawrence River. In 1562 the St Johns River area in Florida was explored by…
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Just A Noble Person
Karl May was really a good person, but sometimes not treated well. There is the story that when he travelled to Gartow in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1898 to research for another story about Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau he gave a small girl and her poor father 100…
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The First Mercedes
The Mercedes Simplex was the first Daimler which was officially named after the daughter of businessman Emil Jellinek. He had a racing team with Daimler cars which he had named after his daughter. Mercedes Jellinek herself never even had a driving license
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Benz Patent Motorwagen
The Benz Patent Motorwagen had been invented by Karl Benz in 1886 and was the very first automobile in the world. His wife Bertha helped to make the invention a success when she did the first journey by car from Mannheim to Pforzheim. On the way she invented brake lining…
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The Infamous Race
Interesting, to read an article about a – no, actually “the” – Formula One race in 1976: “Wolf team manager Frank Williams” (Sir Frank later founded Williams Racing) and “Brabham-Boss Bernie Ecclestone” (later the top boss of Formula One), “brilliant, how Bernie is managing it. Quickly, without talking about money…
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Mercedes Jellinek
The businessman Emil Jellinek had a racing team with Daimler cars around 1900 which he had named after his daughter Mercedes. Later all Daimler cars started to be called that way
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Back To The Future
Back to the Future. In the second part of the movie series from the eighties with that name Marty McFly and Doc Brown travelled into the far future. Precisely the date 21 October 2015 was entered into the controls of the DeLorean time machine. This photo was taken exactly on…
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