A WWI Diary That Never Was

WWI Diary was to have brought you the whole of World War I as it was reported in the papers of the day, exactly 100 years later. For a year I blogged news leading up to the big war, thinking if there was any real interest regular readers would trickle in. They did not. Count: zero. So I stopped blogging the war news. For students of the time, 1914-1918 editions are available on the Web as thousands of individual articles via a Times service called Spiderbites.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Flies Across The Alps.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 14, 1913:
Bider Is Nearly Frozen in Passing Over the Jungfrau.
Special Cable to The New York Times
    MILAN, July 13.— The aviator Bider this morning flew over the Bernese Alps from Berne to Milan, a distance of 115 miles, reaching a height of 3,470 metres (about 12,207 feet) as he passed over the Jungfrau.
    Bider said he almost despaired of getting across this mountain. Although he lightened the aeroplane to the utmost possible extent, the air above the glacier was so rarified that it took two hours of perilous endeavor to surmount the peak. The temperature was below zero, and he
    was so benumbed with cold that only by a supreme effort could he retain control of the steering wheel.

A WWI Diary That Never Was

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Flies Across The Alps.

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