Armchair Dragoons Forums

The Reference Desk => History and Tall Tales => Topic started by: bayonetbrant on January 15, 2024, 10:16:57 AM

Title: Not all heroes wear capes
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 15, 2024, 10:16:57 AM

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flying-circus-aerial-maps

Quote

The first British balloonist was a remarkable Scotsman named James Tytler, who on 27 August 1784 managed a 10-minute flight in a hot air balloon just outside Edinburgh.

A jack of all trades, Tytler was also a pharmacist, surgeon, printer, poet, pamphleteer, and editor of the second edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. Less tastefully, he was the anonymous author of Ranger’s Impartial List of the Ladies of Pleasure in Edinburgh, a review of 66 of the city’s prostitutes.

Title: Re: Not all heroes wear capes
Post by: Sir Slash on January 15, 2024, 11:12:08 AM

 :bigthumb:

Title: Re: Not all heroes wear capes
Post by: bayonetbrant on January 15, 2024, 12:12:24 PM

https://twitter.com/TheGascon/status/1746752208241139942