scytale@piefed.zip to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoWhat are some events in history that most people would be surprised happened in parallel or at least within the same time period?message-squaremessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-24 months ago American Old West: 1803-1912 I had no idea it was that young. This lead me to this fun fact: The last stage coach robbery was 2 years after WWI began. WWI began 1914 Last stage coach robbery was 1916 Also, Titanic had already been sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic for 4 years (1912) when that stage coach was robbed.
minus-squareSanguinePar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-24 months agoIf you want to see a great (if also absurdly violent and bloody) Western about the dying days of the wild west, check out Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969). Excellent movie, set in 1913.
minus-squarehansolo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoFffffff, that’s like a movie set in 1974 released today.
I had no idea it was that young.
This lead me to this fun fact: The last stage coach robbery was 2 years after WWI began.
WWI began 1914
Last stage coach robbery was 1916
Also, Titanic had already been sitting at the bottom of the Atlantic for 4 years (1912) when that stage coach was robbed.
If you want to see a great (if also absurdly violent and bloody) Western about the dying days of the wild west, check out Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969). Excellent movie, set in 1913.
Fffffff, that’s like a movie set in 1974 released today.