News and notes from around the interweb:
- Sky Hub
- Very cool.
I have just discovered Orbis (https://t.co/w1NkVsjaKS), a free resource that estimates how long a journey might have taken in the Roman Empire. You can choose season, modes of transportation, priority (speed, economy etc); it also estimates costs & difficulty. I am SPEECHLESS. pic.twitter.com/Nr0ersh1Mu
— Jessica M. Dalton (@jessicamdalt) May 25, 2021
- Two men, 1 with explosives, arrested after Holiday Inn Express standoff
- The U.S. will allow people with American passports that expired in 2021 to return on those passports, rather than waiting for renewal (childrens’ 5 year passprots are not eligible).
- Anti-microbial power outlets for planes
- TSA screener signing bonus
Been studying passenger manifests for immigrants to the U.S. during the period between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. At that time, New Orleans was the second-busiest port after New York. Immigrants from Le Havre, France and Liverpool, England (the two busiest ports to the U.S. at that time) to New Orleans took about 8 weeks to make the passage. This did not change significantly until the advent of steamship travel post-Civil War.
During that time, passengers in steerage (the vast majority) provided their own bedding and food. They were limited to one piece of luggage (usually a trunk) that they marked themselves. More than one trunk was extra. The master of the vessel provided an assigned place to sleep, drinking water, a place to cook meals, and a place to wash one’s self and clothing, and for bodily waste elimination.
Contrast this with coach (steerage) travel to and from Europe on an airplane today.
Great site thanks. I once read that the seat a typical non-business class passenger has on a Trans-Atlantic airliner is about the same size as the space allotted to a slave on the Middle Passage. Granted you’re not sitting there chained for weeks, but it is something to think about.