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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everyone. Technically you're getting two days in History today
because we were running two episodes from the History Vault.
You'll also here two hosts, me and Tracy V. Wilson.
Hope you enjoy Welcome to This Day in History Class
from how Stuff Works dot Com and from the desk
of Stuff you Missed in History Class. It's the show
where we explore the past one day at a time
(00:20):
with a quick look at what happened today in history. Hello,
and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson and
its septem The Boeing seven seven debut on this day
in and it was huge at the time. It was
the world's largest jet. It was so big that Boeing
(00:40):
had to build a new factory in Everett, Washington just
to be able to build the thing. It was so
big that airports had to redesign their terminals to accommodate
the planes themselves and their passengers. The seven seven could
carry more than twice as many passengers as the Boeing
seven oh seven, and that made the per passenger price
tag for the airline about half as much as on
(01:02):
other aircraft, at least if the flight was completely full.
But it also meant that the airports needed more passenger
accommodations to go along with it. All those things that
support the coming and going of aircraft, from refueling tankers
to catering trucks had to be updated too, and the
pilots had to learn how to fly this gigantic aircraft.
(01:23):
The training program involved a model of the cockpit that
was on stilts on a truck that moved around so
that pilots could simulate what it was like to be
so far off the ground during takeoff and landing and taxiing.
It took a team of fifty thousand people sixteen months
to design and build the seven forty seven. The first
(01:44):
flight took place on February nine of nineteen sixty nine,
and the first commercial passenger flight was on January of
nineteen seventy. This was a pan Am flight from New
York to London. The first hijacking of a seven forty
seven was that same year, on augu third of nineteen
seventy on a flight from New York City to San Juan,
(02:04):
when a passenger pulled out a gun and said he
wanted to go to Cuba. The plane did go to Cuba.
It was met there by Fidel Castro. When it landed,
the three sixty passengers and nineteen crew aboard were unharmed,
although they did arrive in San Juan after it was
all over, about seven hours behind schedule. There are still
(02:25):
a lot of seven forty seven's in use around the world,
although the last flight of a seven forty seven by
a United States carrier was on January. A lot, but
not all, of the seven forty seven still making flights
are used for cargo rather than for passengers. Modified seven
forty sevens have also served as the US presidential aircraft
(02:46):
known as Air Force one, and as the shuttle carrier
aircraft during the Space Shuttle program. The seven forty seven
was originally designed to work as a cargo plane because
Boeing really thought that passenger aircraft were going to go
the way of supersonic flight. They thought that they needed
to future proof their sub sonic aircraft, so they needed
(03:07):
to make the seven forty seven to be able to
load and unload huge amounts of cargo as a matter
of future proofing. This focus on cargo loading is also
why the seven forty seven has a humped design. At
the top, the cockpit is up above the main deck
with a space behind the cockpit that was originally a
passenger lounge, but during the fuel crisis of the nineteen seventies,
(03:29):
on most flights it was converted to additional passenger seating.
This arrangement of the flight deck up above the main
deck with the space behind it was so that the
nose of the plane could be on a hinge to
be opened up for cargo loading. Some of the seven
forty seven is no longer in service, have been scrapped,
hundreds are in airplane graveyards, and about fifty have been
(03:52):
written off after crashes or some kind of other irreparable damage.
The first one ever assembled still exists there. It's at
the Museum of Flight in Seattle, where it underwent a
two year restoration process that ended in It had been
sitting out there at the museum for quite some time
and was in need of a lot of both cosmetic
(04:13):
and structural refurbishing. Thanks to Eves Jeff Cope for her
research work on today's episode, into Tari Harrison for all
of her audio work on this podcast. You can subscribe
to This Day in History Class on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts,
and wherever else you get your podcasts, you can tune
in tomorrow for the establishment of a nation. Welcome to
(04:40):
this Day in History class, where we bring you a
new tipbit from history every day. The day was September
twelve oh seven. Persian poet and scholar to law up
(05:00):
Dean Rumi, better known simply as Rumi, was born in
the Persian Empire. Some sources say his birthplace was Bach
in present day Afghanistan, and others say it was a
small town in modern day to Jakistan, Hageographical sources have
claimed that Rumi's father, Baja al de Willad, was descended
(05:21):
from the caliph Abu Bakar, but those claims have been rejected.
Rumi's father was a religious scholar, itinerant preacher, and Sufi teacher.
A Sufi is a Muslim mystic. The early thirteenth century
was a time of great conflict in that part of
the world. The Crusades were happening and the Mongols were
(05:41):
also a threat. When Rumi was young, his family moved
to sam Marcand, possibly because of the Mongols or political
instability where they lived. They soon moved farther west into
Anatolia or present day Turkey. When he was a teenager,
he married Galha Cartoon, with whom he had two children.
(06:03):
By twelve twenty nine, the Sultan of the Salt Jukes
had invited Rumi's father to teach theology in Konya, the
capital of the Sultanate of Room. The Salt Jukes were
a branch of the Okhu's Turks and a dynasty that
ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle East from
the eleventh to fourteenth centuries. They established the Salt Duke
(06:24):
Empire and the Sultanate of Room. But a couple of
years after the family moved to Konya, Rumi's father died.
Around twelve forty one. When his father's protege, borhar Ald
Mahakek died to Rumi took over as teacher. He assumed
leadership of the disciples, and he became an Islamic jurist.
(06:45):
An Islamic jurist or faki is a theologian with expertise
in Islamic jurisprudence and law. Roumi soon became friends with
religious scholar in mystic champs Aldin Tabrisi, who arrived in
Konya in twelve forty four. Sham's believed in unpretentious spirituality.
It was under the influence of Shams that Roomy turned
(07:07):
away from teaching and toward the path of ecstatic Roomy
began writing poetry, but a few years after the two met,
Shams disappeared. According to legend, Shams left because Roomy's students
were jealous of Shams and resentful of Roomy's new passion,
or they may have even had Shams killed. Whatever the
(07:29):
reason for shams Is disappearance, Roomy expressed his feelings of
loss and despair in his poetry and dance. Roomy transformed
into someone devoted to mystical writing and worship. Much of
his work at this time was expressed through the voice
of Shams, but it did not take long for him
to find his own voice and begin writing his most
(07:50):
memorable works, like mass Navvy or Spiritual Verses, a sixth
volume poem containing fables, tales, and reflections that illustrate the
Sufi doctor in He was inspired to write the work
by another mystic he was close to, who saw him
al Jane Chilebi throughout the last several years of his life.
Roomy dictated the poem to Hassam, who wrote it in Persian.
(08:14):
The poem is widely read in the Muslim world. People
have compared it to the Koran and recognized its religious
and literary significance. Rumi also wrote the Works of Shams
to Breeze, a collection of mystical poems. Generally, Rumi's poetry
focuses on the idea that God is absolute, ecstatic love,
(08:34):
and he questioned orthodoxy. Many of the poems were composed
to be sung at Sufi gathering. After his poems were translated,
people in the West associated him with a tolerant Islamic
spirituality and related to his focus on a direct connection
with God. As far as his prose goes, his sermons,
letters and lectures have been recorded. Rumi died in Konya
(08:59):
in twelve seventy three. His followers founded the med Levy Order,
a Sufi order, years after his death. The order is
also known as the Whirling Dervishes because they practiced whirling
as a form of thicker or devotion as a means
of attaining ecstatic experience. I'm Eve Jeff Code, and hopefully
you know a little more about history today than you
(09:21):
did yesterday. If you feel like correcting my pronunciation or
my accent on anything, that I've said in the show.
Feel free to leave a very kind comment on Twitter, Instagram,
or Facebook. At t C I HC podcast, we'll see
you tomorrow. For more podcasts for my Heart Radio, vis
(09:47):
the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you
listen to your favorite shows.
Hey everyone. Technically you're getting two days in History today
because we were running two episodes from the History Vault.
You'll also here two hosts, me and Tracy V. Wilson.
Hope you enjoy Welcome to This Day in History Class
from how Stuff Works dot Com and from the desk
of Stuff you Missed in History Class. It's the show
where we explore the past one day at a time
(00:20):
with a quick look at what happened today in history. Hello,
and welcome to the podcast. I'm Tracy V. Wilson and
its septem The Boeing seven seven debut on this day
in and it was huge at the time. It was
the world's largest jet. It was so big that Boeing
(00:40):
had to build a new factory in Everett, Washington just
to be able to build the thing. It was so
big that airports had to redesign their terminals to accommodate
the planes themselves and their passengers. The seven seven could
carry more than twice as many passengers as the Boeing
seven oh seven, and that made the per passenger price
tag for the airline about half as much as on
(01:02):
other aircraft, at least if the flight was completely full.
But it also meant that the airports needed more passenger
accommodations to go along with it. All those things that
support the coming and going of aircraft, from refueling tankers
to catering trucks had to be updated too, and the
pilots had to learn how to fly this gigantic aircraft.
(01:23):
The training program involved a model of the cockpit that
was on stilts on a truck that moved around so
that pilots could simulate what it was like to be
so far off the ground during takeoff and landing and taxiing.
It took a team of fifty thousand people sixteen months
to design and build the seven forty seven. The first
(01:44):
flight took place on February nine of nineteen sixty nine,
and the first commercial passenger flight was on January of
nineteen seventy. This was a pan Am flight from New
York to London. The first hijacking of a seven forty
seven was that same year, on augu third of nineteen
seventy on a flight from New York City to San Juan,
(02:04):
when a passenger pulled out a gun and said he
wanted to go to Cuba. The plane did go to Cuba.
It was met there by Fidel Castro. When it landed,
the three sixty passengers and nineteen crew aboard were unharmed,
although they did arrive in San Juan after it was
all over, about seven hours behind schedule. There are still
(02:25):
a lot of seven forty seven's in use around the world,
although the last flight of a seven forty seven by
a United States carrier was on January. A lot, but
not all, of the seven forty seven still making flights
are used for cargo rather than for passengers. Modified seven
forty sevens have also served as the US presidential aircraft
(02:46):
known as Air Force one, and as the shuttle carrier
aircraft during the Space Shuttle program. The seven forty seven
was originally designed to work as a cargo plane because
Boeing really thought that passenger aircraft were going to go
the way of supersonic flight. They thought that they needed
to future proof their sub sonic aircraft, so they needed
(03:07):
to make the seven forty seven to be able to
load and unload huge amounts of cargo as a matter
of future proofing. This focus on cargo loading is also
why the seven forty seven has a humped design. At
the top, the cockpit is up above the main deck
with a space behind the cockpit that was originally a
passenger lounge, but during the fuel crisis of the nineteen seventies,
(03:29):
on most flights it was converted to additional passenger seating.
This arrangement of the flight deck up above the main
deck with the space behind it was so that the
nose of the plane could be on a hinge to
be opened up for cargo loading. Some of the seven
forty seven is no longer in service, have been scrapped,
hundreds are in airplane graveyards, and about fifty have been
(03:52):
written off after crashes or some kind of other irreparable damage.
The first one ever assembled still exists there. It's at
the Museum of Flight in Seattle, where it underwent a
two year restoration process that ended in It had been
sitting out there at the museum for quite some time
and was in need of a lot of both cosmetic
(04:13):
and structural refurbishing. Thanks to Eves Jeff Cope for her
research work on today's episode, into Tari Harrison for all
of her audio work on this podcast. You can subscribe
to This Day in History Class on Apple podcasts, Google podcasts,
and wherever else you get your podcasts, you can tune
in tomorrow for the establishment of a nation. Welcome to
(04:40):
this Day in History class, where we bring you a
new tipbit from history every day. The day was September
twelve oh seven. Persian poet and scholar to law up
(05:00):
Dean Rumi, better known simply as Rumi, was born in
the Persian Empire. Some sources say his birthplace was Bach
in present day Afghanistan, and others say it was a
small town in modern day to Jakistan, Hageographical sources have
claimed that Rumi's father, Baja al de Willad, was descended
(05:21):
from the caliph Abu Bakar, but those claims have been rejected.
Rumi's father was a religious scholar, itinerant preacher, and Sufi teacher.
A Sufi is a Muslim mystic. The early thirteenth century
was a time of great conflict in that part of
the world. The Crusades were happening and the Mongols were
(05:41):
also a threat. When Rumi was young, his family moved
to sam Marcand, possibly because of the Mongols or political
instability where they lived. They soon moved farther west into
Anatolia or present day Turkey. When he was a teenager,
he married Galha Cartoon, with whom he had two children.
(06:03):
By twelve twenty nine, the Sultan of the Salt Jukes
had invited Rumi's father to teach theology in Konya, the
capital of the Sultanate of Room. The Salt Jukes were
a branch of the Okhu's Turks and a dynasty that
ruled parts of Central Asia and the Middle East from
the eleventh to fourteenth centuries. They established the Salt Duke
(06:24):
Empire and the Sultanate of Room. But a couple of
years after the family moved to Konya, Rumi's father died.
Around twelve forty one. When his father's protege, borhar Ald
Mahakek died to Rumi took over as teacher. He assumed
leadership of the disciples, and he became an Islamic jurist.
(06:45):
An Islamic jurist or faki is a theologian with expertise
in Islamic jurisprudence and law. Roumi soon became friends with
religious scholar in mystic champs Aldin Tabrisi, who arrived in
Konya in twelve forty four. Sham's believed in unpretentious spirituality.
It was under the influence of Shams that Roomy turned
(07:07):
away from teaching and toward the path of ecstatic Roomy
began writing poetry, but a few years after the two met,
Shams disappeared. According to legend, Shams left because Roomy's students
were jealous of Shams and resentful of Roomy's new passion,
or they may have even had Shams killed. Whatever the
(07:29):
reason for shams Is disappearance, Roomy expressed his feelings of
loss and despair in his poetry and dance. Roomy transformed
into someone devoted to mystical writing and worship. Much of
his work at this time was expressed through the voice
of Shams, but it did not take long for him
to find his own voice and begin writing his most
(07:50):
memorable works, like mass Navvy or Spiritual Verses, a sixth
volume poem containing fables, tales, and reflections that illustrate the
Sufi doctor in He was inspired to write the work
by another mystic he was close to, who saw him
al Jane Chilebi throughout the last several years of his life.
Roomy dictated the poem to Hassam, who wrote it in Persian.
(08:14):
The poem is widely read in the Muslim world. People
have compared it to the Koran and recognized its religious
and literary significance. Rumi also wrote the Works of Shams
to Breeze, a collection of mystical poems. Generally, Rumi's poetry
focuses on the idea that God is absolute, ecstatic love,
(08:34):
and he questioned orthodoxy. Many of the poems were composed
to be sung at Sufi gathering. After his poems were translated,
people in the West associated him with a tolerant Islamic
spirituality and related to his focus on a direct connection
with God. As far as his prose goes, his sermons,
letters and lectures have been recorded. Rumi died in Konya
(08:59):
in twelve seventy three. His followers founded the med Levy Order,
a Sufi order, years after his death. The order is
also known as the Whirling Dervishes because they practiced whirling
as a form of thicker or devotion as a means
of attaining ecstatic experience. I'm Eve Jeff Code, and hopefully
you know a little more about history today than you
(09:21):
did yesterday. If you feel like correcting my pronunciation or
my accent on anything, that I've said in the show.
Feel free to leave a very kind comment on Twitter, Instagram,
or Facebook. At t C I HC podcast, we'll see
you tomorrow. For more podcasts for my Heart Radio, vis
(09:47):
the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you
listen to your favorite shows.
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