Today’s Momentous Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), though she had lived a long and eventful life, was not ready to die. On her deathbed she declared:
“All of my possessions for a moment of time.”
Culled from:Weird Wills & Eccentric Last Wishes
More Hindenburg Ephemera
The ever-helpful Aimee sent me a fascinating missive after last night’s MFDJ which featured photographs of the Hindenburg and some Hindenburg memorabilia I photographed at the Air & Space Museum:
“Hi Comtesse, a little bird told me you got to see some Hindenburg artifacts recently. Lucky stiff.
“You’re of course familiar with the famous radio recording made by an announcer as the airship was coming in to land at Lakehurst. “Oh, the humanity!” The version you usually hear has him speaking very fast and shrill, to the point where the whole thing doesn’t sound quite authentic. Well, a little digging tells us that the original audio was recorded by Herbert Morrison and engineer Charlie Nelson of WLS in Chicago, intended for ‘delayed broadcast.’ It’s been theorized that Nelson’s equipment recorded about 3 percent slower than normal, so when played back at normal speed it sounds different from Morrison’s naturally deep voice. Here’s a clip where you can hear the usual version first and then the corrected one, adjusted for the slower speed of recording.”