Wandering Adventure Party

49 years ago today"New Rose", is the first single by British punk rock group the Damned and the first single by a British punk group, released on this day in 1976 on Stiff Records #punk #punks #punkrock #newrose #thedamned #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Front cover to Flatland (1884) by Edwin Abbott Abbott, who died #onthisday in 1926. Read Ian Stewart's introduction to the strange tale of A. Square's geometric adventures, the first ever book that could be described as “mathematical fiction” https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/aspiring-to-a-higher-plane #otd

51 years ago ️The Ramones made their drummer Joey Ramone the band's lead singer on July 20, 1974. The rest is historyThis image shows Jeffery Hyman (aka Joey Ramone) playing drums for The Intruders, 1967#punk #punks #punkrock #ramones #history #punkrockhistory #otd

#OnThisDay, 21 June 1913, Georgia 'Tiny' Broadwick becomes the first woman to parachute from an airplane. She goes on to complete the first known premeditated freefall by anyone at all whilst training WW1 pilots on how to jump from planes.Read more, and see one of her parachutes, at the Air and Space Museum.https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/georgia-%E2%80%9Ctiny%E2%80%9D-broadwicks-parachute #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #HistoryofFlight #Histodons