The most thrilling transportation in the world
The 21st century saw the revolution in the transport industry as customers only needed one click to get what they wanted. However, in history so far has witnessed quite interesting, thrilling and scary transfers.
Fly thousands of miles just to eat . sandwiches
Elvis Presley is the brightest star in the world of music in the name of 'Rock and Roll King' , not only that, he is also very generous and willing to pay because he has donated many expensive watches, houses and many times. Car money for others. Elvis also has a hobby of buying anything he likes, especially food. He likes the best peanut butter and sandwiches at Colorado Mine Company restaurant in Denver, Colorado.
On the evening of February 1, 1976, Elvis was sitting chatting with two police officers, Jerry Kennedy and Ron Pietrafeso in Colorado, about a sandwich called Fool Gold - made from peanut butter and cold meats from Gold Mine Company. . He decided to eat this food and invited his two friends to private airplanes flying over 1,093 miles to Denver just to satisfy their taste. They arrived in Denver at 1:40 am, where the shop owner waited with 22 sandwiches and champagne. After the meal, Elvis immediately flew to Graceland in Memphis. Each serving of Fool Gold sandwiches includes crust, peanut butter, grape jam and cold meat.
Dead bodies were moved for 20 years
Eva Peron is a very famous feminist in Argentina and around the world for her struggles for the rights of women and the poor. The woman who used to be an actress proved to be very influential in the political arena and admired by the people. During her husband's second election, Juan Peron became president, she was also nominated as vice president but later failed to find herself suffering from cancer. She died at 33 years old. However, it was not until 20 years after her body was buried after moving through many places.
After his wife died, Juan Peron planned to build her a tomb but unfortunately he was couped by the army and fled to Spain. Eva's body remained in Argentina in the hands of the military. They feared that if the burial of Eva was buried, people's hearts would change, so she placed her body in a wooden casket and carried it all over Buenos Aires. Later, they transferred Eva to Germany, then Italy and buried her under her real name Maria Maggi.
In 1971, Juan Peron agreed with the army to return to Argentina. His new wife Isabel keeps Eva's body in the castle and she often lies in the coffin to feel Eva's energy. Juan Peron then came to power again in 1973 but it was not until 1974 that Eva rested in the Recoletta Cemetery in Buenos Aires.
Transfer pizza by unmanned aircraft
Dodo pizza in Russia is famous for its pizzas that are always hot because they are transported by . unmanned aircraft. Combined with Copter Express, Dodo pizza has delivered pizza by plane to locations such as beaches, universities and parks. Then the employees will use the ipad to check if the cake has arrived.
The man sent himself
Henry Brown was once a slave in Virginia. He had only one wish to live a free life. In March 1849, Brown asked a local salesperson to pack himself into a wooden box for $ 86. The box was then sent to a abolitionist James Miller McKim in Philadelphia.
Carrying only water and biscuits, Henry passed the 27-hour journey by steam ship, car, train to McKim's house. Here with the Fugitive law on the return of government slaves, Henry was able to return to England. Later he returned to America and was famous for his story.
Lost $ 45,000 to move the piano
Paul McCartney is the famous bassist in The Beatles. He is famous for the Hofner. The instrument followed him during the band's performances until the 1963. By 1987 he decided to 'retire' his guitar and pass it on to a friend of his, John Hammel at New York to fix it. The instrument flew from England to New York at a 'heavenly' cost of $ 45,000 with the criteria for absolute safety for the instrument.
Huge rock
In 2012, artist Michael Heizer composed a work of art called Levitated Mass - a giant stone weighing 340 tons, 6.6 meters high. This rock is kept in LosAngeles County Museum and is built between two walls so visitors can walk below and watch the rock. Before being taken to the museum, the rock was composed in a valley in the Riverside area, CA was 136.8 km from Los Angeles. One had to use a 176-wheel truck at 10 mph to move the rock within 11 days. This rock is considered to be the largest mass human object ever transported since ancient times.
The corpse is first class
In 2007, Paul Trinder was sitting in the first class of British Airways from New Delhi, India to London, England. He fell asleep on the plane and when a crew came to wake him, he found himself sitting next to a woman. He asked the attendant about the woman and was shocked when they said she was dead.
The woman died in the cabin but then the crew moved her to first class because there were more vacancies there. In a statement, British Airways said about 10 people died each year in flights and they had to preserve such bodies to ensure safety and avoid flight chaos.
Expression of the cornea
DHL Express has received many strange packages in 2013 and includes a package that includes . an eye.
However, Alan Cassels, manager of the DHL branch in Kenya, said the eyes are transported very often for corneal transplantation purposes. He said that because of the short time of preservation, the company had to do its best to deliver goods to the surgery. To ensure the eyes are still in use, the efforts of its employees and drivers are needed.
The book lost 6283 miles
A book seller on The Consumerist website reported to the US Postal Service that he had sent a book to a buyer in Davis, California, which was only two miles from his home but the recipient did not receive the book.
Although it was stamped with a courier courier, the book still had to "circumnavigate" more than 6,000 miles through Sacramento, Springfield and bell Garden before reaching the recipient after a week.
Last flight of spaceships
After 25 space exploration with a distance of 123 million miles, the Endeavor was retired in 2012. A Boeing 747 was used to transfer the ship to Los Angeles, via Hollywood and the bridge. The famous Golden Gate before landing at LAX airport in Los Angeles. Later, the ship that had been orbiting around 4,700 times this time was attached to a 160-wheel truck system and transferred to the California Science Museum. On the way, people had to take down the big trees to block the train's path. Many Americans have gone out to welcome the ship to complete the mission when it passes. Currently, the ship is on display at the California Science Museum.
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