January 15, 2025
Tag: Althoff Circus
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Tuffi und die Schwebebahn
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The suspension monorail was invented in England in the 1820s. The distinction is small but the first suspended railway was opened on June 25, 1825, using a patent recorded by Henry Palmer. It was built to carry bricks, but as an opening stunt it carried passengers. Through the next 75 years several iterations of the…
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In any given year there are always four or five Fifth Sundays. These are the days when we examine postcards unrelated to most of what we collect, which makes them as unusual as fifth Sundays,