December 14, 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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November 2, 2023 4 Comments
Modern attitudes about travel have changed since the era of grand hotels and splendid room accommodations that may have included champaign and chocolates. People are in a hurry to do everything – even sleep! They check-in after dark and are gone before dawn. Hotels like these in Richmond, Virginia, are being dubbed dinosaur farms.