July 26, 2024
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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January 12, 2022 16 Comments
Haussner’s “German-American” restaurant in Baltimore, Maryland, was both. William and Frances Haussner, immigrants to America, opened their restaurant in 1926 and soon began collecting art to display in their east Baltimore restaurant. Throughout the better parts of eight decades thousands of hungry art lovers came to dine and gaze at a masterpiece.