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  • Tuffi und die Schwebebahn

    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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Past Article

Hy Mariampolski
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The most popular entertainment of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century was Vaudeville. The acts were mostly light comedy, acrobatic, musical, and sometimes silly, but everyone loved it and had their favorites. Today postcards are about all we have as memories.

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