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Wooden dandy horse (around 1820), a patent-infringing copy of the first two-wheeler Original Laufmaschine of 1817 made to measure.. The dandy horse, an English nickname for what was first called a Laufmaschine ("running machine" in German), then a vélocipède or draisienne (in French and then English), and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, [1] or swiftwalker, [2] is a human-powered ...
Robert F. Hall Catholic Secondary School (frequently referred to as Hall or abbreviated as RFH) is a Catholic school located in Caledon East, Ontario, Canada.The school was named after Robert Francis (Bobby Soxer) Hall (1925–1989), the first lay person after whom a Catholic secondary school has been named in the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board.
This was the world's first balance bicycle and quickly became popular in both the United Kingdom and France, where it was sometimes called a draisine (German and English), draisienne (French), a vélocipède (French), a swiftwalker, a dandy horse (as it was very popular among dandies) or a Hobby horse. It was made entirely of wood and metal and ...
George Bryan "Beau" Brummell (7 June 1778 – 30 March 1840) [1] was an important figure in Regency England, and for many years he was the arbiter of British men's fashion.At one time, he was a close friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV, but after the two quarrelled and Brummell got into debt, he had to take refuge in France.
English: Robert F. Hall Catholic Secondary School (catholic school in Caledon, Ontario, Canada) Wikidata has entry Robert F. Hall Catholic Secondary School (Q7344178) with data related to this item.
Lallement left France in July 1865 for the United States, settling in Ansonia, Connecticut, where he built and demonstrated an improved version of his bicycle.With James Carroll of New Haven as his financer, he filed the earliest and only American patent application for the pedal-bicycle in April 1866, and the patent was awarded on November 20, 1866. [5]
The Caledon Equestrian Park is a current equestrian facility in Caledon, Ontario, Canada and was used for the 2015 Pan American Games. The facility's renovations were completed in 2014, one year before the games start. [1] The stadium is planned to have 4,000 seats. [2]
Caledon (/ ˈ k æ l ə d ə n /; 2021 population 76,581) is a town in the Regional Municipality of Peel in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada.The name comes from a shortened form of Caledonia, the Roman name for what is now Scotland. [6]