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Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, Nelly Bly Jr. Occupation. Businesswoman. Notable work. Circumnavigated the globe on a bicycle. Annie Cohen Kopchovsky (1870 – 11 November 1947), [ 1 ] known as Annie Londonderry, was a Jewish Latvian immigrant to the United States who in 1894–95 became the first woman to bicycle around the world.
Tillie Anderson (April 23, 1875 – April 29, 1965) was a road and track cyclist. Tillie, a Swedish immigrant and, from all accounts, an extremely strong-willed individual, outpaced the best of the best on the wheel, with times that are still impressive today. Born in Skåne, Sweden in 1875, Tillie emigrated to Chicago in 1891 at the age of 16.
Frances Xavier Cabrini MSC (Italian: Francesca Saverio Cabrini (birth name), July 15, 1850 – December 22, 1917), also known as Mother Cabrini, was an Italian-American, Roman Catholic, religious sister (nun). She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a religious institute that was a major support to her fellow Italian ...
The Healing of the Paralytic – one of the oldest known depictions of Jesus, [18] from the Syrian city of Dura Europos, dating from about 235. Initially Jesus was represented indirectly by pictogram symbols such as the ichthys (fish), the peacock, or an anchor (the Labarum or Chi-Rho was a later development).
Kristen Faulkner (born December 18, 1992) [1] is an American racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's Continental Team EF–Oatly–Cannondale. [4] [5] She is the reigning USA National Road Race Champion [6] and won two gold medals in the women's individual road race and women's track cycling team pursuit at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Mother Teresa's given name was Anjezë Gonxhe (or Gonxha) [8] Bojaxhiu (Anjezë is a cognate of Agnes; Gonxhe means "flower bud" in Albanian). [9] She was born on 26 August 1910 into a Kosovar Albanian family [10] [11] [12] in Skopje, Ottoman Empire (now the capital of North Macedonia). [13] [14] She was baptised in Skopje the day after her ...
The first verifiable claim for a practically used bicycle belongs to German Baron Karl von Drais Sauerbronn, a civil servant to the Grand Duke of Baden in Germany. Drais invented his Laufmaschine (German for "running machine") in 1817, that was called Draisine (English) or draisienne (French) by the press.
The name "Columbia" for America first appeared in 1738 [6] [7] in the weekly publication of the debates of Parliament in Edward Cave's The Gentleman's Magazine. Publication of parliamentary debates was technically illegal, so the debates were issued under the thin disguise of Reports of the Debates of the Senate of Lilliput and fictitious names ...