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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. After having completed her travel, albeit mostly by ship, she built a media career around engagement with popular conception of what it was ...
Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e]
This was the earliest form of a bicycle, without pedals. His first reported ride from Mannheim to the "Schwetzinger Relaishaus" (a coaching inn, located in "Rheinau", today a district of Mannheim) took place on 12 June 1817 using Baden's best road. Karl rode his bike; [4] it was a distance of about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi). The round trip took him ...
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Image credits: shawneffel Art imitates life. And if you look closely enough, art also is life.The photos from this list prove that there can be beauty in the most mundane and random moments if we ...
Ghost bike in Gray's Inn Road, London, 2005. A ghost bike (also referred to as a ghostcycle or WhiteCycle) is a bicycle roadside memorial, placed where a cyclist has been killed or severely injured, usually by the driver of a motor vehicle. [1] Apart from being a memorial, it is usually intended as a reminder to passing motorists to share the road.
Photos taken at the Tour of Tuscany are making their way around social media showing the Bogota Humana team wearing uniforms with flesh toned spandex around their waist, giving them the appearance ...
This caused the spokes of Uchida's bicycle to collapse, throwing him over the handlebar face-first, striking his face onto the ground. He died in hospital hours later. [ 212 ] [ 159 ] [ 213 ] By then, Uchida was the 48th cyclist to die in accidents in the history of professional keirin, also the 4th to die in a GI graded event.