A small selection of children attempting to spell the word 'velocipede' in Dear Santa letters from the 1880s/90s.
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A small selection of children attempting to spell the word 'velocipede' in Dear Santa letters from the 1880s/90s.
Some Finnish public libraries around Helsinki let people borrow much more than books. With a library card, you can check out things like drills, skis, ice skates, tennis rackets, heart-rate monitors, and musical instruments. One library even lets people borrow a cargo bicycle.
~ Yellow and Green ~
Photo by Vitaly Karpov (Crimea, 1984)
Winter view with bicycles.
By Matti Merilaid.
A rhyme about amputation to scare children into observing bike safety rules. Mother Goose safety rhymes. 1940.
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