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The idea of paying a man to physically run down the street dragging you in a two-wheeled wooden cart didn't exist until the late 1800s. It was a massive hit…
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Wagons were so unspeakably uncomfortable that pioneers preferred their own two feet. Instead of riding in the back, travelers would gladly walk thousands of…
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Paranoia heavily ruled the day, as elite travelers built hidden, velvet-lined compartments directly into their wooden carriages, desperately hiding their…
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Sexism was so overwhelmingly rampant that aspiring female pilots literally had to cross oceans. Pioneers like Bessie Coleman were forced to learn in France…
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Originating in nineteenth-century Japan, this involved a man running barefoot through the dirt dragging a cart with a seated aristocrat. It was brutally…
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Social hierarchy was delightfully literal. The wealthy paid a premium to sit safely inside the wooden box, while the poor were strapped to the absolute…
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