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No Such Thing As A Fish
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The Fear of Trains
I like so how frightened people are of new inventions and always have been in history. Like, the obvious fear of one had of trains, didn't they? So I think when Stevenson was trying to encourage investment in his whole railway idea, a lot of MPs were already against it. And doctors warned about things like bicycle hernia, bicycle, bicycle, cyclist neurosis, cyclist sore throat, and bicycle face.
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