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More reasons to visit Indianapolis than Super Bowl XLVI and Indy 500

Indianapolis has a lot more to offer than the football and car racing.  Sure, it’s world famous as the site of the Indianapolis 500, and getting worldwide attention as the site of Super Bowl XLVI between the New York Giants and New England Patriots, but that’s just for starters.

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Happy 125th Birthday to the Automobile, Born Aug. 26, 1885

Gottlieb Daimler 1885 patent design for 'riding car'

The automobile was born on August 26, 1885.  That is the day Gottlieb Daimler filed a patent for his ‘riding car’, the world’s first vehicle with an internal combustion engine.  The world would never be the same, and 125 years later, engineers and designers are still tinkering with the size, power and performance of the cars we drive and ride.  Daimler put a motor on a two-wheel vehicle, so purists might say this is the first motorized bicycle or the first motorcycle, not the first car.  Let’s not quibble.  This was the start of motorized personal mobility.

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Remembering Dennis Hopper, Taos, Easy Rider, Hippies and Harleys

Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper, two of the stars of the iconic 1969 "Easy Rider" film, in March 2010

In May 2009, exactly one year before Dennis Hopper passed away from the ravages of cancer, he was in Taos, New Mexico, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the movie “Easy Rider”, where much [...]

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