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Germany’s other Oktoberfest, in Stuttgart, home of Mercedes-Benz and Porsche

Dirndls and lederhosen at the Stuttgart Oktoberfest

The Canstatter Volksfest in Stuttgart is a smaller version of Munich’s gigantic Oktoberfest, although the suds-fueled merry-making is just as raucuous. When some 5,000 people get together in a tent with mountains of food, rivers of foamy brews and a band encouraging sing-a-longs, it is just [...]

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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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