Bertha Von Hillern was an amazingly fast speed and endurance walker. In the 1870s, America went crazy, and crowds of thousands gathered to see this pedestrienne compete strategically.

Path dependencies occur when the response to a turning point event or treatment is contingent upon the individual's developmental history.

The velocity of flowing waters is very far from being in proportion to the quantity of declivity in their bed: […] .

Not only out of the mouths of babes and sucklings, but out of the mouths of fools and cheats, we may often get our truest lessons.