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Old 02-26-2012, 08:11 AM   #15 (permalink)
Rokeby
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A fanciful and impractical play thing.

There is a long history of wind powered vehicles that are justifiably lost
in the dustbin of history.

Perhaps the most telling image is this one, now more than 370 years old:


Flora’s Wagon of Fools, (Hendrick Pot, 1640.)
A viciously satirical allegory for the 1630s Dutch Tulip Bubble, which is to say
foolishness run amok.

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