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The woman who cycled around the globe

Annie Londonderry showed what freedom of will was all about

An image in the public domain shows a cabinet card of Annie Kopchovsky, better known as Annie Londonderry, who set out in her early 20s to bicycle around the world. Kopchovsky, a Latvian immigrant who in June 1894, at about age 23, cycled away from her Boston home, leaving a husband and three small children, for a journey around the world that came to symbolize women’s independence. She died of a stroke on Nov. 11, 1947.

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