Bicycle

First Bicycle was used by women, belonging to upper classes. These women could flee away from their houses and get rid of the long skirts and their corsairs, which restricted their ability to move. Women, who won freedom of movement, had ended their dependence on their husbands. This freedom also led to social and political independence to them.

According to Susan B. Anthony, a U.S. women's rights advocate, "There is nothing else, nor anyone else, that helps for achieving equal rights for the world." "Whenever I see a woman on the wheels, I stand up and rejoice. The bike gives freedom and self-confidence to women. Susan's friend, Elizabeth Stanton, said," We are pedaling towards the right to vote. "

After World War I, bicycles began to meet the working class. The bike "fell to the ground". Just as women do, workers have begun to make new discoveries by abandoning the poor villaiers they are living. They could go on their work with their bikes, become better at hiring better job opportunities and enjoy 8 hours of leisure time and save money.

According to Horst Groschopp's article, "Cyclist workers were relieved of public transportation and of course the costs. The bike, more importantly, increased the chances of the workers on the job market. They were able to work in factories farther away from their homes, looking for workers and paying higher wages. "

"It's filled with cyclist workers who can quickly get to the farthest factories with their bikes and circulate their banners and leaflets."

In this period, some companies have attempted to ban the use of bicycles. Some doctors, like Philippe Tissie, have made some warnings that the bicycle may cause abortion and infertility. Some other doctors have argued that this indecent device, encourages immorality and women who enjoy cyclling, stimulates their sexual organs and enjoy it. In the Islamic world, Bicycle has long been known as the "Devil's Toy".

The truth was, women and workers could flee away from their homes and can taste the dangerous freedom.

*Quotations: Evrensel.Net, Eduardo Galeano, Ekşi Sözlük

More Than What She Looked Like

"Round the World in 80 Days"s author Jules Verne, maybe because of the concern on his book's fame, did not believe that this young and beautiful woman could not travel around the world alone and  in less than eighty days .But the woman, 1889 in the morning began her trip, fully finished her journey in 72 days 6 hours 11 minutes. She wrote and shared what she had seen. 


Nellie Bly was more miraculous than what she looked like. She adopted different identities to make news. She had persuaded the mental hospital council that she was mentally ill and she got into a mental hospital. Only in this way she could reveal the methods of mental treatments. This journalistic style in America, was to shift attention .She became a legend in the history of journalism. She exaggerated to behave like a mexican and the Mexican government expelled her from the country.

She got into a rubbery and got into the jail so as to make news on prisons. 

She got into a Factory as a worker, so she could write about it workers. 

Nellie was 20 years old yet and journalism was a men's work. In the ages, she had started a columnist on the newspaper. 

30 years later, In the first world war, she had danced with the bullets and published her last articles. 

Resources: Wikipedia, Walking Words-Eduardo Galeano, Ekşisözlük

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

She died because of brain cancer in 1932 in New York. Defended the right of women to vote, was accompanied by the establishment of juvenile courts and a soup kitchen for the miners' families. Since 1894, she began to live in Denver. She had 2 children, she was married to Joseph Brown. In July 1867, in the town of Hannibal, Missouri, was born into a family of Irish descent.  

But already in 1912 miraculously survived in the Titanic disaster and was born for the second time. Inside the sixth barge, before Titanic has sinked she had persuaded the crew to go back and save the lives of others. Nobody knows if some had been rescued or not. Her friends had called her as Maggie in her life but after her death, she had been recognized as "The Unsinkable Molly Brown", among many others.

A Temple For The Mind

"Wikipedia is something special. Such as a library or a public park. As a place for all of us to go to think and learn ..."

"Wikipedia is founded in 15 January of 2001, as a  nonprofit Internet encyclopedia, which is prepared jointly by many languages, free, independent and ad-free.  

Co-founder Jimmy Wales, defined Wikipedia as "An occupation for every human being on Earth  to create and distribute a free encyclopedia in their own language, on highest quality"

Every topic in Wikipedia has been written by the standart of GNU which every author forsakes its copyrights. And also other authors can edit and develop the related topic. Every post in Wikipedia gets into the public domain. 

All Wikipedias are available on 284 languages. There are nearly 18 million topics in total.   

In 2006, in the United States on a court,  Wikipedia has used as a reference. Canadian Parliament presented Wikipedia Article about marriage between same sex people, as a document for Legal Marriage Law. Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has cited Turkish Wikipedia on a statement about headscarf.

Wikipedia works like an open source software. Writers constantly develops it. Because of this,this miraculous system, that works like a temple, assumed to be never completed in time. 

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It is Circling!

Galileo Galilei Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher.

He has suspected both the Aristotle stream as well as the Bible in the middle ages. 

He had been famous of his works on astronomy. He has learned the invention of the telescope in the Netherlands in 1609 and the following year he developed a superior one. Made observations those no one has  made before. He has discoverd the surface of the moon, the spots of the sun and the moons of Jupiter.

When 22 Years old, published the book "The Little Balance"  

Falling Bodies was one of the charming of his works. In those times, Experimental conditions couldn't allow to  theorise, however Galileo theorised that objects such as leaves, fall to the ground slower as the reason of its broad surface and the friction of the air. Much later, vacuum experiments would be confirming him.  

In contrast to what Vatican said, he has accepted the heliocentric theory of the universe. His view has made  all the arguments of the church  upside down. Because in the the holy book , Joshua ordered the sun not to move. The Vatican had judjed Galileo for 2 times. In 1614 he has been banned and forbidden not to teach to anyone. In 1632 the Inquisition had judged him because of a book he wrote and was sentenced to death by execution. Galileo said  "I did not see , I did not hear, and I do not know," and he has chosen the life then his sentence turned into a house arrest. 

Galileo made a miracle effect. Persuasiveness of the church started to be questioned. Galileo had became a symbol of the clash of science and religion in history. 

Galileo has been defined as the ancestor of "modern observational astronomy, "modern physics," "modern science ". According to Stephen Hawking, Galileo, has probably contributed more than anyone else to the birth of modern science.

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Rope A Dope!

Heavyweight boxing champion of all times! Muhammad Ali has won the gold medal in the lightweight division in 1960 in Rome. Became famous after receiving the gold medal at the Olympics in Rome attended by the age of 18.  

1964, at age 22, he became the World Champion. After this victory he has changed his religion and accepted Islam. Between 1967 and 1970 he had to intervene his beloved boxing.  

In 1971, Ali lost for the first time in his career in professional boxing to Joe Frazier in the 'Fight of the Century" . Then, is defeated by Ken Norton, many people except him and his relatives thought his career is over. But he repeatedly worked hard and got his title again. He defeated Ken Norton as a revenge. 

In his Professional carrier, he lost only 5 times. Olympic and World Champion Muhammad Ali, has managed to become the only name for all winners until the age of 36, and won the 56 matches, 37 as knock-outs. 

Miracle Ali was not just a boxer. He always tried to do better not only in his boxing career but also in his personality.  

After 1960 Rome Olympics, he went to a restaurant and learned that only whites are served. As a protest of this situation, he threw his Gold Medal into the Ohio River.  

He did not go to war in Vietnam: "I was training in the hall. A TV reporter asked: 'Do not you go to Vietnam to join the army?'  I replied, '' I Ain't got no quarrel with the VietCong...No VietCong ever called me nigger'

Bertrand Russell told to Ali: 'Congratulations. Champions usually are puppets of the  power. You are not.Your refusal to join occupation army is admirable.'

Miracle Ali, "on behalf of all the oppressed, fought against all oppressors." 

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The Man Who Beautifies Everything that He Touches

He left nothing to play from 4-year-old until he finished the primary school. His way of playing guitar has been influenced by Jimi Hendrix. He would recognise later that the music he made in his youth, in Elazig, was just only jazz when he saw the modern world later. In Ankara and Munich he had studied physics. He decided to go on his music career  and he returned to Istanbul. In State Conservatory he studied music theory. He got rid of the frets of guitar in 1976. He had played many kind of instruments like ud, e-bow, fretless guitar, classical guitar, electric guitar etc.

"Human has a chance to get the success when he has a life in  harmony with the nature" he said. 

"Can a man capture the slience with his own music? He gave a yes answer to the question.
"I cannot compose cheerful music; since whatever I do, the sadness of being human comes out." he said. 

Claimed that slience is also a music: " I have understood that everything, when resounds, has a vibration and energy. Because of this, every entity can be described by music. Let's say,there is no voice of something, because we cannot hear but It has a voice. Then the one with no sound and the  one with sound are all equal. Therefore, slience would also be a type of music. 

In one of his concerts, that I also joined, after a enthusiastic applause; he was so ashamed that his face turned into red. Yet at the same concert "any moment is not similar to any other moment.  Therefore playing the same music over and over again, gives us a great pleasure." Miraculously, his music has attracted a various composition of audience. 

Eksiklik Kendi Özümde (Deficiency in My Essence)

Açlığa Doymak (Repletion to Hunger)