American Flyer was a popular brand of toy train and model railroad in the United States in the middle part of the 20th century.
Read more about American Flyer: The Chicago Era, 1907–1938, A. C. Gilbert Company, 1938–1966, Lionel, 1979–present
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“... in every State there are more women who can read and write than the whole number of illiterate male voters; more white women who can read and write than all Negro voters; more American women who can read and write than all foreign voters.”
—National Woman Suffrage Association. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 13, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)