Gallery
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A skiing Sami woman or a goddess. Olaus Magnus (1555)|
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Advertisement for ski race in La Porte, California (1869)
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Theodor von Lerch, an Austrian major, teaching skiing to Japanese army as the first experience to Japan at Jōetsu, Niigata on 12 January 1911.
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Skiing in Scandinavia, 1767
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The Böksta Runestone is believed to depict the Viking god Ullr with his skis and his bow
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The 1903 rendition of medieval Russian soldiers' use of skis to facilitate their movement during winter campaigns.
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The Norse goddess Skaði hunts in the mountains on skis in an illustration (1901) by H. L. M.
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Kiandra "Snow Shoe" (Skiing) Carnival, New South Wales, Australia, in 1900.
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Wolf hunting on skis
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“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
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