Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...guide was founded by Karl Baedeker, a book-dealer's son from Essen, Germany, who in 1827 published a thin booklet on the best ways & means of traveling along the Rhine. For the rest of his life, Baedeker traveled about Europe, by bicycle, on horseback and by coach, notebook in hand, eyes peeled for grandeur to praise or bedbugs to warn against. In time, Karl and his sons, who took over the business, were assisted by legions of conscientious observers combining the qualities of master spies and bons 'vivants. By the eve of World War II, the Karl...