• Robert Bray (forest ranger Corey Stuart in CBS's Lassie), turned down a role in director Joshua Logan's 1958 hit film South Pacific, much to Bray's longstanding regret?
• Alice Greenough Orr became a rodeo star after she found her preferred job of forest ranger largely unavailable to women during the era after World War I?

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Bicycle

• Adolphe Clément, an orphan who had been apprenticed to a blacksmith, rose to become a leading French manufacturer of bicycles, pneumatic tyres, motorcycles, automobiles, aeroplanes and airships (example pictured)?
• camber thrust contributes to the ability of bicycles and motorcycles to negotiate a turn with the same radius as automobiles but with a smaller steering angle?
• Quality Bicycle Products is the largest distributor of bicycle parts and accessories in the bicycle industry, with revenues of $150 million in 2008?
• Riley started as a bicycle manufacturer in Coventry in 1890, and produced its last motorcar in 1969?
• an electronic gear-shifting system for bicycles can shift faster than a traditional mechanical system and calibrate itself to minimize maintenance?
• the Italian automaker Autobianchi was founded by the bicycle manufacturer Bianchi, tire giant Pirelli and Fiat?
• the United States has a numerical system of bicycle routes (similar to the system for roads and highways), which hasn't been expanded since its creation in 1982?
• the Virginia Capital Trail connects three historic capitals of Virginia (Williamsburg, Jamestown and Richmond) with a 54-mile (87 km) long paved bicycle and pedestrian trail?
• the chief suspect in the 1919 Green Bicycle Case tried to destroy the bicycle that tied him to the victim, but was nonetheless acquitted?