“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” – Herman Melville
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“Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds—everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.” – E.B. White
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“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent van Gogh
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“Illusion is the first of all pleasures.” – Voltaire
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“Summer is the annual permission slip to do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars.” – Regina Brett
Jun 27, 2025
122 years ago today, the starting pistol rang out for the first Tour de France, the most prestigious cycling competition today. Set up and sponsored by the newspaper L'Auto, ancestor of the current daily, L'Équipe, it ran from the 1st to 19th of July in six stages over 2,428 km (1,509 miles) and was won by Maurice Garin. Of the three Grand Tours of European cycling, with the other being the Giro d'Italia, and the Vuelta a España, the Tour de France had by far the longest stages. READ how the first event went... (1903)
