Home fitness is all the rage! And that means the Fernie Museum Historical Spa and Fitness Centre is bringing back the original functional exercise doohickey: the Indian Club! Yes, this oddly-shaped piece of wood has been keeping fitness buffs like Persian soldiers, Sikh strongmen and Queen Victoria in fighting shape for hundreds of years. It’s time to get physical!
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Techno drum loops 128 bpm
By DJFroyd
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Workhouse Inmates
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Pancras_QE2_142.jpg
Various authors for Cassell & Co. / Public domain
Typewriter Advertisement
Source: Clotho98/ Flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/clotho98/3863141946/in/photostream/
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Indian Wrestler
Paratha Sarathi Sahana / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India_wrestling_akhara_training.jpg
“No really, You are Not Going to Regret This
Francis Hayman / Public domain
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British Army c. 1900
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Sokoljan2 / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
After Thomas Lawrence / Public domain
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Donald Dinnie
Unidentified photographer / Public domain
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milwaukee_Gymnasium_1869.jpg
photo: unknown; file: James Steakley / Public domain
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photo: unknownscan: James Steakley / Public domain
Ipswich Indian Club team
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Unknown author / Public domain
Club swinger, no. 1 / Indian club swinger / Early Edison camera tests / Newark athlete
William K. L. Dickson / Public domain- Cropped at beginning and End
Source: Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov/item/00694134/
Queen Victoria
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Queen_Victoria,_c.1870._(7936242480).jpg
National Media Museum from UK / No restrictions
Bowen Gymnastics Club Swinging
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See page for author / Public domain
https://compass.fivecolleges.edu/object/mtholyoke:29402
Suffragettes with tartan sashes
LSE Library / No restrictions
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Suffragettes_with_tartan_sashes,_c.1908._(22302489623).jpg
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Punch cartoon-Suffragette
Arthur Wallis Mills / Public domain
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