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Annie Londonderry, a Jewish immigrant born in 1870, is known for undertaking a long-distance bicycle journey around the world in the late 19th century. Born Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, she lived in Boston as a member of a family that had migrated from Eastern Europe to the United States. Her journey between 1894 and 1895 received extensive coverage in the press of the time and established her public identity as the “first woman to circumnavigate the globe by bicycle.” During her journey, she did not