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 Snookered rated 11 months ago- From the page: "On November 14, 1889, 118 years ago today, Nellie Bly, an intrepid reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, set off to circle the world faster than Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days. No one had ever tried such a thing. "...
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- barnowlbros rated 11 months ago
- Around the World in 72 Days
- Snookered rated 11 months ago
- From the page: "On November 14, 1889, 118 years ago today, Nellie Bly, an intrepid reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, set off to circle the world faster than Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days. No one had ever tried such a thing. "I wish I was at the other end of the earth!" she later recalled thinking. "And why not?" the thought came: "I need a vacation; why not take a trip around the world?"
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