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Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days in 1889.

In 1888, Bly suggested to her editor at the New York World that she take a trip around the world, attempting to turn the fictional Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) into fact for the first time. A year later, at 9:40 a.m. on November 14, 1889, and with two days' notice, she boarded the Augusta Victoria and began her 24,898 mile journey. via @wikipedia

Cover of the 1890 board game Round the World with Nellie Bly
Illustration of Elizabeth Cochrane, aka Nelly Bly, in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1890. Caption reads: "Around the world in seventy-two days and six hours - reception of Nellie Bly at Jersey City on the completion of her journey." Includes two vignettes (inset) titled: "Presenting the Globe-Girdler a Golden Globe" and "The Arrival in Philadelphia."

Prohíben 16 libros de Stephen King en Estados Unidos en “la peor ola de censura de la década”: “Debo estar haciendo algo bien”, afirma el autor

Más de 300 títulos fueron retirados de las bibliotecas escolares de Florida, estado que triplicó la prohibición en dos años

Otros autores vetados son Margaret Atwood, Aldous Huxley, John Grisham, Joyce Carol Oates y Stieg Larsson

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picks of the day:

➡️ @gutenberg_org (main) & @gutenberg_new (bot posting latest additions) - Huge digital library, distributing public domain books online

➡️ @bookwyrm - Fediverse alternative to Goodreads, track books, write reviews, discover readers etc

➡️ @internetarchive - Massive online archive of printed & other media

➡️ @DProofreaders - Volunteer project turning public domain books into eBooks

➡️ @inventaire - Free open platform for cataloguing physical book collections

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"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
The Devil's Disciple

Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, and socialist propagandist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 George Bernard Shaw died in 1950. He wrote more than 60 plays, including major works such as Man and Superman, Pygmalion & Saint Joan. via @wikipedia

Books by Bernard Shaw at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/467

Title cover of Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw.
Shaw in 1911, by Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Una monja poseída por 22.000 espíritus: la leyenda que ha publicado el Archivo Histórico por Halloween que sorprende a todos

Con motivo de la celebración de Halloween, la institución ha compartido un manuscrito del siglo XVII que desvela la escalofriante escena que presenció el fraile Pedro Berlanga

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https://www.elconfidencial.com/cultura/2023-10-31/monja-poseida-22000-espiritu-leyenda-halloween_3765458/

in 1938. Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, which caused some listeners to believe that a Martian invasion was in fact occurring, resulting in a massive panic in some of the audience in the US.

The novel even influenced the work of scientists. Robert H. Goddard was inspired by the book, and helped develop both the liquid-fuelled rocket & multistage rocket. via @Wikipedia

The War of the Worlds @ PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/36

First edition cover of the novel "The War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells.
Martian fighting machines in the Thames Valley. https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/fr100076.html

in 1675. Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus representing an elongated S, from the Latin word summa, and the d used for differentials ({\frac {dy}{dx}}), from the Latin word differentia.

Leibniz expressed the inverse relation of integration and differentiation, later called the fundamental theorem of calculus, by means of a figure in his 1693 paper Supplementum geometriae dimensoriae.... via @wikipedia

Christoph Bernhard Francke - Bildnis des Philosophen Leibniz (ca. 1695).

"The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand."
Impressions and Opinions

English philosopher George Edward Moore died in 1958. Together with B. Russell, L. Wittgenstein & earlier G. Frege was among the initiators of analytic philosophy. He & Russell began deemphasizing the idealism & became known for advocating common-sense concepts & contributing to ethics, epistemology and metaphysics. @wikipedia

G.E. Moore at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/45722

G.E. Moore Ray Strachey, born Rachel Pearsall Conn Costelloe (4 June 1887 London – 16 July 1940) .
Scan de la page de titre du Principia Ethica de G. E. Moore (1903).

"There's no one thing that's true. It's all true."

The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published in 1940.

In 1941, the Pulitzer Prize committee for letters unanimously recommended For Whom the Bell Tolls be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for that year. However, Nicholas M. Butler, found the novel offensive & persuaded the board to reverse its determination; no Pulitzer was given for the category of novel that year. via @wikipedia

A cropped image of Ernest Hemingway's 1923 passport photograph.

"In the struggle my sympathies were not neutral. But in telling the story of those great day I have tried to see events with the eye of a conscientious reporter, interested insetting down the truth."
10 Days That Shook the World

American author John Reed died in 1920. He is best known for his coverage of the October Revolution in Petrograd, Russia, which he wrote about in his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World. via @wikipedia

John Reed:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1109

John Reed.
Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed.

'El viaje de Shuna', una joya de Miyazaki inédita en España desde hace 40 años y que llega ahora de mano de Salamandra Graphic

Una maravilla que presagiaba sus grandes obras posteriores y que ha ganado un Premio Eisner

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