Follow Your Blixt – April 20, 2024
Interesting stuff happening or happened today. Not an exhaustive list. Definite liberal truth bias. by Janice L Blixt Volkswagen workers made history last night in Chattanooga, as they voted in a landslide to join the United Auto Workers Union (UAW). Despite pressure...
Follow Your Blixt – April 21-22, 2024
Interesting stuff happening or happened today. Not an exhaustive list. Definite liberal truth bias. by Janice L Blixt April 21, 2024 Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 22 people. Royal Parks Police, in charge of Richmond Park in west...
12 Apostles – A Short Story of Verona
12 Apostoli “Do you think because you are virtuous, that there shall be no more cakes and ale?” - Twelfth Night, Act II Scene ii Verona, Italy 8 December 1328 One of the favourite haunts of the Rakehells was a tavern with exquisite fare known as La Pentola – ‘The...
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Romeo & Juliet: The Death Of Benvolio
If you wanted to throw a wrench into my theory about the cause of the Capulet-Montague feud in Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, one needs only point out that in the earliest version, Lady Montague does not, in fact, have the final death in the play. Benvolio does....
Nellie Bly’s World – NELLIE BLY AT THE RACES!
Nellie Bly at the Races The New York World/July 8, 1894 The Women Enthusiasts Who Are Regular Visitors at the Big Tracks Every Day of the Season. How They Make Bets—Backing Horses on a System and as Well Posted on Jockeys and Records as Any of the Men—Scenes in the...
Nellie Bly’s World – GIRLS OF THE WILD WEST
Girls of the Wild West Sunday, July 8, 1888 Nellie Bly Goes Down And Makes Friends With The Riders The Lassies of the Show Are Just Like Nice Girls Everywhere—Miss Hickok Has a Bridle Made from Hair Taken from Scalped Indians—How They Learned to Ride and Shoot Out...
Nellie Bly’s World – HOW TO BE CURED BY FAITH
How to be Cured by Faith Sunday, July 1, 1888 Nellie Bly Has Some Experience With A “Mind Healer.” No Woman Is Really Ill, She Only Thinks She Is—Even Beauty Can Be Had for the Thinking—As for a Stomach, the Faith Curers Will Take That Away Entirely—A Queer...
Nellie Bly’s World – NELLIE BLY AND MR. LEXOW – Police Reform!
Nellie Bly and Mr. Lexow The New York World/July 1, 1894 The Chairman of the Senate Investigating Committee Answers Some Very Interesting Questions More Exposures To Come What Mr. Lexow Believes Will Be the Ultimate Result of the Revelations of Corruption The Excise...
Nellie Bly’s World – SOME LADIES WHO FENCE
New York World - Sunday, March 11, 1888 Nellie Bly Takes a Hand at Foils and Likes the Exercise It Looks Very Easy, But Isn’t—Women Cleverer Than Men Are—Anybody Can Learn to be Graceful at It—How Members of the Fencers’ Club Dress—Teachers Say That the Practice Is...
Nellie Bly’s World – NELLIE BLY ON THE STAGE
New York World -Sunday, March 4, 1888 She Wears a Scant Costume and Marches With the Amazons It Isn’t Very Hard to Get Such a Job—The Girls Earn $5 a Week—Tights that Did Not Fit—Dressing in a Crowded Room—How She Behaved on the Stage—A Bad Beginning. I made my début...
Nellie Bly’s World – IN THE MAGDALEN’S HOME
New York World - Sunday, February 12, 1888 Nellie Bly’s Visit to an Institution for Unfortunate Women A Wicked Girl’s Chances for Reformation—How Poor Creatures Abuse a Noble Charity—Matron Burr’s Experiences—The Girl Who Befriended an Unlucky Cat—The Toboggan Slide...
Nellie Bly’s World – WORKING GIRLS, BEWARE
New York World - Sunday, February 3, 1889 Nellie Bly Exposes A Snare For Swindling Poor Women. A Contemptible Scheme To Rob Needy Girls Who Seek Employment. Heartless Women Who Promise to Find Work for Scarf-Makers and Lure Them Into Their Clutches—Demanding Pay for...
Nellie Bly’s World – THE VEILED PROPHETESS
This story was the basis for scenes in Nellie Bly's seventh novel, IN LOVE WITH A STRANGER, on sale now! New York World - Sunday, January 20, 1889 Nellie Bly Has Her Fortune Told by a Mysterious Witch. A Very Secretive Woman Who Imposes Upon the Superstitious, But...
