¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo!
It's Cinco de Mayo! I shall celebrate in the traditional U.S. way - I shall eat lots of, in this case Mexican, food.
It's also Nellie Bly's birthday!
She was awesome. She was a serious reporter when women at newspapers were expected to write on gardening and fashion - she wrote on the plight of the poor and the hardships of women forced into divorce; she pioneered investigative reporting, arranging to be committed to an insane asylum in order to report on conditions there; she went 'round the world in 72 days, beating Phileas Fogg's (fictional) record by eight days; and she was the first woman war correspondent, during World War I. Oh, she also patented a milk can of her own design, and was, for a while, the leading woman industrialist in the world.
Yeah, that Nellie Bly.
She spent six months in Mexico - it started as a vacation, but ended when she wrote a scathing report on the Mexican president's imprisonment of a journalist who criticized the government. Her report (pretty predictably) got her in trouble, and, threatened with arrest, she came back to the U.S. So, I shall celebrate Nellie Bly's birthday with...er, lots of Mexican food.
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It's also Nellie Bly's birthday!
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She was awesome. She was a serious reporter when women at newspapers were expected to write on gardening and fashion - she wrote on the plight of the poor and the hardships of women forced into divorce; she pioneered investigative reporting, arranging to be committed to an insane asylum in order to report on conditions there; she went 'round the world in 72 days, beating Phileas Fogg's (fictional) record by eight days; and she was the first woman war correspondent, during World War I. Oh, she also patented a milk can of her own design, and was, for a while, the leading woman industrialist in the world.
Yeah, that Nellie Bly.
She spent six months in Mexico - it started as a vacation, but ended when she wrote a scathing report on the Mexican president's imprisonment of a journalist who criticized the government. Her report (pretty predictably) got her in trouble, and, threatened with arrest, she came back to the U.S. So, I shall celebrate Nellie Bly's birthday with...er, lots of Mexican food.
Links!
- May 5, 1816: The Examiner publishes John Keats' first poem: I love Keats. You can read his poetry online. It's beautiful.
- Why the Smart Reading Device of the Future May Be … Paper: I happen to be in the group that thinks the two technologies (digital and print) are both awesome. I prefer "fun" reading digitally (they're easier to carry around on my Nook), but I want "serious" books in print - nothing kills my "let's do research" mood faster than trying to navigate passages digitally.
- Mystery Of How The Egyptians Moved Pyramid Stones Solved: Also, it turns out, they left notes showing how, and...well, we're not very good at reading them?
- Bioengineers Build Circuit Board Modeled On The Human Brain : Neat!
- Giant Galaxy Expels Star Cluster: Did they get an eviction notice first?
- How The Cliven Bundy Saga Exposes America's Most Enduring Myth: "Cliven Bundy tore up his grazing permit in 1992 because he disagreed with its terms. Since that time he has grazed his cattle with no permit on government lands. This makes him worse than a 'moocher' – it makes him a trespasser, on property that every one of us owns in common." Wait - can we evict Bundy, then?
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