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1. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
25th January 1890
American journalist Nellie Bly completed a circumnavigation of the globe, inspired by Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, in a then-record 72 days.
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 into fact for the first time. A year later, at 9:40 a.m. on November 14, 1889, and with two days' notice,[15] she boarded the Augusta Victoria, a steamer of the Hamburg America Line,and began her 24,899-mile journey.
She took with her the dress she was wearing, a sturdy overcoat, several changes of underwear, and a small travel bag carrying her toiletry essentials. She carried most of her money (£200 in English bank notes and gold, as well as some American currency) in a bag tied around her neck.
The New York newspaper Cosmopolitan sponsored its own reporter, Elizabeth Bisland, to beat the time of both Phileas Fogg and Bly. Bisland would travel the opposite way around the world. To sustain interest in the story, the World organized a "Nellie Bly Guessing Match" in which readers were asked to estimate Bly's arrival time to the second, with the Grand Prize consisting at first of a free trip to Europe and, later on, spending money for the trip.
During her travels around the world, Bly went through England, France (where she met Jules Verne in Amiens), Brindisi, the Suez Canal, Colombo (Ceylon), the Straits Settlements of Penang and Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan. The development of efficient submarine cable networks and the electric telegraph allowed Bly to send short progress reports, although longer dispatches had to travel by regular post and thus were often delayed by several weeks.
Bly travelled using steamships and the existing railroad systems,[23] which caused occasional setbacks, particularly on the Asian leg of her race. During these stops, she visited a leper colony in China and, in Singapore, she bought a monkey.
As a result of rough weather on her Pacific crossing, she arrived in San Francisco on the White Star Line ship RMS Oceanic on January 21, two days behind schedule. However, after World owner Pulitzer chartered a private train to bring her home, she arrived back in New Jersey on January 25, 1890, at 3:51 p.m.
Just over seventy-two days after her departure from Hoboken, Bly was back in New York. She had circumnavigated the globe, traveling alone for almost the entire journey. Bisland was, at the time, still crossing the Atlantic, only to arrive in New York four and a half days later. She also had missed a connection and had had to board a slow, old ship (the Bothnia) in the place of a fast ship (Etruria). Bly's journey was a world record, although it was bettered a few months later by George Francis Train, who completed the journey in 67 days. By 1913, Andre Jaeger-Schmidt, Henry Frederick, and John Henry Mears had improved on the record, the latter completing the journey in fewer than 36 days.
2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
Housework
Meditation
Me Time
Missus Time
Twitter Followers = 2,074 (up 4)
Non-followed eliminated = 0
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Unfollowers eliminated = 0
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New Followers followed back = 2
@BigGoodJohn, @daasulee
Spammers not followed back =2
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3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
Daughter is currently subjecting her mother to the "cold-shoulder" treatment, such is her narcissistic vindictiveness to inflict psychological warfare on a mother who is defenceless, mentally ill and whose only desire is to love her. I fear I find Daughter truly disgusting. However, there is also a certain dark glee on my part - these periods never last long enough! There's nothing I want more than for this truly vile woman to keep her distance. I shall make the most of it while it lasts. My new policy of confiscating Missus phone during quality times is working well, making me feel in control and able to defend my borders.
As you have probably gathered I am no pacifist and no Buddhist! I do however embrace the Nondualist philosophy underpinning Buddhism, and cherrypick from many other philosophies to formulate my own. My main divergence from mainstream spirituality is to reject the concept of love underpinning the universe. Instead I believe UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS underpins the universe, and generates an exact 50/50 mix of positive and negative energies. This makes it far simpler to square belief with daily reality.
I am consequently tribal, individualist and selectively generous. I reject utterly the concept of pacifism and loving your enemies as being as foolish as zebras loving lions. I wish my life to be completely free of hypocrisy and contradiction, which generate internal disunity, and therefore embrace fully the Yin-Yang light-dark positive-negative reality of existence.
4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Does your belief agree with your experience?
5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Moon:
Weathertrack:
Air Pressure: 1015 millibars and static
6. TODAY'S ONELINER
You know that tingly little feeling you get when you like someone? That's your common sense leaving your body. :D
7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Jimmy Carr on relationships
8. TRIVIA
Keep moving forward, even one or two steps, in your own way. Those who live out their lives to the fullest, unperturbed by the noisy clamor around them, are the true winners.
9. ZEN WISDOM
Keep moving forward, even one or two steps, in your own way. Those who live out their lives to the fullest, unperturbed by the noisy clamor around them, are the true winners.
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