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October 1912 issue, containing the first Tarzan story

The All-Story Magazine was a pulp magazine founded in 1905 and published by Frank Munsey. The editor was Robert H. Davis. Munsey merged it with The Cavalier, another pulp, in May 1914, and the title changed to All-Story Cavalier Weekly for a year. In 1920 it was merged with Munsey's Argosy; the combined magazine was retitled Argosy All-Story Weekly. Well-known contributors included mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart and the Western writer Max Brand. The most famous was Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose first sale, Under the Moons of Mars, appeared in 1912, starting his Barsoom series set on Mars. The same year, All-Story printed his Tarzan of the Apes (issue pictured), and more Tarzan stories followed, along with another Burroughs series, about Pellucidar, a land inside the Earth. The debut of Zorro, the vigilante, was in All-Story in 1919, in Johnston McCulley's The Curse of Capistrano. The magazine was merged in 1929 into another, which soon focused on love stories and continued until 1955. (Full article...)

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Statuette on display at Saved Treasures of Gaza

... that the 2025 exhibition Saved Treasures of Gaza: 5000 Years of History featured a Hellenistic or Roman statuette (pictured) that was found by a fisherman?
... that the official poem of Massachusetts was written by a teacher to teach students about the state's history and symbols?
... that there is a common rule among members of Minna no Keizai Shimbun Network to cover happy news?
... that Nathaniel Tracy worked with George Washington and sailed with Thomas Jefferson?
... that the practical effects in Frankenstein's Army were inspired by John Carpenter's The Thing?
... that John de Welyngton was excommunicated before becoming the prior of Llanthony Priory?
... that Narses nearly lost the support of Heruli mercenaries for executing one of their captains because he killed one of his servants before the Battle of the Volturnus?
... that composer Júlia Hajdú once stated that her greatest source of pride was when other composers "stole" her work?
... that Kate Capshaw's portrait of her husband, Steven Spielberg, incorporates footage that he shot as a teenager?

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Ratko Mladić in 1993

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Enceladus imaged by the Cassini orbiter

1640 – Bishops' Wars: Scottish Covenanter forces led by Alexander Leslie defeated the English army near Newburn, England.
1789 – With the first use of his 1.2-metre (3.9 ft) telescope, then the largest in the world, William Herschel discovered a new moon of Saturn, later named Enceladus (pictured).
1909 – The 1909 Monterrey hurricane dissipated; one of the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclones on record, it killed an estimated 4,000 people throughout Mexico.
1963 – American civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the speech "I Have a Dream" during the March on Washington, calling for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
1993 – The NASA spacecraft Galileo flew by the asteroid 243 Ida and took photographs that later revealed the first known asteroid moon.

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Entrance to Buangkok MRT station

There are 146 Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) stations in operation in Singapore. The MRT is the country's principal mode of public transport. Owned by the Land Transport Authority, the system spans 246.6 kilometres (153.2 mi) and has six lines: the North–South Line (NSL), the East–West Line (EWL), the North East Line (NEL), the Circle Line (CCL), the Downtown Line (DTL), and the Thomson–East Coast Line (TEL). The MRT has two operators: SMRT Trains and SBS Transit. SMRT operates the NSL, EWL, CCL and TEL, while SBS operates the NEL and DTL. As of 2025, the MRT serves 3.49 million passengers per day. All MRT stations are wheelchair-accessible, and some are public civil defence shelters. Most NEL, CCL, DTL and TEL stations in operation, as well as two NSL stations, have public artworks as part of the Art in Transit programme. (Full list...)

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The Capitoline Wolf is a bronze sculpture depicting a scene from the legend of the founding of Rome, in which the mythical founders, Romulus and Remus, are suckled by a she-wolf. Long believed to be an Etruscan work of the 5th century BC, the work has more recently been dated by some scientific analyses to the Middle Ages, although its age remains disputed. The figures of the twins were added in the late 15th century, probably by Antonio del Pollaiuolo. The sculpture has been displayed since 1471 in the Palazzo dei Conservatori of the Capitoline Museums in Rome. The image of the wolf and twins has become one of the city's best-known symbols and has been reproduced in numerous statues worldwide.

Sculpture credit: unknown (wolf); Antonio del Pollaiuolo (twins); photographed by Wilfredor

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