In September 1887, a young reporter calling herself Nellie Brown pretended to be insane and got herself committed to the women's asylum on Blackwell's Island in New York. What she found there made her famous. Two years later she set out to beat Phileas Fogg's fictional record around the world, not knowing that a rival had left the same morning in the opposite direction.

This is the story of Nellie Bly, the women she met behind the asylum walls, and the race that made her the most famous reporter in America.

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The late Roman Republic had survived reform, faction, and civil bloodshed, but Caesar's march across the Rubicon pushed it past the point of no return.

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In 1954, the CIA and MI6 dug a tunnel from West Berlin into the Soviet sector to tap military phone lines. It was one of the most audacious intelligence operations of the Cold War. There was just one problem - the KGB knew about it before the first shovel broke ground.

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