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My ★★ review of Around the World in Eighty Days on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/6xK2S7

A man called George Francis Train may have been Verne’s inspiration as he had travelled around the world in 80 days for real in 1870. He’d even done some of the things Fogg did, such as hiring a private train and being imprisoned. Train once said, "Verne stole my thunder. I'm Phileas Fogg."

10 things you might not know about Around the World in 80 Days:

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/01/30-january-around-world-in-80-days.html

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#OnThisDay, 25 Jan 1890, American journalist Nellie Bly arrives back in New York to huge crowds, becoming the first *person* to circumnavigate the world in under 80 days (she took 72).

Bly was the pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochran, one of the most famous 'stunt' reporters of the time. She'd previously had herself committed to an insane asylum for working class women in order to report on how women were being treated.

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I went to a community #BoardGame night on Friday and got to play #WorldsFair and #AroundTheWorldIn80Days with some good friends. I was having a hard week and it really picked me up.

I have to remember that almost every time that I feel spent and don't think that I want to hang out around the game table with friends, that I am probably wrong and should just try it.

Rarely am I disappointed. I came away in better shape than when I arrived.