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#OTD in 1859, Wilkie Collins’s novel, The Woman in White, begins serialization in the magazine "All the Year Round". This magazine was edited by Charles Dickens.

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Nancy Drew and the secret of the old contract Nancy Drew’s first four mysteries enter the public domain pretty soon. Once ghostwritten under “Carolyn Keene,” a rights dispute revealed Mildred Wirt Benson as the original author—surprising Harriet Adams, who thought her dead. By John Mark Ockerbloom

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Nancy Drew and the secret of the old contract

Nancy Drew’s first four mystery stories join the public domain in 37 days. She’s now the star of a multimedia franchise, and subject of...

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The copyright and the public good Ross’s 1930 The Right and the Good introduced an ethics of balancing intuitive “prima facie” duties rather than strict rules or outcomes. In 38 days, it enters the U.S. public domain for free reuse. By John Mark Ockerbloom

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The copyright and the public good

W. D. Ross was already known for his scholarly editions of Aristotle when he published his own lasting contribution to philosophy in 1930. The Righ...

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‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side With daft jokes and experimental wordplay, the first comprehensive translations of his lesser-known stories show Anton Chekhov in a new light By Viv Groskop

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‘He was just trying to earn a few kopecks’: how newly translated stories reveal Chekhov’s silly side

With daft jokes and experimental wordplay, the first comprehensive translations of his lesser-known stories show Anton Chekhov in a new light

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“The great American novel, and not a word in it- no music, too” Milt Gross, famed for 1920s comic satire, tackled the wordless novel in 1930. He Done Her Wrong playfully parodied Lynd Ward’s somber style, swapping moody woodcuts for a far sillier, comic storyline. By John Mark Ockerbloom

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“The great American novel, and not a word in it- no music, too”

Milt Gross was well known to many newspaper readers in the 1920s, with comics like Banana Oil and Nize Baby that skewered hypocrisy and reveled in ...

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Scientists found the key to accurate Maya eclipse tables Eclipse tables in the Dresden Codex were based on lunar tables and adjusted for slippage over time. by Jennifer Ouellette

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Scientists found the key to accurate Maya eclipse tables

Eclipse tables in the Dresden Codex were based on lunar tables and adjusted for slippage over time.

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#OTD In 1858, Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf was born. "She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. In 1914, she was the first woman to be granted a membership of the Swedish Academy"