On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly set off on her race around the world in an attempt to beat the "record" set in Jules Verne's fictional book, "Around the World in 80 Days." People from around the ...

Bly." For six months, Nellie knocked on the doors of New York ... Perhaps the peak of Bly's fame came when she took a whirlwind trip around the world in 1889 to beat Phileas Fogg, the fictional ...

Nellie Bly refused those fluffy assignments ... Bly decided to conquer the world. Around the World in 72 days Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in Eighty Days, first published in 1873 ...

Travel around the world with a modern-day Nellie Bly to discover how exchange rates can affect your power to buy in different countries. Watch as she uses the exchange rate in each country to work ...