Scientific Detective Monthly was a pulp magazine published by Hugo Gernsback, first appearing in January 1930. It was intended to focus on detective and mystery stories with a scientific element, but there were also one or two science fiction stories in every issue. The title was changed to Amazing Detective Tales with the June 1930 issue, perhaps to avoid the word "scientific", which may have given readers the impression of "a sort of scientific periodical", in Gernsback's words, rather than a magazine intended to entertain. At the same time, the editor—Hector Grey—was replaced by David Lasser, who was already editing Gernsback's other science fiction magazines. The title change apparently did not make the magazine a success, and Gernsback closed it down in October after releasing 10 issues. He sold the title to publisher Wallace Bamber, who produced at least five more issues in 1931 under the title Amazing Detective Stories.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1855:
American adventurer William Walker and a group of mercenaries sailed from San Francisco to conquer Nicaragua. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_%28filibuster%29
1939:
Subhas Chandra Bose formed the All India Forward Bloc of the Indian National Congress in opposition to Gandhi's tactics of nonviolence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Forward_Bloc
1971:
Erich Honecker was elected First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1990. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Honecker
1999:
A Doppler on Wheels team measured the fastest winds recorded on Earth (301 ±20 mph, or 484 ±32 km/h) in a tornado near Bridge Creek, Oklahoma, U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Bridge_Creek%E2%80%93Moore_tornado
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Betteridge's law: (journalism) An adage stating that any headline ending in a question mark can be correctly answered by the word "no". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. --Niccolò Machiavelli https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli