Famous Fantastic Mysteries was an American science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine published from 1939 to 1953, edited by Mary Gnaedinger. It was launched by the Munsey Company to reprint stories from their magazines, including Argosy. Frequently reprinted authors included George Allan England, A. Merritt, and Austin Hall. The artwork, including some of the best work of Virgil Finlay and Lawrence Stevens, contributed to the success of the magazine. In late 1942 Popular Publications acquired the title from Munsey, and Famous Fantastic Mysteries stopped reprinting short stories from the earlier magazines. It continued to reprint longer works, including titles by G. K. Chesterton, H. G. Wells, and H. Rider Haggard. Original short fiction also began to appear, including Arthur C. Clarke's "Guardian Angel", which later formed the first section of his novel Childhood's End. In 1951 the publishers experimented briefly with a large digest format, but returned quickly to the original pulp layout.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1738:
By royal decree, Philip V of Spain established the Real Academia de la Historia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Academia_de_la_Historia
1915:
World War I: French aviator Roland Garros landed his aircraft behind enemy lines and was taken prisoner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Georges_Garros
1938:
Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, made his debut in Action Comics #1, the first true superhero comic book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman
1958:
Controversial American poet Ezra Pound was released from St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he had been incarcerated for twelve years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound
1996:
Israeli forces shelled Qana, Lebanon, during Operation Grapes of Wrath, killing at least 100 civilians and injuring more than 110 others at a UN compound. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qana_massacre
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tit for tat: (idiomatic) Equivalent retribution; an act of returning exactly what one gets; an eye for an eye. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tit_for_tat
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Cultural and civilizational diversity challenges the Western and particularly American belief in the universal relevance of Western culture. … Normatively the Western universalist belief posits that people throughout the world should embrace Western values, institutions, and culture because they embody the highest, most enlightened, most liberal, most rational, most modern, and most civilized thinking of humankind. In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous. --Samuel P. Huntington https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_P._Huntington
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