* 1887: In Nellie Bly's Ten Days in a Mad-House she references the Bruce's night of watching the spider and her own attempts in staying awake.

A woodcut image of Nellie Bly's homecoming reception in Jersey City printed in Frank Leslie's Weekly | Frank Leslie's Illustrated News on 8 Feb 1890.

** Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days

In 1887, he recruited the famous investigative journalist Nellie Bly.

** Ten Days in a Mad-House, and other early investigative reports by Nellie Bly

American investigative journalist Nellie Bly feigned symptoms of mental illness to gain admission to a lunatic asylum in 1887 and report on the terrible conditions therein.

Reporter Nellie Bly became one of America's first investigative journalists, often working undercover.

The Evening Journal was home to famed investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who began writing for the paper in 1914 as a war correspondent from the battlefields of World War I. Bly eventually returned to the United States and was given her own column that she wrote right up until her death in 1922.

Robert Livingston Seaman ( 1822 – March 11, 1904 ) was an American millionaire industrialist who was the husband of investigative journalist Elizabeth Cochran ( better known as Nellie Bly ), whom he married in 1895 in Chicago.

From 1880 to 1887 native of nearby Cochran's Mills, Nellie Bly worked for the Dispatch writing investigative articles on female factory workers, and later reported from Mexico as a foreign correspondent.

Nellie went on with her house work -- until I found Julia dead.

Orwell needed somewhere he could concentrate on writing his book, and once again help was provided by Aunt Nellie, who was living at Wallington, Hertfordshire in a very small sixteenth-century cottage called the " Stores ".

* Around the World with the Yellow Kid-a strip that sent the Kid on a world tour in the manner of Nellie Bly ( 17 January-30 May 1897 )

The first production of the opera actually produced by the Royal Opera House itself premiered on 1 July 1899 with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Zélie de Lussan as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Mario Ancona as Marcello.

The Metropolitan Opera staged the work for the first time on 26 December 1900 with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Annita Occhiolini-Rizzini as Musetta, Albert Saléza as Rodolfo, Giuseppe Campanari as Marcello, and Luigi Mancinelli conducting.

She appeared on Broadway in South Pacific, opening on April 7, 1949 as nurse Nellie Forbush.

A bronze statue of Stratton by Nellie Walker was placed on the grounds of his estate in 1909.

On 24 September 1861, Crown Princess Victoria introduced her brother Albert Edward to Alexandra at Speyer, but it was not until almost a year later on 9 September 1862 ( after his affair with Nellie Clifden and the death of his father ) that Albert Edward proposed to Alexandra at the Royal Castle of Laeken, the home of his great-uncle, King Leopold I of Belgium.

Nellie Davis Tayloe was born near Amazonia, in Andrew County, Missouri ( now part of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area ) to James Wynn Tayloe, a native of Stewart County, Tennessee, and his wife, Elizabeth Blair Green, who owned a plantation on the Missouri River.

Nellie was sent on a trip to Europe in 1896 by two of her brothers.

Nellie Tayloe Ross refused to campaign, but easily won the race on November 4, 1924.

After Blackadder, Robinson became the narrator and one of the lead actors for the British animated series Nellie the Elephant, based on a song of the same name.

* Nellie Lutcher put it on the R & B charts in 1948.

Executive members included Máire Ní Chinnéide, Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh ( who wrote pamphlets on behalf of the League ), Bean an Doc Uí Choisdealbha, Máire Ní hAodáin, Máire de Buitléir, Nellie O ' Brien, Eibhlín Ní Dhonnabháin and Eibhlín Nic Néill.

In 2007, she sang " Beecharmer " with Nellie McKay on McKay's Pretty Little Head album, and " Letters To Michael " with Dionne Warwick.

She was born Nellie Walker in Chicago, Illinois, on April 13, 1891, the daughter of Marie Hanson, a Danish immigrant, and Peter Walker, a West Indian man of predominantly African descent from Saint Croix, who soon disappeared from her life.

Nellie took her stepfather's surname, sometimes using versions spelled as Nellye Larson, Nellie Larsen and, finally, settling on Nella Larsen.

The city includes one elementary school ( Rancho Mirage Elementary ) that is part of the Palm Springs Unified School District, the newly renovated Nellie Coffman Middle School on the city line with Cathedral City and two private schools: Marywood-Palm Valley and Xavier College Preparatory High School.

* Edwin Way Teale ( 1899 – 1980 ), American naturalist and author, lived on a farm in rural Hampton with his wife Nellie from 1959 until his death in 1980.

That same year, he dispatched Elizabeth Bisland on a race around the world against Nellie Bly to try to draw some attention.

Mark Twain, Nellie Melba, Laurence Olivier and Barry Humphries have all performed on this historic stage.

* Little Nellie Kelly London production opened at the New Oxford Theatre on July 2 and ran for 265 performances

* Little Nellie Kelly Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on November 13 and ran for 276 performances

** Women's all-around champion: Nellie Kim, USSR

* Celebrating Women's Achievements — Nellie Letitia ( Mooney ) McClung

Major artistes who appeared with the society during this time included Paderewski, Hubert Parry, Nellie Melba, and Clara Butt.

* In 1981 Linda Purl appeared as Bly in a made for TV movie called The Adventures of Nellie Bly.

In Australia, its first authorised production opened on 22 May 1886 at the Theatre Royal, Melbourne, produced by J. C. Williamson, starring Frank Thornton, Nellie Stewart and Alice Barnett, conducted by Alfred Cellier, although unauthorised productions had appeared by 1879.

* This film appeared on a Christmas compilation video released in the UK called The Biggest Ever Christmas Video along with Huxley Pig, Nellie the Elephant, The Care Bears, Mr Men, SuperTed, Paddington Bear, Babar and three other Christmas films.

Randy Stuart appeared eleven times in the 1959-1960 season in the role of Nellie Cashman.

In that month he appeared at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in a charity matinee for the Actors ' Benevolent Fund with Toole's company and such contemporary stars as Rutland Barrington, Lionel Brough, Arthur Cecil, Nellie Farren, George Grossmith, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry.

She made her film debut in Cheers for Miss Bishop and appeared in many Warner Bros. films, including Eyes in the Night, Yankee Doodle Dandy playing Nellie Cohan opposite James Cagney, This Is The Army playing the wife of George Murphy and the mother of Ronald Reagan, Rhapsody in Blue and Nora Prentiss.