Woman defies law by voting; then she is fined $100

November 5, 1872 – Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.

What Arthur Conan Doyle thought of Bombay

“Monsoon and swell and drifting rain in the Indian Ocean,” Arthur Conan Doyle exclaimed as the SS Naldera approached Bombay in October 1920. “We heard that ‘thresh of the deep sea rain’ of which Kipling sings. Then at last in the early morning the long quay of Bombay, and the wonderful crowd of men of every race who await an incoming steamer.”

These words of the creator of Sherlock Holmes appeared in a collection of essays titled The Wanderings of a Spiritualist. His visit to Bombay was a brief stopover on the way to Australia and New Zealand, where he was slated to give a series of talks on Spiritualism – the belief that the living can communicate with the dead through so-called mediums.

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