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Today's featured article Cover of the May 1911 edition Munsey's Magazine was an American magazine founded by Frank Munsey in 1889. Originally launched in 1889 as Munsey's Weekly, it became an illustrated monthly in 1891, printing both fiction and non-fiction. In 1893 the price was reduced from 25 to 10 cents and circulation rose to more than 250,000 issues. The same year Munsey became one of the first publishers to regularly feature a pretty girl on the cover. Circulation was also helped by the liberal use of illustrations, and reached a peak of about 700,000 in 1897, declining in the 1910s. Well-known writers appeared, including O. Henry, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, P. G. Wodehouse, and Joseph Conrad. In 1929 it was merged with Argosy, another of Munsey's magazines. Magazine historians consider Munsey's to have started a revolution in magazine publishing by setting a low price to increase circulation, and attracting sufficient advertising revenue to make a substantial profit. Other magazines quickly followed the example of Munsey's. (Full article...) Recently featured: Saving Private Ryan Double sovereign 550 Madison Avenue Today's featured picture Picture of the day Dimitri Art credit: Philippe Chaperon; restored by Adam Cuerden Archive More featured pictures Did you know... Painting of an empty chair by Kefah Ali Deeb ... that Syrian artist Kefah Ali Deeb painted an empty chair (pictured) as her vision of victims and refugees? ... that three of the four Richmond Theatres were destroyed by fire, of which the 1811 fire was described as "early America's first great disaster"? ... that Claude Hamilton Verity, a grandson of Doncaster mayor Charles Verity, was an early pioneer of the synchronisation of sound with silent films? ... that one of the "plushest" nightclubs in northern Florida turned into studios for a TV station in Jacksonville? ... that Left Socialist-Revolutionary leader Maria Spiridonova addressed her party's fourth congress in October 1918 by letter as she was in jail? ... that KT Leveston, the 254th pick in the 2024 NFL draft, is from U.S. area code 254? ... that many people with heart failure, diabetes, or ME/CFS cannot raise their heart rates sufficiently during exercise? ... that within years of Aza Arnold inventing a device to improve cotton roving, it was plagiarized across the United States and Europe? ... that Aurora Gaming's roster for Apex Legends is made up of Fire Beavers?

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