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Argosy was an American magazine, founded by Frank Munsey in 1882 as a children's weekly. In 1896 it became the first pulp magazine, printing only fiction and using cheap pulp paper. Circulation rose and remained strong for decades, but fell to no more than 50,000 by 1942. Many famous writers appeared in Argosy, including O. Henry, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Robert E. Howard. It was sold in 1942 to Popular Publications and converted from pulp to slick format, and then to a men's magazine, carrying fiction and feature articles. Circulation soared to well over one million. From 1948 to 1958 it published a series by Gardner which examined the cases of dozens of convicts who maintained their innocence. It succeeded in overturning many of their convictions. In 1972 Popular sold the magazine to David Geller. He sold it to the Filipacchi Group in 1978, which closed it down at the end of the year. The title has been revived several times, most recently in 2016. (Full article...)

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Frere Hall is a building in Karachi, Pakistan, built in 1865 to serve as the city's town hall during British colonial rule in the Indian subcontinent. Named in 1884 in honour of Henry Bartle Frere, a British administrator who had earlier served as Commissioner of Sind and Governor of Bombay, the building is now a library and a tourist attraction noted for its Venetian Gothic architecture, and is also used for exhibitions and events.

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