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Statue of Nellie Bly unveiled at Pittsburgh International Airport

Statue of Nellie Bly unveiled at Pittsburgh International Airport
Statue of Nellie Bly unveiled at Pittsburgh International Airport 00:28

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- The next time you arrive at Pittsburgh International Airport, a new face will greet you alongside Franco Harris and George Washington.

The airport unveiled a statue of Nellie Bly on Thursday.

The barrier-breaking journalist was born in Armstrong County in 1864.

Bly moved to Pittsburgh and got a job as a writer with the Pittsburgh Dispatch.

She exposed deplorable conditions inside asylums for the mentally ill and set a record by traveling around the world in 72 days. 

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