To tone your thighs fast - three words ladies - squats and walking lunges. I took a fitness bootcamp for women last fall. We met three times a week and these two exercises were at the core of each meeting. My husband noticed a difference after week one.
Don Quijote de la Manca by the Spanish author Cervantes has such a role in the Western literary tradition, that it's hard to mention anything posterior to it as the first fiction novel. Jerry mentioned Moll Flanders. That's a nice pick: the very novel that combined literature of roguery and picaresque novel.
Establishment of the genre. Detective fiction in the English-speaking world is considered to have begun in 1841 with the publication of Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue itself, featuring the first fictional detective, the eccentric and brilliant C. Auguste Dupin.