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Sadly, Poe's still-mysterious death happened just 10 days before this event he'd planned with Elmira Shelton |
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Mary Ann Mobley was Miss Mississippi before winning this national title |
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One study in this "Last Frontier" state showed that ravens have more than 30 distinct vocalizations |
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In 2006, brothers Jim & Dean Thomas helped catch a thief selling stolen Civil War letters on this auction website |
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Among the items found in this boy king's tomb were bows & arrows, toys, games & jewelry |
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We're rich! Oh, wait... it's only this, iron pyrite |
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Instead of happy hours, the Poe Museum in Richmond, Va. celebrates Poe with these antonymic events |
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Louisville belles wear custom-made hats for this equine event on the first Saturday in May |
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In Norse myth, this god had 2 ravens that flew about the world each day & came back to tell what they had seen |
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A 1783 letter signed by this general (& future president) was stolen in the 1940s but turned up at a 2006 auction |
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Peter II, Czar of Russia from 1727 to 1730, died at age 14 in an outbreak of this now-eradicated disease |
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You earn one of these with 500,000 sold copies of your latest musical single |
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Visit Poe's room at the University of Virginia & you'll notice that it has this appropriate number |
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The title of a play & a film written by Robert Harling popularized this 2-word "floral" term for Southern women |
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The raven is part of this bird's family, but "as the raven flies" just doesn't sound as good |
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Oh, "The Sound and the Fury" when 6 of this novelist's letters were stolen in 2002 (they were later found) |
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His son Hamnet died of unknown causes in 1596 at the age of 11 |
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It's the variety of tall herbs seen here |
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Take a tour of St. John's Church Cemetery, where Eliza, this relative of Poe's, is buried, led by an actress portraying her |
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Born in N.C. in 1768, this cupcake was the belle of Washington society even after she was first lady |
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A raven's not picky, eating rodents, insects, grain & garbage in this kind of diet, from the Latin for "all eating" |
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Somehow, this fascist dictator stole Clara Petacci's heart, & hundreds of their love letters are missing |
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Both his sons with Catherine of Aragon were Henry, Duke of Cornwall, & both died in infancy |
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This cartoonist drew intricate diagrams of impractical contraptions that accomplished little or nothing |
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The Casemate Museum in Fort Monroe, Va. has an exhibit on Poe's military life, including his appt. to this school |
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His Southern belle play "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" is a revision of his more famous "Summer and Smoke" |
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The motto of Raven Beer, based in this appropriate city: "The taste is poetic" |
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Stolen letters & blackmail were part of the ill luck leading to this "Earnest" playwright's rack & ruin |
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This romantic poet was only 25 when he died in Italy of tuberculosis in 1821 |
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When FDR took the U.S. economy off this, his budget director asserted, "This is the end of... civilization" |
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