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Literature 

Poe’s Helen of a Thousand Dreams

February 8, 2022February 8, 2022 Elisabeth Herschbach

For a brief spell toward the end of his life, the master of the macabre also claimed another Northeast city as his haunt: Providence, Rhode Island. And while Poe’s dark tales of the supernatural may make him a Halloween favorite, his stint in Providence is a story fit for a more sentimental holiday—Valentine’s Day.

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Tattoo City is Baltimore

April 16, 2016 Bill Hughes

They’re back! It’s the annual Tattoo Arts Convention. It opened Friday afternoon.. The setting is the Baltimore Convention Center located

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Blogs Essays 

No More Fear of Flying? Science finally begins to understand the mystery of gravity

November 29, 2014April 11, 2015 René van Slooten

Will we soon have flying carpets? Skyscrapers without elevators? Airplanes without wings? We should start to think seriously about such

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Commentary News 

Baltimore City, You’re Breaking My Heart: This is why people leave

February 10, 2014 Tracey Halvorsen

Life takes you places, you follow a course that isn’t completely of your own making. One day you wake up,

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Edgar Allan Poe’s birthday celebrated with Annabel Lee reading at the Poe House

January 20, 2014 Bill Hughes

Saturday was part of the Edgar Allan Poe’s 205th birthday celebration. A museum in his honor, ‘The Poe House,” located

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Essays Literature 

Edgar Allan Poe or Albert Einstein: Who was the greatest thinker of all time?

December 28, 2013 René van Slooten

In 1848 the American writer Edgar Allan Poe published a cosmogony “Eureka: An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe.”

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U.S. National Debt

The current U.S. national debt:
$38,942,790,613,086

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