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Happy 200th Birthday Edgar

Submitted by ljhg on Sat, 01/17/2009 - 09:15.

Poe at 200 -- Eerie After All These Years

By JOHN J. MILLER

Edgar Allan Poe

On a snowy night toward the end of his life, Edgar Allan Poe delivered a lecture on the origins of the universe. It was an unusual topic -- Poe was always more interested in death than birth -- and the reviews were mixed.