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mahatmakanejeeves

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Thu Oct 3, 2024, 12:15 PM Oct 2024

On this day, October 3, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore.

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• 1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death four days later.
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On this day, October 3, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2024 OP
If you go to his gravesite by the World Famous Lexington Market, no_hypocrisy Oct 2024 #1

no_hypocrisy

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1. If you go to his gravesite by the World Famous Lexington Market,
Thu Oct 3, 2024, 08:28 PM
Oct 2024

it's sunk in from all the visitors wishing to stand on his grave. Macabre in life, macabre in death.

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