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Thursday December 10th, 2020 day edition

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After his young wife, Virginia, got tuberculosis in 1842 and died five years later, the already hard-drinking Poe apparently dove deeper into the bottle.

In the late summer of 1849, he was in Richmond, Virginia, where he proposed to an old sweetheart, Elmira Shelton.

On September 27, 1849, Poe left Richmond, supposedly bound for Philadelphia.

The details of his actions and whereabouts over the next few days remain uncertain, but on October 3, a passerby noticed Poe slumped near an Irish pub in Baltimore, Maryland.

Poe’s death left a mystery that has lingered for more than a century.

Shortly after his death, Rufus Griswold, Poe’s literary rival, wrote an obituary characterizing him as a morally bankrupt, drunken womanizer.

The victims were drugged, disguised and forced to vote over and over at different polling places for the chosen candidates, then left for dead. »

OHIO STATE WILL ADVANCE TO BIG TEN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

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OHIO STATE WILL ADVANCE TO BIG TEN FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.

Decision was Voted on by the Big Ten Conference Administrators Council and Made in Collaboration with the Big Ten Presidents and Chancellors and the Big Ten Conference.

As a result of the decision, Ohio State will represent the East Division in the 2020 Big Ten Football Championship game against Northwestern. »

The Republican Party Is Now a Seditious Organization

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The 17 accomplices to this braindead seditious conspiracy are Missouri, Arkansas, South Dakota, Florida (Shocker!

The Republican Party is now a seditious, subversive organization, a Fifth Column of organized authoritarian yahoos.

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BREAKING: New Species of Whale Discovered

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All species of whale have their own distinct set of sounds, and acoustic matching is frequently used to identify whale species; but what happens when you pick up a sound that no one has ever heard before?

In Sea Shepherds case, they decided to send a crew to check it out and find the source of the sound.

If the sound was previously unidentified, then why were the scientists so surprised to find a new species? »