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The widower, Verden Fell is both mournful about and feels threatened by the death of his wife, Ligeia. He had sensed her soul's reluctance to die and was concerned about her near-blasphemous statements about God (she was an atheist). Alone and troubled by an eye condition that requires him to wear dark glasses, Fell shuns the world.
McCurdy's Armor is a patented portable armored wall system intended to protect against small arms, mortars, rockets, artillery, armor-piercing rounds and suicide bombs. [1] Constructed of aluminum frames that unfold and connect to one another using steel connector pins, McCurdy's Armor can be deployed into a full guard post by a three-person ...
After initially using IBA as their main body armor system, the U.S. Marine Corps developed a completely new armor system, the Modular Tactical Vest, which was their primary body armor system in Iraq. On September 25, 2006, the Marine Corps announced that Protective Products International won a contract for 60,000 new Modular Tactical Vests (MTV ...
Coober Pedy is an opal mining town in Australia where 80% of people have moved underground to escape the scorching 120-degree heat. 16 houses built in seemingly impossible locations Skip to main ...
Poe lived in at least three different locations in Philadelphia, including homes on Arch Street, on 16th and Locust Streets, and on Coates Street near 25th Street. [3] While living in Philadelphia, Poe published some of his most well-known works, including "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Gold-Bug". [4]
The Poe Museum is located at the "Old Stone House", built circa 1740 [3] [4] and cited as the oldest original residential building in Richmond. [5]It was built by Jacob Ege, [6] [7] who immigrated from Germany to Philadelphia in 1738 and came to the James River Settlements and Col. Wm. Byrd's land grant (now known as Richmond) in the company of the family of his fiancée, Maria Dorothea ...
United States Coast Guard: Preceded by: 22-foot Raider boat [citation needed] Succeeded by: 32 ft Transportable Port Security Boat (TPSB) In service: 1997-present: General characteristics; Length: 7.5 m (24 ft 7 in) Beam: 2.4 m (7 ft 10 in) Draught: 0.991 m (3 ft 3.0 in) Propulsion: 2 × Evinrude outboard engines, 175 hp (130 kW) each: Speed
Poe Toaster is the media sobriquet used to refer to an unidentified person (or probably more than one person in succession) who, for several decades, paid an annual tribute to the American author Edgar Allan Poe by visiting the cenotaph marking his original grave in Baltimore, Maryland, in the early hours of January 19, Poe's birthday.