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  2. Path of Exile - Wikipedia

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    Ruthless - Various gameplay changes are added to increase the game's difficulty. Gameplay changes include reduced item drops, removed gameplay and crafting mechanics, and weaker passive skills. There is also a seasonal Challenge league, with special mechanics that are introduced for the duration of the league.

  3. Poe's law - Wikipedia

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    Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.

  4. Wilmington massacre - Wikipedia

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    It also provided conservative traditions and a model of masculine devotion and courage in an age of gender anxieties and ruthless material striving. [155] However, historians have argued that the reunion was of the North and the South was "exclusively a white man's phenomenon and the price of the reunion was the sacrifice of the African Americans".

  5. C. Auguste Dupin - Wikipedia

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    Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin [oɡyst dypɛ̃] is a fictional character created by Edgar Allan Poe.Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's 1841 short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", widely considered the first detective fiction story. [1]

  6. The Poetic Principle - Wikipedia

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    The essay was based on a lecture that Poe gave in Providence, Rhode Island at the Franklin Lyceum.The lecture reportedly drew an audience of 2,000 people. [2]Some Poe scholars have suggested that "The Poetic Principle" was inspired in part by the critical failure of his two early poems "Al Aaraaf" and "Tamerlane", after which he never wrote another long poem.

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  8. Death of Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

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    A printer named Joseph W. Walker sent a letter requesting help to Joseph E. Snodgrass, an acquaintance of Poe. [8] His letter reads as follows: Dear Sir—There is a gentleman, rather the worse for wear, at Ryan's 4th ward polls, who goes under the cognomen of Edgar A. Poe, and who appears in great distress, & he says he is acquainted with you ...

  9. Cruel and unusual punishment - Wikipedia

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    Common arguments are that capital punishment is more expensive when factoring in appeals versus life in prison, and that the government has been wrong before on death penalty cases (therefore, the government could be wrong again, and the government ought not have the authority to end a life). These two arguments alone may or may not qualify ...