. Griswold followed the obituary with a memoir in which he portrayed Poe as a drunken, womanizing madman with no morals and no friends. Griswold’s attacks were meant to cause the public to dismiss Poe and his works, but the biography had exactly the opposite effect and instead drove the sales of Poe’s books higher than they had ever been during the author’s lifetime.
Poe's Life | Edgar Allan Poe Museum - 1 views
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Days after Poe’s death, his literary rival Rufus Griswold wrote a libelous obituary of the author in a misguided attempt at revenge for some of the offensive things Poe had said and written about him
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The Galileo Project | Christianity | The Inquisition - 0 views
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The inquisitor questioned the accused in the presence of at least two witnesses.
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Penalties went from visits to churches, pilgrimages, and wearing the cross of infamy to imprisonment
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death
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This dissident poet says elections and the nuclear pact give him hope for Iran | Public... - 0 views
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The 44-year-old journalist and poet might have ended up dead, like some of his writer friends back home in Iran. Several of them were murdered in a series of political assassinations that began in the late 1990s.
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freedom of expression, the Islamic Republic of Iran is among the worst of the worst. The country is ranked 169th, out of a total of 180 countries, on the 2016 World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders.
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Rafizadeh looks every bit the intellectual — glasses, leather jacket, cigarette. As a child, he would wake up early and recite Persian poetry out loud, annoying his father and his siblings.
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Inventions of the Renaissance - 2 views
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early 1230's to launch fireworks and in weapons.
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Knights were replaced by the foot soldier who carried firearms.
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between 1590 and 1608
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