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Poe's 1875 monument.
Poe's 1875 monument.

Did you know ...that Edgar Allan Poe's literary influence in France was kick-started by two translations of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" which did not credit its original author?

Did you know ...that when Poe was reburied in 1875 (pictured), they accidentally first dug up the body of a 19-year old American Civil War veteran named Philip Mosher?

Did you know ...that "The Raven" was inspired in part by Charles Dickens's novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty?

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