When Edgar failed, they suggested to Ricordi that he should drop Puccini, but Ricordi said that he would stay with him and made him an allowance from his own pocket until his next opera.

The film for Leone was to have been a homage to classic writers from literature such as — Edgar Lee Masters ( Spoon River Anthology ), Ambrose Bierce (" An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge "), Mark Twain (" A military campaign that failed "), Stephen Crane ( The red badge of Courage ), and Margaret Mitchell ( Gone with the Wind ), of whose novel he had wanted to film a remake.

Chalk and Saltwater explored the individuals involved in the failed show ( this included Edgar B. Davis, the play's backer and " angel ", Brock and Murdock Pemberton, J. Frank Davis, and of course Antoinette ) and their lives before and after The Ladders 789-performance run.

He took part in a failed uprising to support the 1069 invasion by Sweyn II of Denmark and Edgar Ætheling ( including an attack on York ), but then once again submitted to the William and was granted Judith, the King's niece, to marry.

After the death of Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, Edwin and Morcar threw their support behind Edgar the Ætheling, who was proclaimed king, but they failed to muster an effective military response to the invading forces of William of Normandy and soon submitted.

After Harold's death at the Battle of Hastings, Edwin and Morcar were the principal supporters of a new regime under Edgar the Ætheling, but failed to take effective steps against the invading Normans and soon submitted to Duke William.

Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist ; he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

Ealdred supported Harold as king, but when Harold was defeated at the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred backed Edgar the Ætheling and then endorsed King William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy and a distant relative of King Edward's.

He was the younger brother of King Edgar, who was unmarried, and his brother's heir presumptive by 1104 ( and perhabs earlier ).

On the death of Edgar in 1107 he succeeded to the Scottish crown ; but, in accordance with Edgar's instructions, their brother David was granted an appanage in southern Scotland.

Edgar's will granted David the lands of the former kingdom of Strathclyde or Cumbria, and this was apparently agreed in advance by Edgar, Alexander, David and their brother-in-law Henry I of England.

Alexander was, like his brothers Edgar and David, a notably pious king.

Edgar Cayce first mentioned Atlantis in 1923 and later suggested that it was originally a continent-sized region extending from the Azores to the Bahamas, holding an ancient, highly evolved civilization which had ships and aircraft powered by a mysterious form of energy crystal.

In 1995, the year Ajax won the Champions League, the Dutch national team was almost entirely composed of Ajax players, with Edwin van der Sar in goal ; players such as Michael Reiziger, Frank de Boer, and Danny Blind in defense ; Ronald de Boer, Edgar Davids, and Clarence Seedorf in midfield ; and Patrick Kluivert and Marc Overmars in attack.

Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, she joined the " rejected " Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley.

The name was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven, as Poe lived for a time in Baltimore, died there in 1849, and is buried there.

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His interest in space, however, was his primary focus, especially after reading science fiction stories by writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs, which stirred his imagination about life on other planets, such as Mars.

Edgar Chamorro later stated that there was strong opposition within the UDN against working with the Guardsmen and that the merging only took place because of insistence by the CIA.

All of the boys were called " Ike ", such as " Big Ike " ( Edgar ) and " Little Ike " ( Dwight ); the nickname was intended as an abbreviation of their last name.

Edgar took the first turn at school, and Dwight was employed as a night supervisor at the Belle Springs Creamery.

Edgar Codd worked at IBM in San Jose, California, in one of their offshoot offices that was primarily involved in the development of hard disk systems.

* Liliane Kaufmann, wife of Edgar J. Kaufmann who commissioned the home Fallingwater from Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935, was a well known breeder and owner of long-haired dachshunds.

Edgar Allan Poe ( born Edgar Poe ; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849 ) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement.

He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts ; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family.

This plaque marks the approximate location where Edgar Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts.

He was born Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of English-born actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.

Edgar may have been named after a character in William Shakespeare's King Lear, a play the couple was performing in 1809.

David Edelstein of New York Magazine, while also praising DiCaprio, wrote, " It's too bad J. Edgar is so shapeless and turgid and ham-handed, so rich in bad lines and worse readings ".

Edgar Lustgarten, " Verdict in Dispute ," 1949, states on p. 161 that the " The Thompson verdict is now recognised as bad, and the trial from which it sprang stands out as an example of the evils that may flow from an attitude of mind.

This anthology of ' bad verse ' is justly famous as being one of the funniest of all poetry collections, featuring William Wordsworth, Edgar Allan Poe and many others at considerably less than their best.

" Das Fräulein von Scuderi ", an 1819 short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which Mlle de Scudery establishes the innocence of the police's favorite suspect in the murder of a jeweller, is sometimes cited as the first detective story and a direct influence on Edgar Allan Poe's " The Murders in the Rue Morgue ".

Similar wording appears in Edgar Allan Poe's 1831 short story, The Bargain Lost, although not at the very beginning.

* Histoires extraordinaires ( 1968 ) ( segment Toby Dammit, based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story " Never Bet the Devil Your Head ")

Other notable pre-20th century examples include Giacomo Casanova's 1788 Icosaméron, a 5-volume, 1, 800-page story of a brother and sister who fall into the Earth and discover the subterranean utopia of the Mégamicres, a race of multicolored, hermaphroditic dwarfs ; Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by a " Captain Adam Seaborn " ( 1820 ) which reflected the ideas of John Cleves Symmes, Jr .; Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket ; Jules Verne's 1864 novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth, which described a prehistoric subterranean world ; and George Sand's 1884 novel Laura, Voyage dans le Cristal where unseen and giant crystals could be found in the interior of the Earth.

An adventure story that may have influenced Edgar Rice Burroughs's later books.

Following the 18th-century development of the novel as a literary form, in the early 19th century, Mary Shelley's books Frankenstein and The Last Man helped define the form of the science fiction novel ; later Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon.

Introduced by Edgar Lustgarten, each episode featured a dramatised reconstruction of a " true crime " story.

A classic definition of a short story is that one should be able to read it in one sitting, a point most notably made in Edgar Allan Poe's essay " The Philosophy of Composition " ( 1846 ).

" The Black Cat " is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

" The Pit and the Pendulum " is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843.

* Pit and the Pendulum-Fully searchable text of Edgar Allan Poe's story.

* Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Tell-Tale Heart is first published.

On Mars he has built his image of the perfect haunted mansion, replicating the building from Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Fall of the House of Usher ", complete with mechanical creatures, creepy soundtracks and the extermination of all life in the surrounding area.

* 1837: Silence – A Fable is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, written in 1837 ( see: bibliography ).

Metempsychosis is a prominent theme in Edgar Allan Poe's 1832 short story " Metzengerstein ".

" The writer and J. Edgar Hoover biographer Curt Gentry has noted that a similar story about Hall was planted in the media through the FBI's secret COINTELPRO campaign of disruption and disinformation against radical opposition groups.

Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story " The Cask of Amontillado " invokes the image of the serpent as a symbol for petty vengefulness.

Edgar Allan Poe's 1839 short story " The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion " has two souls in the afterlife discussing the destruction of the world by a comet that removed nitrogen from earth's atmosphere ; this left only oxygen, resulting in a worldwide inferno.

The Fall of the House of Usher ( 1928 ) is a short silent horror film adaptation of the short story, " The Fall of the House of Usher " by Edgar Allan Poe.

( This episode may have influenced Edgar Allan Poe's short story " Hop-Frog ".

Edgar Allan Poe's short story " The Masque of the Red Death " is based at a masquerade ball in which a central figure turns out to be his costume.

The screenplay by Bill Scott and Fred Grable is based on the 1843 short story of the same title by Edgar Allan Poe.

In Edgar Allan Poe's short story " Descent into the maelstrom ," the narrator, looking down on the whirlpool from a mountain, refers to the water as " the howling Phlegethon below ," signifying its danger and coiling effect.