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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Its upkeep is now overseen by a group of students and staff known as the Raven Society.

Heretic is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game created by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed by GT Interactive in 1994.

Hexen: Beyond Heretic ( styled as HeXen: Beyond Heretic ) is a dark fantasy first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software, published by id Software, and distributed by GT Interactive beginning on September 30, 1995.

Hexen II is a first-person shooter developed by Raven Software from 1996 to 1997, published by id Software and distributed by Activision.

Heretic II is a fantasy action-adventure game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision in 1998 continuing the story of Corvus, the main character from its predecessor, Heretic.

* 1845 – " The Raven " is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe

Currently, Kult is owned by Paradox Entertainment and is being published in English and French by 7ème Cercle and in Italian by Raven Distribution.

From time to time the Cockatoo is replaced with a more seasonal creature: a Turkey near Thanksgiving, a Raven near Halloween, et cetera.

Loch Raven Reservoir is a reservoir in Baltimore County, Maryland.

Raven Software ( or Raven Entertainment Software, Inc .) is an American video game developer.

Raven is the common name given to several larger-bodied members of the genus Corvus — but in Europe and North America the Common Raven is normally implied.

The Raven sold well, reaching No. 4 in the UK Albums Chart, although it is believed it could have made No. 1 but for an error in the chart.

The " Meninblack " track from The Raven is the " Two Sunspots " soundtrack slowed down.

* January 29 – " The Raven " by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time ( New York Evening Mirror ).

Soldier of Fortune ( also known as SoF ) is a first-person shooter game created by Raven Software and published by Activision on March 27, 2000 for Microsoft Windows.

The Raven paradox, also known as Hempel's paradox or Hempel's ravens is a paradox proposed by the logician Carl Gustav Hempel in the 1940s to illustrate a problem where inductive logic violates intuition.

The following propositions all imply one another: " Every object is either black or not a raven ", " Every Raven is black ", and " Every non-black object is a non-raven.

The segment was based on Poe's 1845 narrative poem " The Raven ".

While Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas remains the main author of Haida Manga, the popularization of his works and efforts over the years have sparked interest in general Haida narrative and art form, leading to other works such as Raven Steals the Light, an animation telling the traditional Haida legend of the creation of the sun, the moon, and the stars, created by Thomas Oz and narrated by Kristin.

In January 1845 Poe published his poem, " The Raven ", to instant success.

On January 29, 1845, his poem " The Raven " appeared in the Evening Mirror and became a popular sensation.

According to the show, her brother is Poe De Spell, who was transformed into a raven and serves as her magical familiar – this is a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's poem " The Raven ".

In addition to having his name be a reference to the Edgar Allan Poe poem " The Raven ", Poe often ends his stanzas with the word " nevermore ".

In Brief Lives, she persuades a man to give the dancer Tiffany money, when Tiffany would later be the only mortal to survive the explosion of the building in which she was dancing ; in The Kindly Ones, she knows full well that her brother is in trouble and unsuccessfully tries to persuade him to help her find Barnabas ; also, when read the quote ' Quoth the Raven ', from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, " The Raven ", she says ' Whatever ', which, down to the pronounced ' ev ' had been and would be said by Matthew the Raven throughout the book.

Other writers who have made use of the theme include Donald Barthelme ( in his novel Snow White ), Gregory Maguire ( in his novel Mirror Mirror ), Jane Yolen ( in her story " Snow in Summer ," published in Black Swan, White Raven ), Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald ( in their story " The Queen's Mirror ," published in A Wizard's Dozen ), Anne Sexton ( in her poem " Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ," published in Transformations ), Gail Carson Levine ( in Fairest ), and A. S. Byatt ( in her essay " Ice, Snow, Glass ," published in Mirror, Mirror on the Wall ).

Atop a bust of William Henry Harrison, a raven with the head of United States Secretary of State | Secretary of State James G. Blaine gawks down at the President, a reference to the famous Edgar Allan Poe poem " The Raven ".

These eight jobs were all given unique names, and the usual name for the original and top-most DDT was " HACTRN " (" hack-tran "); thus Guy L. Steele's famous filk poem parody of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Raven ," The HACTRN.

Ostensibly appearing as Johnny Polo, he instead debuted under a new gimmick, the Raven ( a reference to the poem by Edgar Allan Poe ).

It included a character named Marmaduke Hammerhead, the famous author of " The Black Crow ", who uses phrases like " Nevermore " and " lost Lenore ", referring to Poe's poem " The Raven ".

As in traditional mythology and folklore, the Common Raven features frequently in more modern writings such as the works of William Shakespeare, and, perhaps most famously, in the poem " The Raven " by Edgar Allan Poe.

Diverse authors in France, Sweden and Russia were heavily influenced by his works, and his poem " The Raven " swept across Europe, translated into many languages.

" The Conqueror Worm " also uses the word " evermore ", which would later evolve into " nevermore " in Poe's famous poem " The Raven " in 1845.

The poem was also rewritten and adapted as the first track to Lou Reed's 2003 album of Poe adaptations and Poe-inspired songs, The Raven.

* A character by the name of Lenore, thought to be a deceased wife, is central to Poe's poem " The Raven " ( 1845 ).

In Edgar Allan Poe's poem " The Raven ," the speaker asks the spectral bird: " Is there balm in Gilead?

An informal sequel to The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is the 1899 novel A Strange Discovery by Charles Romeyn Dake where the narrator, Doctor Bainbridge, recounts the story his patient Dirk Peters told him of his journey with Gordon Pym in Antarctica, including a discussion of Poe's poem " The Raven ".

" " Edgar Allan Poe's poem " The Raven " also exhibits internal rhyme:

* Edgar Allan Poe's poem " The Raven ": " Let me quaff this kind Nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ISBN 0-521-25444-2 ; originally authored by Kirk and Raven and published in 1957 OCLC 870519

Illustration by French impressionist Édouard Manet for the Stéphane Mallarmé translation of " The Raven ", 1875.

Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson reacted to " The Raven " by saying, " I see nothing in it " and derisively referred to Poe as " the jingle man ".

In 1875, a book-length French edition of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Raven " included lithographs by Manet and translation by Mallarmé.

In early 1999, the source code of Heretic was published by Raven Software under a license that granted rights to non-commercial use, and was re-released under the GNU General Public License on September 4, 2008.

In 1999 the source code for Hexen was released by Raven Software under a license that granted rights to non-commercial use, and was re-released under the GNU General Public License on September 4, 2008.

A modification entitled Siege was created and released by Raven Software in 1998 using updated QuakeWorld architecture, aptly dubbed HexenWorld.

Peter Raven, past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), states in the foreword to their publication AAAS Atlas of Population and Environment: " We have driven the rate of biological extinction, the permanent loss of species, up several hundred times beyond its historical levels, and are threatened with the loss of a majority of all species by the end of the 21st century.

Stregheria, founded by Raven Grimassi and based on the works of Charles Godfrey Leland, the Horned God goes by several names, including Dianus, Faunus, Cern, and Actaeon.