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词汇 baltimore ravens
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Baltimore Ravens. Would you believe this football team is named after a poem? It is. The Baltimore Ravens honors Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” one of the most famous poems in American history, which Poe wrote in 1844 and sold to the New York Mirror for 35 bucks. Poe was intimately connected with Baltimore, where he spent his last weeks on earth, dying four days after he’d been found delirious outside a saloon- polling place where he may have been casting ballots for drinks. Few remember that Poe was also an accomplished athlete, pos- sibly the greatest author-athlete in American literary history. He once swam seven and a half miles from Richmond to War- wick, Virginia, against a tide running 2–3 miles an hour. He long-jumped 21 feet while at West Point and was a swift run- ner. Fully six members of Princeton University’s 1899 football team were named Poe, each of them a great-nephew of Edgar Allan Poe. To further honor the writer, the Ravens have named their three mascot ravens Edgar, Allan, and Poe. See edgar; princeton.
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