Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. In January 1845, Poe published his poem “The Raven” to instant success.
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Mitt Romney was born in Detroit on March 12, 1947. His father came from humble origins and never graduated from college. He apprenticed as a lath and plaster carpenter and sold aluminum paint before beginning a career that brought him to the head of American Motors and then the governorship of Michigan.
In 1999, the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics was on the verge of collapse. Romney was selected to turn it around and revamped the organization’s leadership, trimmed the budget, and restored public confidence, staging one of the most successful games ever held on U.S. soil.
By 2007, at the end of Mitt’s term, the state had accumulated a $2 billion rainy day fund in its coffers, and its economy was strong.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was born in Florida, Missouri in 1835. He went on to become a steamboat pilot, silver miner, journalist, editor, lecturer, inventor, and America’s greatest author. He authored some 30 books, such as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Sam Clemens died in 1910, but his legacy lives on more than one hundred years later.
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