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73The Ballad of Resurrection Mary
Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois - made famous by the ghost story of Resurrection Mary. (Photo Wikimedia Commons.)Resurrection Mary: Urban Legend or True Entity? I have an avid interest in ghost...
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65François Villon, the Vagabond King
Bonnie is visiting Clyde in prison and thinks of escaping like the medieval French dark poet François Villon so many times did. She admires this Vagabond King very much. A new episode from the Story of Bonnie and Clyde!
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66A Poet of the Great War: Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (1893-1918) was an English poet and soldier. He is regarded by many as the leading poet of "the Great War". His work is shocking and realistic with its focus upon the horrors of...
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72Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist, so-called "father of English tragedy", the "inventor" of dramatic blank verse, possibly died in a tavern fight, possibly was a spy... and possibly wrote the works of William Shakespeare too!
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68In Flanders Fields
The last entry of the First World War poetry series "Shell Shocked Isabel Shrapnel" is a Special about the most famous poem from the First World War: In Flanders Fields, by John McCrae.
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80The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
There are some great interpretations on YouTube or MySpace of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. So here is a top 3 of my favorites, starring Christopher Walken, Vincent Price, the wonderful illustrations by...
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71Here Is Your Favorite Ghostwriter Speaking:
Poetry and "litte cruel fairy tales" by the Flemish writer Patrick Bernauw aka the Lost Dutchman around the Great War 1914-1918. Shell Shocked Isabel Shrapnel, An Angel Born in No Man's Land,...
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75The Court of Miracles
Bonnie Parker is fascinated by the infamous Court of Miracles, the Paris district where once all the crookes of the French capital were looking for a refuge. The district got its name from the beggars who calculated on the compassion of the brave citizens: if you were lame or blind, you could make more money.
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68Shell Shocked Isabel Shrapnel (1)
"I am five, six, seven and my father has cake for my birthday and because it's Armistice Day..." - A young girl starts telling an amazing and horrific story about the Great War...
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63Memoirs of Lord Halloween
Desiree D. was found in a derelict building nearby the Devils Castle in the old city of Ghent (Flanders), together with the decapitated body of the poet and singer-songwriter also known as Lord Halloween...
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