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Alexander Poe's 'The Eight Percent,' Starring Ben McKenzie, selected by Delta customers NEW YORK, April 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL), the official airline sponsor of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, announced filmmaker Alexander Poe and his film, "The Eight Percent," winner of the third annual Delta Fly-in Movies national film competition. Poe's film received the highest rating among flyers who viewed the film while traveling on Delta or online at...

The U.S. Postal Service says it's marking the 200th birthday of author and poet Edgar Allan Poe with a special stamp. The author of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher and The Raven, among dozens of other gloomy works, was born Jan. 19, 1809. He died Oct. 7, 1849. The stamp honoring Poe was dedicated last week at the Library of Virginia in Richmond where several dignitaries -- including Poe's distant cousin -- spoke of his accomplishments. The 42-cent, First-Class...

New Exhibition At Edgar Allan Poe House Highlights Year-long Series Of Events PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Just days before literary great Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday on January 19, 2009, Philadelphia can finally claim Poe as its own. After a friendly two-year feud, Poe scholars from Philadelphia (Ed Pettit), Baltimore (Jeff Jerome) and Boston (Paul Lewis) debated this subject last evening at the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the audience decided that Pettit made the best...