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Sculptor Stefanie Rocknak was chosen out of 265 artists to create a commemorative statue of Edgar Allen Poe to go up in the Boston neighborhood where he was born, and she has just unveiled the final design of her amazing statue.

Today's Paper, also known as the e-Edition, is an online replica of the printed newspaper.

Today is known as Tax Day aka the day where you better get those taxes finished.

Emoticons might not be an invention of the computer age. They might be stowaways from a clever 17th century poet.

The PBS documentary The Trials of Muhammad Ali , which airs on WETA on Monday, April 14, 2014 at 10 p.m. , covers the boxing champ's struggles outside the ring during the tumultuous mid-1960s, when his refusal to serve in the military during the Vietnam War led to him being stripped of his title, and nearly cost him his freedom.

Arthur Penn's " Bonnie and Clyde " is a movie that transformed American cinema as audiences know it today.

Acting icon Robert De Niro and crooner Michael Buble were honoured for their philanthropic efforts at Muhammad Ali's Celebrity Fight Night on Saturday .

North-western fountain in the square Louis-XIII, at the center of the place des Vosges, Paris, France.

Teddy Roosevelt died in 1919. Doris Kearns Goodwin was not born until 1943, but to hear her tell it, she spent the better part of seven years living with the legendary U.S. president.

He worked with Diana Ross, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli and Miles Davis but trumpeter, composer and producer Gil Askey was better known to the people of Frankston as the elderly gentleman who gave his time to young musicians and could ''talk the leg off a table''.

The new 90-minute powder keg dark comedy by Eric Coble and directed by Molly Smith began performances on Tuesday, April 1, 2014 and officially opens on Monday, April 21, 2014 for a limited engagement, following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run at Washington DC's Arena Stage in the fall of 2013.

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

When told that the footwear in question is really just cheap and unremarkable, Porter jumps in.

On this day in 1894, the first commercial exhibition of motion pictures in history was given in New York City, using ten Kinetoscopes.

ELGIN – To mark the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination next year, an Illinois man is constructing a full-size replica of the funeral train car that carried the president's body from Washington, D.C., to his final resting place in Springfield.

To that end, the political activist created a giant collage of president Ronald Reagan, and prominently displayed the portrait on the front of a vacant building overlooking traffic at the intersection of Hylan Boulevard and Bedford Avenue in Midland Beach.

Like most in Ford's Theatre that night, Spencer Bronson figured the gunshot he heard was part of the play.

Abraham Lincoln? Boyfriend material. George Washington? A wise man, even as a teen .

The Grand Rapids Public Museum is displaying the overcoat of a Civil War surgeon who was on guard duty the night Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre.

The gray Toyota Corolla that Abbie Hoffman drove in Mexico during his fugitive years still sits in upper Bucks County, parked on the old farm where he lived and took his own life 25 years ago.