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Two Rare Corpse Flowers Bloom, Mistakenly Declared Dead, Seawater Pool Plan, Research Monkeys Finally Captured, and TDIH - "The Raven" is First Published


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For today's Weird Wednesday episode, two smelly flowers bloom on opposite sides of the planet, the mother who was mistakenly declared dead, Greece’s pool plan to help with droughts, and escaped research monkeys are found after two months on the run. Plus, on This Day in History, Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The Raven" is published for the first time.

Corpse flower: Plant with 'deadly' stench pulls huge crowds for rare bloom in Sydney | Offbeat News | Sky News

Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse | AP News

Rare and Stinky 'Corpse Flower' Blooms Draw Thousands of Visitors to Gardens in New York and Sydney | Smithsonian

Woman 'surprised' after being declared dead | US News | Sky News

How a typo led to a Maryland woman being declared dead – NBC4 Washington

Hotels on Greek islands could soon fill swimming pools with seawater in drought fight | World News | Sky News

Greece panic as hotels may be forced to fill pools with seawater amid worsening droughts | World | News | Express.co.uk

Last 4 escaped monkeys are captured in South Carolina after months on the loose | AP News

Monkeys who escaped from South Carolina facility captured, police say | USA Today

TDIH: The Raven Summary

On Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe | Summary, Analysis & Symbolism

LitCharts: The Raven Summary

Screenwriting Lessons from Edgar Allan Poe

How to Write a Poem Like Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’

Spark Notes: The Raven Plot Summary

The Philosophy of Composition

Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” Summary & Meaning


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