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Images of Poe in 2021

A search via google.com for images of “Edgar Allan Poe” yields this result on 9 October, 2021:

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Images of Hawthorne in 2021

A search via google.com for images of “Nathaniel Hawthorne” yields this result on 10 October, 2021:

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Images of Melville in 2021

A search via google.com for images of “Herman Melville” yields this result on 10 October, 2021:

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Images of Cooper in 2021

A search via google.com for images of “James Fenimore Cooper” yields this result on 11 October, 2021:

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Images of Emerson in 2021

A search via google.com for images of “Ralph Waldo Emerson” yields this result on 11 October, 2021:

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Emerson almost wins, if it weren’t for the photobombing. By the way, this is not Edgar Allan Poe:

From “Arise, Sir Charlie Chaplin” (1975) https://www.onthisday.com/articles/arise-sir-charlie-chaplin.

Poe was much more athletic.