Simoom
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Simoom or Saimum is a strong, hot, dry, dust-laden wind. The word is generally used to describe a local wind that blows in the Sahara, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and the deserts of Arabian Peninsula. Its te
Sandstorm approaching the sphinx at Gîza at sunset, Egypt. C Wellcome V0049386
MS. Found in a Bottle
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"MS. Found in a Bottle" is an 1833 short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The plot follows an unnamed narrator at sea who finds himself in a series of harrowing circumstances. As he nears his
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…and dead animals) that something amazing happened here this day, but the temperature record is impossible to validate." Edgar Allan Poe's short story "MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833) features a storm off the coast of Java, wherein "every appearance warranted me [the protagonist-narrator] in apprehending a Simoom." In the…
Baltimore Saturday Visiter, October 19, 1833, Prize tale
Illustration by "Wogel" for an early edition
The Gift, Carey and Hart, Philadelphia, 1836
December 1835 issue of Southern Literary Messenger, featuring "MS. Found in a Bottle" (p. 33) and "Politian" (p. 13) by Edgar Allan Poe