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Three days across the Atlantic.
A newspaper hoax by Poe.
In 1844, a New York newspaper printed Edgar Allan Poe’s account of a three-day balloon crossing as fact. The invented report was retracted two days later.
The remarkable journey
had happened only on the page.
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