<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Nathaniel Free]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nathaniel Free]]></description><link>https://www.nathanielfree.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:45:09 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.nathanielfree.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Who Was Reynolds? 8 Theories About the Name Edgar Allan Poe Called on His Deathbed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe spent his last night calling one name: Reynolds. Nobody at his bedside knew who it was. Here are the eight best answers, from a polar explorer to his own alias.]]></description><link>https://www.nathanielfree.com/post/who-was-reynolds-edgar-allan-poe-last-words</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac6c3a660b96c0e2670f1c2</guid><category><![CDATA[Poe's Life and Death]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:14:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nathaniel Free</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poe the Codebreaker: 7 Facts About Edgar Allan Poe's Obsession With Secret Writing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Edgar Allan Poe dared America to send him a cipher he couldn't crack. Seven facts about his codebreaking career, from puzzles that took 150 years to solve to the reader who broke codes in two world wars.]]></description><link>https://www.nathanielfree.com/post/poe-the-codebreaker-edgar-allan-poe-cryptography</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac6ccd760b96c0e26710548</guid><category><![CDATA[Ciphers and Codes]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:14:49 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nathaniel Free</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Is the White Figure in Poe's Pym? 7 Answers to the Novel's Ending]]></title><description><![CDATA[Poe's only completed novel ends with a giant white figure rising from the sea near the South Pole. Seven answers to the ending, including the two that Jules Verne and H. P. Lovecraft wrote as novels.]]></description><link>https://www.nathanielfree.com/post/arthur-gordon-pym-ending-explained-white-figure</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac6d37160b96c0e2671131e</guid><category><![CDATA[The Antarctic Mystery]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:14:48 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nathaniel Free</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who Killed Mary Rogers? 7 Facts About the Real Murder Behind Poe's "Marie Rogêt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mary Rogers left home in New York on July 25, 1841, and was found dead in the Hudson three days later. Seven documented facts about the case and how Poe rewrote it as "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt."]]></description><link>https://www.nathanielfree.com/post/mystery-of-marie-roget-true-story-mary-rogers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac6d72860b96c0e26711965</guid><category><![CDATA[Behind the Novel]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:14:47 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nathaniel Free</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poe and the Mechanical Turk: 7 Facts About "Maelzel's Chess-Player"]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1836 Poe argued that a famous chess-playing automaton hid a human player. Seven facts about "Maelzel's Chess-Player," what Poe got right, and what he missed.]]></description><link>https://www.nathanielfree.com/post/maelzels-chess-player-poe-mechanical-turk</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ac6da364f0ef59df1e46f48</guid><category><![CDATA[Behind the Novel]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:14:46 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Nathaniel Free</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>