(July 2011) Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon a Midnight is a one man play starring John Astin as Edgar Allan Poe. Astin said, of why he wanted to do a play on Poe, I feel that Poe, through his own tortured existence, gained deep insight into the nature of the universe, along with an intense love and appreciation for life itself. The Play.
Wall from a house in the Suburra. Suburra (usually spelled Subura in antiquity) was an area of the city of Rome, Italy located below the Murus Terreus on the Carinae. In ancient Roman times, it was a crowded lower-class area that was also notorious as a red-light district.
quadra (plural quadrae) ( 1 architecture) The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like. 2  A fillet, or listel.