Poe lived in Philadelphia from 1838 to 1844

Even though I would like to believe I am impartial, I will admit that I am adding Favre purely out of hatred. While the mainstream media loves Favre for "being a kid out there" and for "just having fun" countless NFL fans (myself included) see him as a guy who holds no respect for fans or teammates (just look at Bleacher Report member Michael McDonald's list "10 reasons Why I Hate Brett Favre" - and keep in mind that's BEFORE he signed with the Vikings).Retirement drama aside, Favre lands on this list purely for his game against Green Bay a few weeks back. Vince oh Vince.Just ask anyone from the city of Toronto what they think of Vince Carter and you'll understand why he's on this list. Vince's natural ability is endless, unfortunately he's got all the heart of the Tin Man (it's early, I need a coffee, that's the best I could come up with.)Although he won the 2000 dunk competition and had - in my opinion - the best dunk of all time when he went OVER 7-footer Freddy Weis in the 2000 Olympics - many feel Vince has never lived up to the hype. It got so ugly for Vince that as an "FU" the Raptors took away his Momma's parking spot. He forced a trade shortly after (for three dollars and a gift certificate from Applebee's) to New Jersey.Things didn't get any better there as one of the nicest guys in the league, Jason Kidd, asked for a trade to Dallas in part just to get away from Vince and his lackluster effort.We'll see how things go now that he's on a talented Orlando team, but if history's any indication we'll see Vince routinely going 9-for-26 with 2 rebounds and 2 assists almost every game..

Was there really any doubtEveryone knows about TO's antics by now:Over-shadowing Jerry Rice during Jerry's last home game.Criticizing San Fran QB Jeff Garcia and calling him gay ("if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck" as he said in a Playboy interview). Agreeing to go to Baltimore before reversing course to go to Philly and then getting into a public soap opera with QB Donovan McNabb. After landing in Dallas and tearfully responding to the media's criticism of Tony Romo with "That's my Quarterback" it seemed like he may have turneda new leaf. Fast forward to the next season when he publicly accused Romo of holding secret meetings to keep the ball out of his hands and was such a distraction that he was let go during the off-season He is now toiling away in obscurity in Buffalo. TO loves him some him, but maybe if he'd have loved him some silence he'd have the respect of his peers - despite Hall of Fame numbers, it's definitely no sure thing that he'll get into Canton.

LifestyleBoston claimed the title because Poe, the author of such classics as "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" was born in the Massachusetts city on Jan 19, 1809. Baltimore vied for the title because it is where he is buried.But in a public debate, part of a celebration of Poe's birthday, an audience of some 400 Philadelphians let out the loudest cheer when asked to decide which of the three cities should be called Poe's true home.The debate billed as a "Poe Down" pitted Paul Lewis, a professor of English at Boston College, against Jeff Jerome, curator of the Edgar Allan Poe House in Baltimore, and Ed Pettit, a Philadelphia writer who provoked the controversy in 2007 with a newspaper article arguing that Poe's bones should be exhumed and moved to Philadelphia.Poe lived in Philadelphia from 1838 to 1844. Pettit argued that the city is where his talent truly flowered and where he wrote many of his best-known stories."Philadelphia was the crucible of Poe's imaginative genius," said Pettit, who organized the debate, which is one of a series of events around the country to mark his 200th anniversary of Poe's birth.The debate was held at the library that houses the stuffed raven that inspired Poe's poem "The Raven", which was first published in January 1845.Pettit confessed he wasn't seriously proposing that Poe's remains be dug up. Rather, he said, it was the author's reputation that should be moved.But Jerome argued that in Baltimore Poe wrote his first true horror story and won his first literary prize there. "These cities should beg his forgiveness on bended knee before they claim one crumb of his legacy."Poe also lived in Richmond, Virginia, in New York City and in Britain. Lifestyle. Protests against the government and the central bank havebecome regular fixtures in the once-tranquil capital since thecurrency plunged and the financial system collapsed in Octoberdue to billions of dollars of foreign debt incurred by banks.