About the year 1806 Trevethick made an attempt to introduce his simple uncondensing high pressure engine (which he had patented as a locomotive in March, 1802) for pumping and winding in the mining districts, […]

My computer wouldn't respond until I killed some of the running processes.

The butt of the mickey-taking was Ed's surname.

In characterizing some of his tales as 'Arabesque', Poe intended no specific reference to the Arab manner of telling stories. He only used the term to refer to intricately patterned tales (intricate as the design of an oriental carpet) in which the centre of interest lay in the cunningly crafted plot, […]