Wolf Moon Tonight!

A Wolf Moon is a full moon in January. The 2010 Wolf Moon appears on January 29.

The name Wolf Moon comes from hungry wolf packs that howled outside Native American villages. The Wolf Moon is also referred to as the Moon After Yule and the Old Moon.

According to the Farmers Almanac, the Native Americans in the eastern and northern United States kept track of the seasons by naming recurring full moons such as the Wolf Moon. When it was cold, wolves howled hungrily outside the Indian villages. The January full moon was thus named a Wolf Moon. The February full moon is the Ice Moon.

Will you watch the Wolf Moon tonight? It is the brightest full moon of the year, and will appear about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than the typical full moon. Give it your best howl!

Raven poem published

On this day in 1845, the New York Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe's poem, 'The Raven." It remains to this day one of the most popular poems ever written; the vast majority of Americans can correctly identify Poe as the author, and almost as many can even quote a line or two, or at least give out with a 'Nevermore.' While Poe was a native Bostonian, Baltimore was his adopted home, and he died there in 1849. Get the whole skinny by clicking on the headline.


The Baltimore Ravens football team was named after Poe's bird. Don't believe it?
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