Why does the author include an allusion to Betsy Ross at the beginning of the passage?

In edgar allen poe's "masque of the red death", what object is kept in the black room?

For which cause did swift not write? the tory government the devaluation of irish coins the whig wars under william iii the starvation in ireland

The truck driver backed his vehicle between two buildings, he did not have an inch to spare on either side. fragment, run on, or complete sentence?