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- Love and strife under the stars - Charlotte Observer
Love and strife under the starsCharlotte Observer, NC - 28 minutes agoWith most of the action set in the same area, we can settle into our beach chairs, sip our wine and allow Shakespeare's lush poetry to work its magic. ...
- Blog: Confessions of a museum junkie - Independent News Online
GROWING UP, my brother and I found ourselves walking through more museums, Civil War battlefields and other educational things than we can remember. We did not voluntarily go to most of these places and thought them lame at best. I think this tends ...
- 'Beheading' poet wins conviction appeal (Daily Telegraph)
A BRITISH woman who called herself the "lyrical terrorist" and wrote a poem about beheading a hostage, has won an appeal against a criminal conviction in London.
- Hercules: the Thracian Wars #1-2 (Radical Comics) - Play by Play
Play by PlayHercules: the Thracian Wars #1-2 (Radical Comics)Play by Play, MO - 1 hour agoIf the first thing you think of when you hear the name "Hercules" is Disney, please go and read some well-translated ancient Greek myths and epic poetry now ...
- A steady stream of consciousness (Honolulu Advertiser)
Jon Hamblin chooses to work on weathered, corrugated roofing metal that has been discarded. On the wavy, dented and often punctured surfaces he paints figures, animals and flora in bright oil enamel colors.
- Iva Caruso (The Falmouth Enterprise)
Iva (Barstow) Caruso of Weymouth, who leaves family in Bourne, died on June 22. She had battled heart disease for more than 18 years.
- Book (of verse) is thrown at Frost home vandals - Chicago Tribune
Book (of verse) is thrown at Frost home vandalsChicago Tribune, United States - 6 hours ago... into Robert Frost's former home for a beer party and trashed the place are being required to take classes in his poetry as part of their punishment. ...
- Zidane to play in Sydney on June 1 (AAP via Yahoo!7 Sports)
Zinedine Zidane is coming to Australia with a star-studded international team to play an exhibition match at Sydney Football Stadium on June 1.
- CENTRAL NEW YORK NEWS (The Post-Standard)
MADE IN NY 2008: Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, 205 Genesee St., Auburn. Annual juried exhibit featuring New York state artists. Suggested donation: $3; younger than 12 and members, free. Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Vice-President’s statement on Partition justified - Statesman
Sir, ~ BK Bhattacharya (Letters, 1 July) has questioned the correctness of Vice-President Hamid Ansari’s statement that “Indian Muslims were opposed to India’s partitionâ€. The correspondent contends that most of the Muslims were ...
- When Czechoslovakia wowed the world (The Prague Post)
In 1958, the Czechoslovak pavilion at the World Expo in Brussels was an international triumph. Fifty years later, artifacts from this extremely successful exhibit for promoting Czech culture, design, fashion, craftsmanship and overall ingenuity at the dawn of the Atomic Age can be revisited at the Prague City Gallery’s space in the Municipal Library.
- Gulzar's new anthology of poems steeped in nostalgia (IANS via Yahoo! India News)
New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) 'Pancham, you remember those monsoon days, when in the valley below the mountains, rail tracks made their way emerging out of the mist..' Poet, lyricist and filmmaker Gulzar's ode to musician R.D. Burman, popularly called Pancham, in his new collection of poems whips up myriad emotions with its vivid imagery and simple word play.
- Ray Manzarek Plots New Doors Documentary, Another Live Album - Rolling Stone
The Doors ‘ Ray Manzarek has a host of new Morrison and co. projects in the works for 2008 . First up is another Doors live album Live in Pittsburgh 1970 , the third installment in the “Bright Midnight Archives†collection of official bootlegs ...
- Former AP Haiti correspondent Michael Norton dies - FOX News
Michael Norton _ who spent nearly two decades covering Haiti's coups, rebellions and disasters for The Associated Press _ died Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 66. Norton chronicled the turmoil that followed former dictator Jean-Claude ...
- Witness An Extraordinary Poetic Journey Through Life -- New Poetry Book Reveals Insights On Life's Journey and One's ... (PrimeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance)
DAVENPORT, Iowa, June 2, 2008 -- Author Royal A. Kelly, like most people, is full of hopes and dreams with great expectations. He shares his life and his dreams through "My Life and Some," a wonderful anthology that showcases his poetic skills.
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