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- Gaia Online Completes $11 Million Series C Funding (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
SAN JOSE, Calif.----Gaia Online, the leading online hangout for teens, today announced an $11 million Series C round of venture funding from Institutional Venture Partners . At a time when eMarketer is predicting the number of teen internet users visiting virtual worlds will jump from the reported 8.2 million users in 2007 to 20 million in 2011, Gaia Online is dedicated to bringing this growing ...
- Bernard Haykel: Osama bin Laden gets poetic to draw in the faithful (Guardian Unlimited)
Bernard Haykel: In the battle to win Muslim hearts and minds al Qaida's leader is turning to poetry
- Author-physicist Peter Freund has passion for storytelling - EurekAlert (press release)
Author-physicist Peter Freund has passion for storytellingEurekAlert (press release), DC - 1 hour ago... in poetry in his essay, published on bestofneworleans.com. Codrescu also recommended Freund's book in the online journal Exquisite Corpse (corpse.org). ...
- Celebrities abroad - Today's Zaman
Celebrities abroadToday's Zaman, Turkey - 3 hours agoWe have always told other people how Hikmet promoted Turkish poetry and the country in the world. These favorable references imply that a person should do ...
- The rise and fall of Mendelssohn - Ottawa Citizen
When Helmuth Rilling brings down his baton on the first measures of Mendelssohn's Elijah tonight at the NAC, the audience will hear a work that stands beside Handel's Messiah and Haydn's Creation at the top of the oratorio heap. Felix Mendelssohn ...
- Former UST student Michael Mlekoday earns spot on national poetry team - UST Bulletin Today
Former UST student Michael Mlekoday earns spot on national poetry teamUST Bulletin Today, MN - May 8, 2008Michael Mlekoday, who was a long time member of Poetry Slam St. Thomas and performed at the National College Poetry Slam with the St. Thomas team in 2006, ...
- 18,000,000 Gardens - Time
For millions of city gardeners, this was the best time of year. They sent the children to bed early, switched off the radio, plugged the telephone bell and settled down for an evening with their dreams. They opened the new seed catalogues with ...
- Speech members have last word of the year - Morris Daily Herald
Speech members have last word of the yearMorris Daily Herald, IL - 3 hours agoDavid Feldman gave a dramatic poetry reading by Edgar Allen Poe entitled “The Tell-Tale Heart. His presentation was followed by Gail Kowsky's persuasive ...
- Something about Mary (Stuff)
This story begins at its end, in the nook of a North Sydney chapel where an elderly woman in black kneels on a cushion crocheted with Sturt desert peas, crosses herself and prays with one hand on a white marble tomb.
- One-Night Stands - East Bay Express
One-Night StandsEast Bay Express, CA - 1 hour agoBut the nihilism of their lives is countered by brief moments of emotion and visual poetry, which make the destruction and loss all the more poignant. ...
- The Washington Examiner - San Francisco Examiner
Turmoil Racks Teachers Union The Washington Teachers' Union is facing a management crisis involving infighting between the president and vice president, an intervention by its parent organization and a recall drive targeting all the officers. 46 mins ...
- Writing a haiku in German - often a tight squeeze - Nation - Thailand
Cologne's haiku workshop, held at the Museum of East Asian Art, often has up to 10 amateurs eager to read their latest poetry in German, a language of long words where it can often be a squeeze to distill an idea into such brief poem. Traditional ...
- Students' Work Helps Ex-Slaves - Hartford Courant
Students' Work Helps Ex-SlavesHartford Courant, United States - 1 hour agoThe colorful, laminated volumes, 122 in all, run the literary gamut from poetry to fantasy fiction to humor to non-fiction — everything from an alphabet ...
- Main in Motion kicks off (Montrose Daily Press)
MONTROSE — Coordinators joked it was almost “Rain in Motion.†But, after wet weather earlier Thursday, Montrose’s premiere summer event kicked off under cloudy skies.
- Daily Messenger Bulletin Board (MPNnow.com)
Event happenings in and around the Yates County areas this week.
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