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- Claudia Roth Pierpont: The man who taught rulers how to rule. (The New Yorker)
One method of torture used in Florentine jails during the glorious days of the Renaissance was the strappado: a prisoner was hoisted into the air by a rope attached to his wrists, which had been tied behind his back, and then suddenly dropped toward the floor as many times as . . .
- Asheville a book lover's paradise - Asheville Citizen-Times
ASHEVILLE – Books do furnish a room, the British novelist Anthony Powell once wrote. In Asheville, books are deeply woven into the fabric of the city’s vibrant culture. "We are lucky in Asheville. We are an art destination and the prevalence of ...
- First gay 'wedding': Only the bride was missing - Daily Telegraph
For this was Britain's first gay "wedding", held in one of the Church of England's oldest and most attractive churches. St Bartholomew the Great at West Smithfield, in the City of London, dates from the 12th century but it can have seen few more ...
- From giant carrot to blue-trunk tree, a garden just screams 'special' - Seattle Times
From giant carrot to blue-trunk tree, a garden just screams 'special'Seattle Times, United States - 3 hours agoHer love of vegetables and flowers, of soil, art and poetry is clear in what she grows, what she collects and how she arranges all these elements into one ...
- Joanna Lumley chills out in the Land of Northern Lights - Times Online
Joanna Lumley chills out in the Land of Northern LightsTimes Online, UK - 4 hours agoIt's an intelligent take on being a sybarite - the sort of thing you would expect from someone who looks as if she's made entirely of hand-cream, poetry and ...
- The Tango King - Star-ecentral.com
Joe Hasham’s Ismail The Last Days will be staged at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) in Jalan Strachan today till Aug 31. To those who knew Tun Dr Ismail intimately, he was affectionately called “The Tango King”. To others, he ...
- Classic Film Review: 'The Human Condition' (The Epoch Times)
“The Human Condition" (Ningen no Joken), explores the moral and ethical dilemmas of life within authoritarian systems.
- The Dark Knight: Striving to be impressive, but essentially empty - World Socialist Web Site
World Socialist Web SiteThe Dark Knight: Striving to be impressive, but essentially emptyWorld Socialist Web Site, MI - 1 hour ago...And some on the opposite grounds—“Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, it goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood ...
- Good music you can't hear on FM radio - PennLive.com
Good music you can't hear on FM radioPennLive.com, PA - 4 hours agoAs much as I love "The Shepard's Dog," however, my favorite Iron and Wine song is "Freedom Hangs Like Heaven," found on his "Woman King" EP, and definitely ...
- Drugstores, diners and the road behind - VillageSoup Belfast
Drugstores, diners and the road behindVillageSoup Belfast, USA - 1 hour agoIt’s my life, and I intend on supporting the things I believe in and rejecting or fighting those I don’t. I like the poetry of narrow vintage diners, ...
- Lesbos locals lose lesbian appeal - BBC News
The island's name was applied to gay women in acknowledgement of the female poet Sappho, who wrote love poems about both women and men in about 600 BC. The man spearheading the case, publisher Dimitris Lambrou, had claimed that international ...
- A Kennedy Goes Public - Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- Caroline Kennedy is beginning to show a real enthusiasm for the family business. When the daughter of John F. Kennedy was named to Sen. Barack Obama's vice-presidential search committee, many political observers saw the move as mere ...
- Red Bull Soundclash Venue Change (Scoop.co.nz)
The time and date are staying the same… but the inaugural Red Bull Soundclash has a new home – the Fight Club style Shed Two at 135 Halsey Street, Viaduct Harbour. Gruntier and grittier, it will be more in line with the madness that threatens to ensue and points towards a great (fight) night out.
- Soundcheck Archive - WNYC
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- The hidden face of political Islamism - Times Online
Who says that Islamists can't learn a trick or two from the West when they have to? Take a glance at the glossy brochure of Islam Expo - billed as Europe's “biggest Islamic cultural festival” - which ended at Olympia yesterday. You could be ...
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