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- Today in History - Aug. 4 - The Benton Crier
Today in History - Aug. 4The Benton Crier, IA - 23 hours agoThought for Today: "Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822).
- Happy Friday: News You Can Lose - Village Voice
Pixar's newest blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi movie’s gone before. And that’s a good thing. The Lives of Others has a superbly alienated title and a quintessentially 20th-century premise. Florian Henckel von ...
- Drive to identify illegal Bangladeshis - Tribune
After getting clues about the alleged involvement of Bangladeshi nationals in various criminal activities, particularly the two robberies in Sectors 23 and 15 this month, the Sonepat police has launched a special drive to identify Bangladeshi ...
- Ellerslie Flower Show tickets go on sale (Scoop.co.nz)
Tickets for the South Island’s hottest new annual event – the Ellerslie International Flower Show – went on sale this morning (21 July).
- Women of Steel cure men of insomnia - Waterloo Record
Waterloo RecordWomen of Steel cure men of insomniaWaterloo Record, Canada - 42 minutes agoWhen the emotional drama finally begins to unfold during the final act of the play, it's as predictable and maudlin as teenage poetry. ...
- Palin Flip-Flops on Whether Global Warming Has Man-Made Causes ... - ABC News Blogs
"Let me talk to you a bit about environmental policy because this interfaces with energy policy and you have some significant differences with John McCain," ABC News' Charles Gibson said in his conversation with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. "Do you still ...
- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Hayden Carruth dies - WTNH.com
Munnsville, N.Y. (AP) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Hayden Carruth is being remembered as someone who wrote about the ordinary folks who inhabited his world. Carruth was 87 when he died Monday at his home in Munnsville, New York, about 30 miles east ...
- Dogs and other gods - Calcutta Telegraph
Calcutta TelegraphDogs and other godsCalcutta Telegraph, India - 2 hours agoIf the purpose of poetry is to educate and entertain, then this collection can be said to achieve its aim well. There are helpful poems on the ways of ...
- Short Takes: Movies opening for the weekend of July 25-27 (New York Daily News)
This week's movies include "CSNY: Deja Vu," "Man on Wire," "Baghead," "Boy A," and "Bustin' Down the Door."
- Wayman Chapel A.M.E. to mark 175 years Sunday - Dayton Daily News
The first black congregation to plant roots in Dayton soil was Wayman Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, now at 3317 Hoover Ave. It was the first A.M.E. connectional church in the district and the place where Dayton's most celebrated bard ...
- Step right up to McCain's three-ring circus - Portsmouth Herald
One of the strangest excuses I've ever seen from a politician came from Republican presidential hopeful John McCain who, much to his credit, laments the drop in rhetorical quality of the presidential campaign. According to McCain's diagnosis, the ...
- Ursula K. Le Guin reading will likely pack the library - Albany Democrat Herald
Ursula K. Le Guin reading will likely pack the libraryAlbany Democrat Herald, OR - 28 minutes agoLe Guin’s latest novel is an imagining of the life of Lavinia, who gets only a brief mention as the second wife of Aeneas in Virgil’s epic poem the Aeneid. ...
- Prolific Japanese writer Masahiko Shimada visits the UI - Media Newswire (press release)
Prolific Japanese writer Masahiko Shimada visits the UIMedia Newswire (press release), NY - 8 minutes agoRecent projects have included two opera librettos and participation in a poetry boxing match. Most recently, Shimada published his serial fiction piece "The ...
- Left-wing forum pays homage to actor Mohammed Bakri - Ynetnews
Left-wing forum pays homage to actor Mohammed BakriYnetnews, Israel - 1 hour agoIn solidarity with the controversy around his disputed documentary “Jenin, Jenin,” the evening will feature performance numbers and literary and poetry ...
- Mourning parents target suicide sites - The Washington Times
Suzanne Gonzales loved wearing red with white polka dots so much that she had her prom dress custom-made in her favorite pattern. Later, as a 19-year-old student at Florida State University, she wore a red-and-white polka dot scarf as she dashed ...
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