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- 'Dubai Tower' gets a new name - Los Angeles Times
We finally know just how tall the tallest building in the world is. We've also learned that it's got a new name. As part of festivities Monday, marking the opening of what had until now been known as the Burj Dubai -- Arabic for "Dubai Tower ...
- International Women’s Day events: Equal rights, equal opportunities ... - Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: String of events including seminars, rallies, painting exhibitions and poetry recitations marked the International Women’s Day (IWD) in the capital city on Monday. Struggle for Change (SACH), a non-governmental organisation, organised a ...
- Last Call for Self-Published Authors Before Price Mark Up - PR-USA.net (press release)
Last Call for Self-Published Authors Before Price Mark UpPR-USA.net (press release)... online book marketing services provider, specializing in providing low-cost, high-quality marketing services for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books. ...
- A guide to not failing your New Year's resolution - East Oregonian
A guide to not failing your New Year's resolutionEast OregonianKaty is co-captain of Hermiston's Stardust Dance Team. She enjoys reading, writing poetry, and spending time with her friends and family.and more »
- Will Spit 4 Sol Food poetically celebrates black history - creative loafing
On Tuesday, Feb. 9, a different kind of event will be held at The Evening Muse. Will Spit 4 Sol Food will feature poets offering up poetry and spoken word over music by the house band and DJ. The event is being organized by Mike Kitchen (The Sol ...
- PIERCE COUNTY: Creative teens to get cash prizes, publication - Tacoma News Tribune
Pierce County teens can win cash and recognition through the 11th annual “Our Own Words†poetry and fiction writing contest, sponsored by the Pierce County Library System. Now through March 23, seventh- through 12th-graders living in or attending ...
- Stories from war - DesMoinesRegister.com
Stories from warDesMoinesRegister.comBut as they broke up into classes on style and characterization, poetry and point of view, description and dialogue, the weekend unfolded in a unique blend ...
- Randall: My recent best reads; send along your own - Abilene Reporter-News
Randall: My recent best reads; send along your ownAbilene Reporter-NewsFinally, a book of poetry, “Telling Tales of Dusk,†by North Carolina native Terri Kirby Erickson. I carry this in my purse to pull out in airports or ...and more »
- In search of the lost bohemians - Times Online
Roger Bristow was in his flat in Richmond, London, his eyes half closed in the sun, when he fancied he caught a glimpse of the Scottish artists Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde on the sofa, bickering over a bottle of whisky. “I knew then that I ...
- Here’s the best-of list for 2009 - Daily Comet
1. “Precious.†There were a million reasons the 1996 novel about an abused, pregnant and illiterate teen shouldn’t have worked on-screen. Then there was director Lee Daniels. He believed in the heroism of Claireece “Precious†Jones and in ...
- Rutherford Civil Rights Commission announces anniversary week schedule - NorthJersey.com
Rutherford Civil Rights Commission announces anniversary week scheduleNorthJersey.com... "A Powerful Noise" and "Freedom Writers," and talks and poetry readings with guest speakers. All of the events are free and no registration is required. ...
- Kwanzaa begins today, lasts until Jan. 1 - MLive.com
FLINT — A small table adorned with Kwanzaa essentials — a makeka, or straw mat; a libation cup and a kanara filled with candles — sat against a small wall of the Flint Children’s Museum Saturday afternoon. Storyteller Alfreda Harris was ready ...
- Small Talk: Joyce Carol Oates - Financial Times
Financial TimesSmall Talk: Joyce Carol OatesFinancial TimesThe author of more than 50 novels and 1000 short stories, as well as volumes of poetry and non-fiction, Joyce Carol Oates was born in Lockport, ...and more »
- Poetic Yearnings - Forward
Nextbook/Schocken, 368 pages, $25. The medieval poet Yehuda Halevi was a man consumed by yearnings, for women, for love, for the divine. All these found expression in Halevi’s prose and poetry. But perhaps none plagued the poet so much as his ...
- Is Sport Worth Dying For? Lessons From the Vancouver Olympics - Religion Dispatches
Is Sport Worth Dying For? Lessons From the Vancouver OlympicsReligion DispatchesA cursory review of Greek athletic literature, from Archaic poetry and Classical prose to Pausanias, a famous second-century Roman traveler who wrote a long ...
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