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- Bangladesh mourns death of poet Samudra Gupta - New Kerala
Widely known by his pen name, Mannan, he worked for many newspapers since 1960. He was general secretary of Bangladesh' National Poetry Council. Among the many awards he received was one from the government of Tripura in India. His poems have been ...
- A traveler finds a home at SU (Winchester Star)
Winchester — Tracy Fitzsimmons lives by three basic tenets and one tradition.
- The Edmonton Folk Music Festival - VUE Weekly
VUE WeeklyThe Edmonton Folk Music FestivalVUE Weekly, Canada - 27 minutes ago“The last three years, I’ve been digging into Rwandan poetry. It has this thing about being brave—it describes a lot about beauty and bravery. ...
- Is Eloquence Overrated? (New York Times)
There remains a tantalizingly imprecise link between a great political speech and a great political career.
- Sunday North Bulletin Board - Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Sunday North Bulletin BoardPittsburgh Post Gazette, PA - 1 hour agoThe program will feature poetry, dance and a vocal duet. Lunch and a business meeting will follow. Call 412-761-8818. Valencia -- Valencia Presbyterian ...
- Alliteration improves memory performance - ScienceBlogs
Alliteration improves memory performanceScienceBlogs - 3 hours agoThen they repeated it again with prose passages, and again found the same effect. So even in a text passage where readers may not be as aware of the ...
- Was the 'Japanese Renaissance' lost at sea? (The Japan Times)
Last week, Japan celebrated Umi no Hi (Marine Day). First observed as a national holiday in 1996, Marine Day marks the anniversary of the return of Emperor Meiji from a boat trip to Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido on July 20, 1876. It is intended, as current Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura has said, "to thank the sea for its benefits and hope for the prosperity of Japan as an ...
- Persistence pays off for Ducks in win over Purdue - FOXSports.com
FOXSports.comPersistence pays off for Ducks in win over PurdueFOXSports.com - 4 hours agoWhat the Ducks lacked in poetry or precision, they made up for with sheer persistence. That, in the end, is perhaps the best way of summing up a mysterious ...
- Search Observer-Reporter - Washington Observer Reporter
Search Observer-ReporterWashington Observer Reporter, PA - 4 hours agoThe church is hosting Center Chautauqua, various one-night classes on topics such as challenges of Afghanistan, poetry writing, Wii nine-hole golf, ...
- Flash Fiction: Violeta - Artvoice
Flash Fiction: VioletaArtvoice, NY - 10 hours agoIn The Margins occasionally includes flash fiction alongside the poetry, features, interviews and book reviews. In The Margins seeks submissions of flash ...
- The Diary: Susan Irvine - Financial Times
The Esoterics is not the name of an art-rock band but what my friend Lucy and I call the particular kind of event we invite each other to. I’ll invite her to a forum on Jacques Derrida. She’ll invite me to hear Iain Sinclair’s bearded cohorts ...
- East Texas Author Pens Novel Speaking Out Against Abuse - Tyler Morning Telegraph
East Texas Author Pens Novel Speaking Out Against AbuseTyler Morning Telegraph, TX - 6 hours ago“The African American girl is a composite of two kids I taught in Mesquite,” she said. “The stepmother in the book is an English teacher. ...
- Meet the authors (The Columbus Dispatch)
Making appearances this week in central Ohio:
- Eulogising past glories - Nation
Socrates thought they were the voice of conscience. Iroquois Indians saw them as commands to be followed. Voltaire said they resulted from overeating. Freud defined them as repressed thoughts. Author Robert G. Allen wrote: ”The future you see is ...
- 'Brady Bunch' sis meets 'Andy of Mayberry' - Chicago Tribune
'Brady Bunch' sis meets 'Andy of Mayberry'Chicago Tribune, United States - Oct 6, 2008By Nina Metz | Special to the Chicago Tribune Maureen McCormick spent her teen years playing Marcia on "The Brady Bunch," a show that portrayed an idealized ...
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