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- Senator Joe Biden admits to Tourette Syndrome-like disease - The Spoof (satire)
Senator Joe Biden admits to Tourette Syndrome-like diseaseThe Spoof (satire), UK - 5 hours agoI had to memorize poetry and recite for like hours and hours in front of the mirror. It's pure hell, so when you're free to speak, you can't stop, you know? ...
- Education Briefs - Bolingbrook Sun
Bolingbrook High School will dedicate its new 5,000-square-foot Larry Bernard Fitness Center in a special ceremony Sept. 19. The facility is named in honor of retired Bolingbrook High School Athletic Director Larry Bernard, who spent his entire ...
- Shocker! CW uses sex to sell `Gossip Girls,' plus Fiddy's 99-cent Taco ... - Cleveland Plain Dealer
The CW is promoting the return of its racy teen drama, "Gossip Girls," with a series of racy print ads, paired ironically with real-world parental-advisory lines from TV critics. Comic-Con 2008 is underway in San Diego. Entertainment Weekly has the ...
- Pupils have a reason for their rhymes - Bendigo Advertiser
Pupils have a reason for their rhymesBendigo Advertiser, Australia - 11 hours agoMANY budding Banjos are scribbling away ahead of next month’s Rusty Nail bush poetry festival. The popular event, which carries a total of $1000 in prize ...
- Sanctuary hosts open house to show off brood - Record Searchlight
SHINGLETOWN -- Once again, the home of an elusive equine celebrity is throwing down the welcome mat. The Wild Horse Sanctuary -- refuge for some 300 wild burros and horses, including a white stallion named Phantom -- will hold its annual open house ...
- Michael Jackson's latest inspiration: poet Robert Burns? - Paste Magazine
Paste MagazineMichael Jackson's latest inspiration: poet Robert Burns?Paste Magazine, GA - 21 minutes agoRobert Burns lived in the late eighteenth century and is most familiar to the American audience because he penned the New Years’ anthem "Auld Lang Syne," ...
- Inspiration grew on allotment - Journal Live
Inspiration grew on allotmentJournal Live, UK - 1 hour agoSadly, Liz is turning her attention to poetry and writing now as her eyesight is failing, meaning she can’t attain the high standards she sets herself. ...
- September 2008 - ABC News Blogs
When you get home after a long hard day at work you might be tempted to leave the cleaning until tomorrow. You might decide you are too tired to cook and order takeout. If you did this every day, your home might look something like this…. Chris ...
- Will we celebrate a Paxman night in even 50 years? - The Herald
Will we celebrate a Paxman night in even 50 years?The Herald, UK - 2 hours agoIt is my experience that people passing judgment on Robert Burns's poetry, in the manner that Jeremy Paxman has done, do so from ignorance or prejudice. ...
- STARRY STARRY SIGHTS - New York Post
"Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night" Vincent van Gogh's life was no picnic, but he sure made painting look easy. There are no hard and fast rules in art, but that didn't stop van Gogh: He made up his own. He'd surround a moon with canary yellow ...
- Writing Outside The Margins hits Toronto's streets - Inside Toronto
Canada's Festival of Queer Literary Arts returns to the city on Sunday, Aug. 24. The all-day festival, Writing Outside The Margins, features an array of activities for everyone, including panel discussions, an open-mic stage, a poetry slam, children ...
- Conversation in Tobacco (Pittsburgh City Paper)
Every day the mills are fed Tiny wafers of their flesh. -- Ed Ochester, "The Miners at Revloc" He doesn't need to speak English, one word hanging like a pipe from an open lip, heavy to burden the chapped teeth, she understands him transparently, he is tobacco smoke, he clips his hand...
- Traditional African Ceremony Blesses Slavery Remembrance Day - RedOrbit
Traditional African Ceremony Blesses Slavery Remembrance DayRedOrbit, TX - 12 minutes agoBlack culture has had a big influence on popular culture in the UK and a series of dance, music and poetry performances showcased some of the best acts in ...
- Ruiz was 'community icon' at A&W for years (Hollister Free Lance)
Just about everyone in Hollister came into contact with Holly Ruiz during her 28 years as an employee at A&W Restaurant on South Street. "She was a community icon for almost 30 years," said her sister, Sandy Green.
- Alzahra University to honor Hakim Sanai - Tehran Times
Alzahra University to honor Hakim SanaiTehran Times, Iran - 1 hour agoSanai and criticism on his works, Sanai ideology and his mysticism, the poetry style of Sanai, Sanai’s wisdom and philosophy are the themes of the ...
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