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- Can science explain why ABBA is so catchy? - Quick DFW
Can science explain why ABBA is so catchy?Quick DFW, TX - Jul 17, 2008"Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the little chants and songs we use to teach young children have choruses and ...
- Local Writer Will Read at Prestigious Canadian Literary Festival (East Aurora Advertiser)
It's an extraordinary accomplishment to be tapped to read your original works of fiction or poetry at the prestigious Eden Mills Writers Festival in Eden Mills, Ont. Only eight unpublished writers were named this year, winnowed from a bushel of hopefuls. But to be selected by the distinguished panel of judges to read your fiction AND poetry, well, that's unheard of. Until now, that is.
- Vacations for the soul - Cecil Whig
NEW LEBANON, N.Y. — At the former Shaker village, where the Taconic Mountains roll into the Berkshires and New York touches Massachusetts, Yaqin Aubert read aloud Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Judaic, Christian and Islamic texts during the ...
- Morocco to Host Poetry Competition - Alarab online
Alarab onlineMorocco to Host Poetry CompetitionAlarab online, UK - 41 minutes agoA declaration that the candidate has not already won any literary award for the collection or poem(s) submitted. The deadline for submission of entries is ...
- National Night Out Enters 25th Year - NBC 13
the evening outside with neighbors and officers. National Night Out involves thousands of communities in all 50 states. The Birmingham Police Department, Citizens of the City of Birmingham and the National Association of Town Watch will once again ...
- Casting a Spell on the Economy A sinister atmosphere spreads … - Slate
Economics and witchcraft: This is not a combination we'll be hoping for more of in the future. Tim Harford's " Undercover Economist " on the dangers of being a witch in a recession produced considerable unease and gloom, and that's just in someone ...
- Cash for communities - Gazette & Herald
Cash for communitiesGazette & Herald, UK - 21 hours agoBy Raeanne Nightingale » The Community Area Awards range from £510 towards promoting the reading, writing and performance of poetry, up to £23025 towards ...
- Howl Festival - Village Voice
Village VoiceHowl FestivalVillage Voice, NY - 9 hours agoTompkins Square Park goes Ginsberg again with the fifth annual Howl Festival, a three-day cultural smorgasbord of poetry, music, theater, painting, dance, ...
- It's rodeo time in Graham - Graham Leader
Graham LeaderIt's rodeo time in GrahamGraham Leader, TX - 1 hour agoOn Sunday, the events include a Cowboy Church service, more Indian events, cowboy poetry and music from RA Hill and the Repeat Offenders and North Texas ...
- Norman Dello Joio, 95; Pulitzer and Emmy Award-winning composer - Los Angeles Times
Norman Dello Joio, 95; Pulitzer and Emmy Award-winning composerLos Angeles Times, CA - 2 hours agoMuch of Norman Dello Joio's repertoire was inspired by sacred scripture, religious poetry and the lives of Christian saints. He sometimes worked medieval ...
- CC Professor David Mason wins Colorado Book Award for Poetry - Colorado College News
CC Professor David Mason wins Colorado Book Award for PoetryColorado College News, CO - 12 hours agoCC English Professor Jane Hilberry was awarded a 2006 Colorado Book Award for her book of poetry, "Body Painting." The Colorado Book Awards recognize ...
- I'm forswunk of Burns' dewy-eyed doggerel, says Paxman - Times Online
Times OnlineI'm forswunk of Burns' dewy-eyed doggerel, says PaxmanTimes Online, UK - 10 hours agoand that within his poetry were contradictions as rich as humanity itself: “What an antithetical mind!” he wrote. “Tenderness, roughness - delicacy ...
- Singer Laura Marling writes beyond her years - Chicago Tribune
Singer Laura Marling writes beyond her yearsChicago Tribune, United States - 4 hours ago"My favorite escape is the Bronte era, that dark, graceful, elegant old English way of life that I wish I was born into, and in a way believe I should have ...
- Musharraf's turbulent 9 years in power (AP via Yahoo! News)
Pervez Musharraf took power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant nation into the U.S.-led war on terror — an alliance that won him plaudits in the West but fueled anger at home.
- Beyond Time (Waconia Patriot)
Larry Christianson has paddled through Minnesota’s northland 47 times, 17 with his wife, Norma. He’s seen thousands of sunrises and sunsets; watched silently as the morning fog takes shape before being noticed, then witnessed its silent evaporation as the world begins to stir.
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