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- Parting gifts for Martin's mate - BBC News
BBC NewsParting gifts for Martin's mateBBC News, UK - 13 hours agoBy Jim Fitzpatrick What's the power of poetry? As a parting gift, Martin McGuinness presented Ian Paisley with a couple of hand-written poems. ...
- 'The Invention of Scotland' by Hugh Trevor-Roper - Los Angeles Times
In the mid-1700s, Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart, a Scot) failed to take the British crown. Scots, suffering from an identity crisis, started rummaging through manuscripts and oral traditions for a great national epic but couldn't find ...
- Duets: Judy and Quentin, from loss comes love (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Judy Blaseg has been helping Quentin Moore since Moore's mother passed away. Judy often makes sandwiches for Quentin in the afternoon, after he finishes classes at St. Thomas University.
- Celebrating independence and heritage - Sterling Journal-Advocate
STERLING — Singing cowboys, a blacksmith, an auctioneer, demonstrations of butter churning and crafts, donkey rides, snow cones, fundraising, costume contests and lots of food — these were just some of the offerings at the 2008 Logan County ...
- Senegal: Festival Celebrates Global Hip Hop (AllAfrica.com)
The organizers of Festa 2H, a Senegalese hip hop festival running in Dakar this week, want to make the West African capital city the capital of the hip hop empire.
- Chesapeake high school mourns two teens killed on I-664 - HamptonRoads.com
Students and teachers at Western Branch High School are remembering the two teens killed in a traffic accident over the weekend. Counselors were available today to help students grieving the loss of a student and a 2007 graduate who both died after ...
- Karadzic lived as New Age doctor (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted men, lived for years in a Belgrade suburb posing as a doctor of alternative medicine, hiding his famous face behind long hair, a bushy beard and thick glasses.
- Papers of acclaimed poet Anne Spencer moved from Lynchburg to UVA (WSLS Newschannel 10 Roanoke)
Box by box, pieces of history are rolled out of Anne Spencer’s home in Lynchburg. The renowned Harlem Reanaissance poet died in 1975, leaving behind pictures, personal notes and of course, poetry. Now they will head to UVA.
- Seacoast Events Calendar - Fosters Daily Democrat
The Seacoast African American Cultural Center, thru 8/9, African masks from the private collection of Dr. Ben Werner of Shelburne, Connie Bean Center, 135 Daniel Str., Portsmouth, 431-8290, 436-7629, 430-6027. Senior Art Porfolio exhbit, Newmarket's ...
- Garrett: Poetry in cleats (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise)
A certain up-and-coming boxer, a few years ago, coined the phrase: “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.” Perhaps there’s no better way to also describe third-year Bartlesville Doenges Ford Indian shortstop Stephen Garrett.
- Chicago's Tony haul - Chicago Sun-Times
It was an all but foregone conclusion that the 62nd annual Tony Awards ceremony from New York’s Radio City Music Hall Sunday night was going to be a grand affirmation of Chicago theater. Only two questions loomed: First, how many of the seven ...
- Qasmi’s death anniversary observed - The News - International
Qasmi’s death anniversary observedThe News - International, Pakistan - 2 hours agoHe was the publisher and editor of the prestigious literary journal "Funoon", which helped groom a whole generation of young writers. ...
- Quest for the best - Tribune
There is no end to a foodie’s search for the perfect taste. All stops can be pulled out to fulfil the craving for a dish. Pushpesh Pant sets out to find the best kebab, daal makhani and biryani and shares his views with the readers K ebab is the ...
- Glasgow University honours authors - The Herald
Glasgow University honours authorsThe Herald, UK - 1 hour agoShe won the Somerset Maugham Award for a poetry collection called Other Lovers, and the Guardian Fiction Prize for the novel Trumpet, before being awarded ...
- Phenomenal Women - Jamaica Gleaner
A native of Westmoreland, Jennifer Kerr migrated to the United States in the late '70s. She went on to graduate from the Highland Park Nursing School in Michigan, and worked as a rehabilitation nurse before being promoted to hospital administrator ...
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