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- Juneteenth to be celebrated Saturday - Yuma Daily Sun
Juneteenth is a celebration of the ending of slavery in the United States. President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was official Jan. 1, 1863, but the news did not reach Texas until June 1865. Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger read his general ...
- Feelin' The Hate With Toby Keith Nation - Huffington Post
Feelin' The Hate With Toby Keith NationHuffington Post, NY - 1 hour agoDoes Keith know that of the 468 people lynched in Texas, a whopping 339 were African-American (a partial list of black Texan lynching victims is here)? ...
- More to Juneteenth than jubilee - New Pittsburgh Courier
More to Juneteenth than jubileeNew Pittsburgh Courier, Pittsburgh - 3 hours agoJuneteenth today, celebrates African-American freedom while encouraging self-development and respect for all cultures. As it takes on a more national and ...
- Amazing story of a childhood ripped apart by abusive parents - Glasgow Daily Record
Amazing story of a childhood ripped apart by abusive parentsGlasgow Daily Record, UK - 30 minutes agoShe remembers: "I still had ambitions to study and make a better life for my son than the life I'd had. I'd always loved books and poetry and wanted to ...
- Berkshire Stages - Berkshire Eagle
Berkshire StagesBerkshire Eagle, MA - 2 hours agoBill Barclay's original music, set to Shakespeare's words and classic French troubadour poetry, is more intrusive than helpful. It all makes for a very long ...
- Literary leap (BBC News)
Kurdistan novelist strikes region's first major book deal
- Larue Barnes: A railroading family - Cleburne Times-Review
When Melvin H. “Sonny†Burt was growing up in Cleburne, he knew what time it was without owning a watch. Born May 2, 1940, in Cleburne to A. F. “Sparky†and Louella Eastus Burt, Melvin has early memories of hearing the Santa Fe Shops whistle ...
- Manzini Day Saturday - The Swazi Observer
Manzini Day SaturdayThe Swazi Observer, Swaziland - 11 hours agoThese include gospel groups, dance groups, poetry and lots more. The groups to thrill the Manzini folk include Mduduzi nezinceku Zamagawugawu, Frans Dlamini ...
- Pres. Lee Expresses His Agony to Inner Circle - Donga.com
President Lee Myung-bak has reportedly confessed his agony to his inner circle, as mass protests against American beef forced him to fire all of his presidential secretaries and back off from his key policies. A key confidante who wished to remain ...
- 'On a Day Like This' is oddly compelling - Deseret News
'On a Day Like This' is oddly compellingDeseret News, UT - 15 hours agoMichael Hofmann has written several of his own books of poetry and essays and has translated the works of a number of German writers, including Franz Kafka, ...
- Checkered Tartan - Wall Street Journal
For such a small country, Scotland seems to have more than its share of myths, heroes and fantastical legends. Stories of historical figures such as Robert Bruce or "Braveheart" William Wallace can feel as embroidered as those of the Loch Ness ...
- National poetry prizes awarded - Peterborough Examiner
National poetry prizes awardedPeterborough Examiner, Canada - 7 hours agoAdams, a close family friend. The actress had been ill for some time and had lived in the Actors Fund Home in Englewood since October, Adams said. ...
- Michael Coren: G.K. Chesterton, an icon to too few - Nationalpost.com
The New Yorker magazine recently got into all sorts of trouble for its satirical front cover cartoon depicting Barack Obama as an orthodox Muslim and his wife Michelle as a terrorist. Some people, it seems, simply can't take a joke. G.K. Chesterton ...
- The Homes of Poems - New Hampshire Magazine
The Homes of PoemsNew Hampshire Magazine, NH - 4 hours agoThe sight of Mt. Lafayette and Mt. Cannon will be enough to inspire poetry. While Frost lived here he wrote some of his most famous poems, including “The ...
- July June May April March February January 2007 - Nypress.com
You might be uneasy if a Google search of your name associated you with perverts. But that's not necessarily a bad thing for Queens City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., who is getting his name associated with such words in a good way. Today Vallone ...
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