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- Twas the year 2008, when the world’s worst poet got his day - a ... - Times Online
He died penniless and blamed for some of the worst massacres perpetrated against the English language. But more than 100 years later, William Topaz McGonagall, otherwise known as the world’s worst poet, will achieve respectability of a sort when 35 ...
- Finding a new meeting ground in Mumbai (IE via Yahoo! India News)
Raj Thackeray's hostility towards migrants from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh might have drawn comparisons with his estranged uncle Bal Thackeray's opposition to Tamilians in the Sixties, but the new poster boy for Marathi pride is seeking to bridge that distance between Maharashtrian and Tamilians in Mumbai and forge what could be a beneficial political alliance.
- Poetic License - The Moscow Times
Poetic LicenseThe Moscow Times, Russia - 3 hours agoBy Sally Laird Novelist Brian Hall recreates an American poet's one-man mission to win over Khrushchev with a message of peace. By Jeremy Ventuso The World ...
- Bamboo – a great green solution (The Borneo Post)
DAIK cuts a bamboo stem down to about two feet long before filling it with chicken and water. Next to him is Debid igniting a piece of rubber and dropping it between dried bamboo stems neatly arranged to start a fire.
- Portrait of mother wins $1,000 prize (California Aggie)
The Ellen Hansen Memorial Prize is awarded annually to a UC Davis female student whose original creative project - using any medium, from painting to poetry or dance - best presents the theme of bravery and independence in women.
- Kylie turns 40 (Sydney Morning Herald)
It is a big birthday milestone for Kylie Minogue and thousands will wish her well. Barry Divola explains why.
- The Bellows perform at the last Haebangchon Festival, then called ... - 코리아타임즈
코리아타임즈The Bellows perform at the last Haebangchon Festival, then called ...코리아타임즈, South Korea - 1 hour ago``The bar owners all love music and they love the fact that their patrons come and have a fantastic time in their bars. This is their way of saying thank ...
- Many upstate NY religious retreats open to guests (AP via Yahoo! News)
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 Sunday service at the Sufi religious retreat.
- Ben Goertzel reports from Xiamen China - Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Ben Goertzel reports from Xiamen ChinaInstitute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, CT - 1 hour agoShe gave me a bunch of Chinese history books and stories and poetry to read, which made me fascinated with the culture. When I was 17, halfway thru my 3rd ...
- The Power of Music in the Ancient World - Newsblaze.com
Music has power. The power to move us to the heroic as in battle, to comfort in grief, to communicate with children too young for words, and to reach out in almost every religion to that which is sacred in us. This power was once in our history ...
- End-of-year school obligations drive parents batty - Forbes
My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys "won" (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle of a work ...
- Azaan Kamau Publishes In The Midst of My Blackness! - PRLog.Org (press release)
Azaan Kamau Publishes In The Midst of My Blackness!PRLog.Org (press release), Romania - 1 hour agoThe book has received excellent reviews thus far, and has been nominated for numerous prestigious awards. Ifalade Ta’Shia Asanti, author of two best-selling ...
- Review: 'Sing Me Back Home' strikes personal notes - Tampabay.com
Review: 'Sing Me Back Home' strikes personal notesTampabay.com, FL - 3 hours agoThe tortured poetry of Cash and Haggard, for example, deftly chronicled the lives of those behind bars. America's love-hate relationship with the bottle and ...
- White Plains kids and cops to stage production about diversity (The Journal News)
WHITE PLAINS - Seventeen-year-old high school junior Chris Watts, who is black, said he has never heard a racial slur directed at him.
- No Free Lunch, Even for Royalty - New York Times Blogs
No Free Lunch, Even for RoyaltyNew York Times Blogs, NY - 23 minutes ago(SJD) Even if you don’t have a son fighting in Iraq, even if you don’t read poetry, even if you think you are immune to the power of a mother’s lament ...
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